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2 weeks ago | 
earthisland.org | Zoe Loftus-Farren
The 2016-2017 Standing Rock protests aimed to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Photo by Lucas Zhao / Oceti Sakowin Camp.
Energy Transfer v.
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1 month ago | 
earthisland.org | Zoe Loftus-Farren
Of the estimated 10,000 chemicals used in beauty products, the US federal government has banned or otherwise restricted only 11. Photo by Jaime Street.
Pushing for Beauty Justice
The average adult in the United States uses somewhere around 12 personal care products a day, with women typically using more than men.
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1 month ago | 
earthisland.org | Zoe Loftus-Farren
We need to harness every emotion, every tool, we have to lift up those most vulnerable to the crises unfolding around us.
As we began to work in earnest on this issue in early January, wildfires were raging across Los Angeles, a city I once called home. The devastation left in their wake is staggering. At least 29 people died. An estimated 16,000 structures burned, including thousands of homes.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
earthisland.org | Zoe Loftus-Farren
A humpback whale entangled in fishing gear in Monterey Bay, California, last year. Photo by Robin Gwen Agarwal.
Tackling Whale Entanglements Along the California Coast
Every year, hundreds of thousands of whales, dolphins, sea turtles, and other animals die globally from entanglement in fishing equipment. Countless more are injured.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
earthisland.org | Zoe Loftus-Farren
Dreamscapes Rune Guneriussen’s temporary sculptures tease out the ways in which humans both love and disturb nature
While absorbing photos of Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen’s sculptures, I can’t help but daydream about stumbling upon one out in the wild. I imagine finding dozens of electrified table lamps on a lonely mountain peak, or bundles of brightly colored office chairs suspended from forest trees, or a skyscraper of books near a coastline.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
earthisland.org | Zoe Loftus-Farren
Photo by Cassandra Nelson / UNSOM.
Taking Big Plastic to Court
Plastics are pretty much inescapable these days, and that’s no mistake. The plastics industry has flooded our lives with countless single-use products, from bags, to food packaging, to drink bottles. Plastic now packs our landfills, litters our coastlines, and permeates our bodies.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
earthisland.org | Zoe Loftus-Farren
Labor organizer Dolores Huerta on all that unions have given us, and why environmentalists need to be organizing at the community level.
Dolores Huerta is a giant within the labor movement. She joined the cause seven decades ago, pivoting from her work as a teacher in California’s Central Valley to community organizing when she saw how her students and their families were struggling.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
earthisland.org | Zoe Loftus-Farren
Natural dyed wool. Image by Simon Greig.
Envisioning an Alternative Fiber Future
When it comes to clothing, we live in a system that tends to prioritizes quantity over quality; that favors items that can be worn a few times and discarded above those that are cared for and mended over time.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
earthisland.org | Zoe Loftus-Farren
Living in a Post-Chevron World
Forty years ago, the Supreme court established what would become a bedrock principle in administrative law. Known as Chevron deference, the principle required that courts defer to the expertise of federal agencies when interpreting any ambiguities in the laws they were tasked with implementing. In late June, six of the nine supreme court justices joined the majority opinion in a case overturning Chevron deference.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
earthisland.org | Zoe Loftus-Farren
Parenting inthe Plasticene Can we ever protect our kids from plastic?
A FEW MONTHS AGO, I got a midday text from my son’s daycare. He had fallen off a rocking horse and bitten his tongue. It was a pretty run-of-the-mill injury for an 18-month-old, but they wanted to give me a heads-up ahead of pick-up that day; apparently there had been a fair amount of blood. When I went to gather him after work, he greeted me with a big grin, and a slightly bloody teether in his mouth.
