by Tobita Chow | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog, Climate, Economy, Election, Environment, Featured, Future of Work, Trade
Trump crows the “Phase One” trade agreement with China is a “promise kept” to his supporters to rebalance trade between the two nations. But it is really just a temporary truce in his trade war. This truce may not last long or deliver anything close to the...
by Tom Conway | Nov 26, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Environment, Featured, Future of Work
Photo credit: CSB.gov / cc The March 2005 fire and explosions at BP’s Texas City, Texas, oil refinery killed 15 contractors and injured 180 other workers in ways that will haunt them forever. Some lost limbs. Others suffered horrific burns, head injuries or wounds...
by Jill Richardson | Sep 10, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Environment, Featured, Immigration
Photo credit: U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Stanton Donald Trump discusses immigration as if the benefits of residence in the U.S. are a pie. When immigrants get more, the people who were already here get less. In general, that’s not true. When...
by James Mumm | Aug 20, 2019 | Climate, Environment, Featured
Reeling from grim news about climate change, I took a break this summer to recharge my own batteries and see if today’s best speculative fiction writers could imagine us into a better future. There is a growing genre of climate science fiction, or “cli-fi,” which...
by Lois Gibbs | Aug 8, 2019 | Climate, Environment, Featured
“The New York State Commissioner of Health issued an order of evacuation of pregnant women and children under the age of two living in the Love Canal Neighborhood.” That was on August 2, 1978, when the first emergency action was taken to evacuate families from Love...
