Environment & Sustainability

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Boston’s Food Forests Take Root as a Climate Equity Strategy

A decade of organizing has turned trash-strewn lots into edible parks. Now Boston is expanding food forests as part of its climate action plan. By Ryan Krugman “Edible forests” are popping up in Boston. Scattered across the city, once-empty lots…

Lawmakers Scrutinize Secretive Process Behind Energy Bill Hikes

In a state Senate hearing on spiraling energy bills, consumer advocates lamented the closed-door negotiations at the heart of New York’s ratemaking process. By Colin Kinniburgh, New York Focus This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news…

How disasters change our love lives — for better and for worse

Kyle and Ashley Johnson are one of those “opposites attract” kind of couples. She’s a Tennessee mountain girl with a penchant for “screamo” music, raised to buckle down for winter with extra canned goods and a rifle on hand. Kyle,…

The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet

In 2015, nearly two dozen American youth sued the federal government, alleging that the United States violated their constitutional rights by facilitating the burning of fossil fuels and allowing greenhouse gas emissions to rise to dangerous levels. Their case, known…

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