Dr. King as a Blueprint for Activist Ethnography
As a burgeoning anthropologist, I have had to come to terms many times over with the history of the discipline. The use of words like “primitive” or “exotic” used to describe what we see as the “other”— A way in which to remove ourselves from the reality of our shared humanity.
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Drinking Water Matters - Solving the Trickle Down Problem
Help Us Protect Drinking Water
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director It's Drinking Water Week – a good time to think about the big picture when it comes to drinking water challenges. One part of the picture that can’t get enough attention is what I call the “Trickle Down” problem. If you’re
Safe Chemicals, please
Take Action for Safe Chemicals Today!
By Cindy Luppi, New England Director May is here and for many, the top thing on our minds is spring and whether the Celtics can continue their tear in playoffs (Rondo!) or if the Sox will ever turn it around in the Valentine years (and, if you’re not from NewA Step in the Right Direction on Hydraulic Fracturing and Drinking Water
Let's keep diesel out of fracking!
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director As experts on the Safe Drinking Water Act, we weren’t at all thrilled when Congress exempted hydraulic fracturing from the law back in 2005. EPA's draft policy around fracking operations that use diesel addresses the only
Coloradans welcome “Flat Earth Society” members of Congress
Welcome, Flat Earth Society
By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director
Groups call for energy reality check, end of excessive taxpayer handouts to Big Oil
Several Colorado groups took members of Congress to task today over their failed energy policies, political rhetoric, and ties to industryThe Dirty Water Caucus at it Again
Who are they protecting?
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Coordinator On Wednesday the House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to a spending bill that would block the Administration from finishing new Clean Water Act polices to protect streams, lakes, wetlands and other water resources
Buy More Stuff for Earth Day? Buy local, organic, and fair-trade certified if you're going to buy, but consider not buying anything at all, too.
What are you doing to celebrate Earth Month?
By Jonathan A. Scott, Communications Director Everyone wants to be able to “do something” for Earth Day. For anyone who’s too young (or too old) to remember, this is the annual celebration whose first incarnation, April 22, 1970 helped to galvanize and
We All Live Downstream - Clean Water Action Podcast
Welcome to We All Live Downstream: a Clean Water Action Podcast available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
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