by Eesha Williams | Jun 24, 2011 | News
Activists are asking the public to join them at a rally on June 23 and June 24 outside the federal court in Brattleboro, where the trial of Entergy v. Shumlin will be held both days from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Peter Shumlin is governor of Vermont. Entergy is the...
by Maureen Turner | Jun 30, 2011 | News
In 2002, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed an ambitious resolution to address the increasingly sticky problem of how to handle the city’s waste. The resolution called for the city to divert 75 percent of its solid waste from its landfill by 2010....
by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 30, 2011 | News
The fear that poor towns, regions or countries could become dumping areas for toxic material, including nuclear waste, was what led to protests against so-called “environmental injustice”—practices that embody the worst effects of the intrusion of...
by Maureen Turner | Jun 30, 2011 | News
Springfield has held the unhappy distinction of being the foreclosure capital of Massachusetts; last year, 595 properties were foreclosed on in the City of Homes, more than in any other municipality in the state, including Boston. Foreclosure rates have been slowing...
by Tom Sturm | Jun 30, 2011 | News
Easthampton’s Cellar Bar began as a subterranean extension of its glamorous upstairs sister, Venus—as a chic but casual complementary space. Venus, which opened in the summer of 2009, offered high-end, Latin- and French-inspired dinner menus created by...
