The Fortune of Green Training
A few years before I started law school, I was a GED tutor volunteer at the Fortune Society, a non-profit organization that helps formerly incarcerated persons transition into society.?? Obtaining meaningful employment has been a strong…
Mug Share!
As I entered my school???s pantry the other day, there was a small congregation of students near the coffee machine.?? Amidst morning greetings and casual banter, I noticed my colleagues using reusable mugs, disposable paper cups,…
Climate Change and Poverty
When you think about climate change, you probably don’t think about an organization like the NAACP. Or about race and poverty. Jacqueline Patterson, Director of the NAACP Climate Justice Initiative, would like to change that. Through…
Rivers Are People, My Friend
In his dissent to Sierra Club v. Morton, Justice Douglas stated, ???The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it. Those people who have a meaningful relation to that…
Environmental Justice and the SEC: Transparency Empowers Citizens
The term environmental justice often calls to mind, at least to me, urban and more localized settings, rather than a global and international scale. However, it is a multifaceted front that heeds many forms of action,…
Professor Bratspies to Speak on Environmental Democracy
CUER Executive Director and CUNY Law School Professor Rebecca Bratspies will be??a speaker at the 5th Polar Law Conference which??is being held at the??Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, in??Rovaniemi, Finland on 6-8 September 2012.??…
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Environmental Justice
As Hurricane Isaac bids farewell to Louisiana, I cannot begin to imagine the sadness of those who lost their homes.?? In the backdrop of an impending hurricane in the south, Director Benh Zeitlin of the movie…
The Dirty Side of Land Reclamation: NY’s Inequitable Brownfield Cleanup Program
The government watchdog group Environmental Advocates of New York (???EANY???) this summer issued a scathing analysis of tax credits under New York State???s Brownfield Cleanup Program (???Program???). This report is not the group???s first criticism of…
Just beyond the built environment–WHALES!!
Los Angeles has to be among the most modified human environments on the planet.????A massive, sprawling urban center, LA suffers from many environmental challenges, not the least of which is very bad air quality, particularly…
Appreciating Green Buildings
I??have??been to??my??share of LEED??certified buildings over the past few years, which also includes my own school, CUNY??Law.?? My awe over the features of green buildings has never moved passed aesthetics.?? I might as…
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