Recycling and Up Cycling: Rethinking How We Get Rid of Plastic

Maria Esponda04-02-2019

Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao met at a school recycling meeting when they were in the eighth grade. It was then that they realized just how bad our plastic proble... Read More

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Cancer, Children and The Environmental Crisis

Blindfold Archives04-12-2014

A Look from Sandra Steingraber’s “Raising Elijah” By Michael Galvis More than 40 percent of Americans will contract cancer in their lifetime. It is the se... Read More

Environment

Snuffing the Red Light: Urban Light’s Mission

Blindfold Archives01-12-2013

by Derek Hockenbrough Two qualities immediately struck me about her the moment that I met Alezandra Russell: an immensely empathetic wisdom and an unstoppable ... Read More

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Liberation Ecology in Haiti

Blindfold Archives01-12-2013

by Angela Malson Dr. Sasha Kramer is a liberation ecologist working in Haiti to transform what some view as merely waste into a useful component of our natural... Read More

Environment

New York City: The Concrete Jungle Turns Green

Blindfold Archives10-12-2012

by Brittany Farmer Inhaling gyro in Rockefeller Center, you stare out at the yellow cabs honking, gassing, crawling bumper to bumper, wrenched in tight by ... Read More

Environment

Miami Living: It’s Not All You Think

Blindfold Archives05-12-2012

by Kamla-Kay McKenzie With collages of bikini bodies sprawled on sparkling beaches, nightclubs hyped by the presence of a jet-setting celebrity, and notabl... Read More

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Gadget and Strategy of the Electric Vehicle War

Blindfold Archives05-12-2012

by Derek Hockenbrough In a society whose heart beats thick with obsidian oil, a man stands on the front line carrying the flailing banner of the electric army.... Read More

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Living What Feels Right

Blindfold Archives05-12-2012

by Brenda Nieves Imagine having no rent or mortgage to pay. Imagine traveling at will wherever the spirit moves you to — spending the day with your childre... Read More

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Seeing Through Deke’s Eyes

Blindfold Archives05-12-2012

Ohio Teenager Follows a Different Path in Exploring the World by J.R. Plate We frequently hear about people who are a product of their environment. Most often... Read More

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Something for Nothing: America’s Roads to Nowhere

Blindfold Archives05-12-2012

“The American people must realize we are going to have to pay to fix this system.” – Robert Puentes, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Ins... Read More

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