What is a green job? - Grist
网页2008年12月12日 · Uncategorized. Share/Republish. Green jobs are living-wage, career-track jobs that contribute to preserving or enhancing environmental quality. They have some important characteristics: Green jobs ...
7 simple ways to make environmental change in your community
网页2016年10月4日 · First things first: It’s not about you. Or rather, it is, but it’s also about everyone else in your community — especially those most affected by the environmental inequities at play ...
Summer forecast: Extreme heat with a chance of rolling blackouts
网页2022年5月20日 · That means an unreliable grid. When there isn’t enough power, operators set off outages, rolling blackouts, to avoid long-term damage to the grid. About two-thirds of the U.S. is vulnerable to a ...
Federal judge rolls back key civil rights protections in Louisiana’s ...
网页2024年8月23日 · Federal judge rolls back key civil rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘sacrifice zones’ The decision could open the door for other industry-friendly states to follow suit.
The definitive climate fiction reading list – 20 books to explore cli ...
网页2021年9月28日 · The Swan Book, by Alexis Wright (2013): Aboriginal myths, legends, and reality intertwine in this wildly imaginative story set in Australia, which has been devastated by climate change and war. It ...
What’s next for Indigenous groups working to reclaim the ... - Grist
网页2022年1月13日 · The Black Hills — Paha Sapa in Lakota — is the geographical heart of the United States and also the site of one of the nation’s oldest land disputes. The federal government granted the land ...
Here's why this new fracking ban in the Northeast is a big deal
网页2021年3月3日 · The Delaware River Basin, a 13,539-square-mile area bisected by a sparkling river that stretches from New York’s Catskill Mountains to the Delaware Bay, is officially closed to fracking. Last ...
Prescribed burns can provide years of protection against wildfires
网页2023年11月10日 · Controlled burns can provide years of protection against wildfires, new study shows New research finds that "beneficial" fires can cut the risk of high intensity blazes by 64 percent.
Cape Wind wins billions in backing, launches offshore wind in
网页2013年3月27日 · A $2 billion agreement with Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ penned last week catapults Cape Wind to a commanding lead in the race to be the first offshore wind project in the U.S. When complete, 130 ...
LA's Watts neighborhood is being ‘revitalized’ — but the ... - Grist
网页2021年6月18日 · The historically majority-Black public housing site was at the center of both the Watts rebellion and the 1992 L.A. riots. Today the community is 64 percent Latino and 35 percent Black, but it’s ...