Climate Impacts of Plastic with Leann Leiter and Jed Alegado (A-Z Impacts Series)
Our fourth and final Tackling the A-Z Impacts of Plastic Webinar will take place on Tuesday, August 18 and Thursday, August 20 as we take a closer look at the impact of plastic production on our climate. Guest speakers for the month of August include Leann Leiter, Earthworks’ Pennsylvania & Ohio Field Advocate and certified…
Read MoreA Z Impacts of Plastic on Environment with Wilma Subra and Justin Nobel
Meet Justin Nobel, one of the guest speakers for Tuesday’s Tackling the A-Z Impacts of Plastic Webinar. Justin Nobel writes on issues of science and the environment for Rolling Stone, Audubon, Oxford American, DeSmog, and other US magazines, investigative sites and literary journals. His work has been published in Best American Travel Writing 2011, and…
Read MoreRebuilding the Leader Directory in 2020
Let’s face it, the Leader Directory has been a challenge – so we’re rebuilding it from the ground up. You may have joined, set up your profile, and then realized it was a bit slow and challenging to find your way around. The map never quite worked the way it should, and you maybe weren’t…
Read MoreCommunity Health Impact Assessment – Bringing Community Data to the Table
EHP’s Community Health Impact Assessment (HIA) revolves around one central question: Do you have enough information to determine that a particular shale gas site is safe enough for your community? EHP’s do-it-yourself HIA is a structured way to bring together data on your community related to: expected emissions from a shale development site potential health risks…
Read MoreEconomic Impacts of Plastic (A-Z Series)
As industry looks to produce more plastic and expand fracking to do so… It’s imperative that we understand the economic costs. Not only to be prepared and protect ourselves, but to expose the false promise of prosperity through expanded plastic production. These promises hide the consequences to health, environment, and local communities whose economies are…
Read MoreHealth Impacts of Plastic (A-Z Series)
If you live in the watershed of the great Ohio River, most of Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, the future of your water and air is in the balance and now is the time to act. There are multiple proposed (and current) industrial threats in the region – all expanding the extraction…
Read MoreLines Between Issues Fade ~ From the Gas Fields to the City, Black Lives Matter
The Halt the Harm network does this work because we love people. We love activists and the environment. As a movement, we don’t shy away from hard and uncomfortable work. Pollution and threats to people who we know and harms that will fall on those we don’t know anger us. We believe in social change…
Read MoreAmity and Prosperity Now, a Discussion with Eliza Griswold
Join us for a discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold, author of Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America. powered by Crowdcast A contributing writer to the New Yorker and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University, Eliza will be our guest for a conversation about…
Read MoreHow to Involve Your Kids in Protecting Their Environment
Last year a group of 40+ kids traveled to Harrisburg, from all over Pennsylvania to bring letters and a pledge to the governor’s office. They created costumes, made friends, and even caught the governor trying to sneak away from his office. In this webinar you will see an example of how you, as parents and…
Read MoreShane Capra, Beyond Extreme Energy
Thank you Shane Capra and Maple O. for sharing a handful of links (including a 15 minute video about FERC) from Beyond Extreme Energy. In the replay video from this week’s networking session you’ll get: a 15 minute overview of the efforts to disrupt FERC’s approval of oil and gas infrastructure projects current work, including…
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