"When our native communities come together and understand who they really are and where their power really is, it's not in some paper the government hands you. It's in the ceremonies and songs you sing," he says. https://t.co/6Mpk2dDFSa
Nearly seven months after floodwaters swamped America's fourth-largest city, the extent of the environmental assault is beginning to surface, while questions about the long-term consequences for human health remain unanswered. via @HoustonChron https://t.co/XytW2d45aM
Whistleblower Joe Rannazzisi says drug distributors pumped opioids into U.S. communities -- knowing that people were dying -- and says industry lobbyists and Congress derailed the DEA's efforts to stop it. via @CBSNews https://t.co/Gk6Ec3wusZ
"I was not only determined to show everyone how capable people with (dis)abilities are, but my mission is to open production facilities across the country and employ thousands of (dis)abled people!" https://t.co/9YyxKXdcoQ
"We aim to implement a blanket ban by 2030 to significantly reduce plastic waste that pollutes the ocean and also gets into the food chain to affect human health," said Lai Ying-yaun, a Taiwanese Environmental Protection Agency official, in a statement. https://t.co/6L8vZUmmPO
"...the idea that the health of the economy has no correlation to an employed, well educated, healthy, highly skilled population is dubious and politically & economically short-sighted." ~ @_ClaireConnelly https://t.co/MZNBBdWDLs
Are you the founder of an early-stage startup with a strong social and/or environmental impact? Apply to @TarmacTX incubation program sponsored by @3M https://t.co/ZPyuy1brOC #incubator#socent#impact
After their removal a decade ago during renovations, two Surrealist murals by Allen Saalburg are conserved and back on view at the Split Rock Golf House in Pelham Bay Park, the Bronx. via @hyperallergic https://t.co/Wi7SiWTONt?
The most authoritative study of its kind reveals how fracking is contaminating the air and water – and imperiling the health of millions of Americans https://t.co/tn2aszbYbv
Banksy Blitz Continues in NYC with New Murals in Brooklyn: Two murals by the secretive British street artist have appeared at a former gas station in Midwood. via @hyperallergic https://t.co/XdTn7xb5Jf
"The Nature Conservancy and the government of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo have created a trust that will purchase the first-ever insurance policy for a coral reef, Oceans Deeply reports." via @futurism https://t.co/QjYYrcgcS7
Disney has announced that it’s donating $1 million to the Boys & Girls Club Of America to help expand its STEM programs. Disney’s money will also be used to establish a STEM Center Of Innovation in Oakland, California. https://t.co/Kp2sgg4XD9
“This is not just about us. ... When we’re together marching, this is not going to be different races, different generations ― this is going to be a unified people standing together against those who are trying to ignore us.” https://t.co/hYKo687VAj
@tightshift needs your help! A foundation has committed $75k for healing and training IF they are able to raise $30k for a truck and moving insurance by May 1. Can you chip in and help spread the word? https://t.co/SlryAI6tZU #workercoops