With Earth Day approaching, it’s important to spotlight our plastic pollution problem – as well as the communities taking the lead in reining it in.
The fossil fuel and plastic industries have long wielded enormous political influence, funding lobbyists and leveraging campaign donations to protect their bottom line.
The event will be held November 20 at the Northampton library from 6-7:30 p.m. to unearth community insights from Bucks County residents and community-serving organizations to support the design of a Climate Justice Fund.
Reimagine what holiday giving and celebrating with family and friends looks like.
It isn’t easy buying “green.”
We need to expand our political imaginations of what’s possible and reframe the participatory narrative on climate change – before it’s too late.
Newtown Township is considering a ban on certain single-use plastics and residents are encouraged to attend a special meeting Monday to learn more and show their support.
The carcinogen Vinyl Chloride that the train carried is used to make PVC – one of the most common and environmentally damaging plastics.
ECHO Systems Founder Alisa Shargorodsky launches her monthly column to prescribe remedies to help cure our overreliance on plastics – which is poisoning ourselves and the planet.
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
