Some Weekend Reading
Friday links for your enjoyment
Have a nice weekend!
On the origins of Earth Day and DSA’s new Green New Deal campaign phase (by me)
A wonderful piece on how to make friends (by Clare Coffey)
Keep your eyes on the South: “Americans are never as far from the graves we dig for other people as we hope.” (by Tressie McMillan Cottom)
My favorite city is doing exciting things with social housing (by Katelin Penner)
A fascinating story about the man who beat roulette (by Kit Chellel)
Promising experiments in agroecology in Haiti (by Cantave Jean-Baptiste and Steve Brescia)
The Biden administration approved a massive oil project in Alaska seemingly without a fight. “We ought to approach the administration’s claims of powerlessness with skepticism.” (by Hannah Story Brown)
We need a Federal Public Power program (by Johanna Bozuwa, Sarah Knuth, Grayson Flood, Patrick Robbins, and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò)
A new study found that very small increases in exposure to particulate air pollution (mainly from burning fossil fuels) can lead to large increases in risk of dementia (by Kate Yoder)