At about this time last year, we had a conversation here about Nestlé’s aggressive push to extract, bottle and sell Michigan’s fresh water. Well, as you may have heard, the Swiss company now has plans to nearly double the amount of groundwater they’re taking to 210 million gallons a year, and, as you might expect, […]
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How you can stop Nestlé from taking our water
Posted in Environment, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged anti-environment, Big Rapids, bottled water, Carrie Monosmith, drinking water, environmental injustice, environmental protection, EPA, Evart, ground water, Ice Mountain, injection wells, Lara Zielin, MEDQ, Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, natural resources, Nestle, Nestle Waters North America, Peggy Case, potash, SALT, water 16 Comments
The people of Flint tell their story to Congress, EMU faculty vote “no confidence” against their Regents, and The Black Opera contemplates a multimedia hip-hop tour to sow the seeds of social regeneration… on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack
When people call the Saturday Six Pack “the most ambitious little program on midwestern micro-watt AM” it’s shows like the one we have coming up this weekend that they’re thinking of. We’re not only going to be joined in the studio by hip-hop artist Jamall Bufford, who will be talking about the new multimedia project […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Ypsilanti Also tagged Black Nirvana, Donald Trump, Eastern Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents, EMU, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Flint, Flint water crisis, higher education, hip hop, Howard Bunsis, Jamall Bufford, Judith Kullberg, lead, Lead and Copper Rule, lead poisoning, Lee Anne Walters, Legionnaires' disease, multimedia, Neutral Zone, no confidence, Parents for Nontoxic Alternatives, performance art, race, rap, the corporatization of higher education, Virginia Tech, Yanna Lambrinidou 6 Comments
As much as I like and respect John Dingell, we shouldn’t let him off the hook for dragging his feet on global warming
Congressman John Dingell today announced that he would be retiring at the end of his current term, joining the likes of Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf, both of whom have announced their departure from the limelight in recent days. (I suspect that the three men did not coordinate their announcements, but you never know.) I […]
Posted in Environment, Global Warming, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Alec Baldwin, automotive industry, Civil Right Act, Clean Air Act, Debbie Dingell, Endangered Species Act, fuel economy, Global Warming, health care reform, John Dingell, Obamacare, Rebekah Warren, retirement, Shia LaBeouf, tea party, universal health care 12 Comments