This Fixer wrote the book on addressing poverty, wastewater, and climate change in rural America
A conversation with Catherine Flowers, author of “Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret.”
Black Grandmothers Feed their Communities, and Pass on Food Traditions—Online
On a recent Saturday night in September, Mildred Braxton did something she never thought she’d do: she taught 20 or so others how to make...
Nutrition Education is Helping Low-Income Families Eat Healthier
In addition to math and reading lessons, many third graders in Alabama’s low-income communities learn about nutrition from animated characters like Shining Rainbow, who loves...
By Switching to a Plant-Based Diet, Eric Adams Is ‘Healthy at Last’
More than 12,000 pages of US government documents show military operations contaminating the Pacific with radioactive waste, nerve agents, and chemical weapons like Agent Orange
Mapping the disparities of Chicago’s unequal pandemic
Draw a map of Chicago and shade the areas with more poverty, pollution and coronavirus. It will start to look like being Black is a...
Op-ed: The Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods Is Bad News for Our Health
Humans (and our ancestors) have been processing food for at least 1.8 million years. Roasting, drying, grinding, and other techniques made food more nutritious, durable,...