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First Poem Dedicated to Browngirl Going Green
I’m so honored that my friend and fellow Pinay writer Jean Vengua was inspired to write a poem for me after reading about my recentsustainably-raised-pig purchase. She posted it on her own blog,Local...
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BrownFolks on the Trail
About a year or so ago, I started a Facebook group called, unsexily but accurately, ‘Bay Area People of Color Hiking Group’. My partner, Henry, and I do a fair amount of hiking in the beautiful and...
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Freedom Food
I found these two sites while I was poking around on the Internet, and it made me feel hopeful for the possibilities for the food industry in this country. The Black Farmer is, indeed, a Black farmer...
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More Brownfolks Going Green
Thanks to fellow blogger Dianne Glave for giving me the heads-up on two other people of color who are going green and writing about it. It’s been inspiring and cool for me to find these kindred spirits...
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“All Shades of Green”: Bloggers Write About the Environment
One of my blog posts is featured in the Scratch-n-Sniff ‘All Shades of Green’ blog carnival, which is part of the Diversity in Science series. My blogging buddy Dianne Glave, the author of the...
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Inspiring: Going Green (and Super-Cool) in Hong Kong
I get really tired—as I’m sure we all do—of only focusing on all the bad stuff that’s happening in the world, around the environment, politics, etc. So it’s rejuvenating to find inspiring stories like...
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Black Man (Trying to) Go Green
I don’t agree with all of President Obama’s clean energy recommendations, I did appreciate many aspects of his speech on the BP oil spill and the tragic aftermath in the Gulf of Mexico. As I watched...
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More People of Color Voices on the BP Oil Spill
Just to be clear that I know that President Obama’s voice is not the only—nor the most important—voice on the BP oil spill. Here’s a great video from the folks at the Gulf Restoration Network profiling...
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My Review of the Karate Kid Remake
Ok, this is a bit of a stretch for a blog about environmentalism and people of color, but I thought some of my readers here might enjoy this post at my other blog about the new Karate Kid movie. Would...
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Yes, I am Thinking and Saying Things, Just Not Here
As a person of color, a writer, an activist, as a long-time resident of Oakland and someone who is Bay Area born-and-bred, I have some strong opinions and feelings about yesterday’s verdict in the...
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