Heerlen Gaining context for organizing in Heerlen Nord, we of course walked through kilometers of the neighborhood with more to come, but I also heard and watched a presentation on the history of the Limburg region and Heerlen as a central part of the Parkstad area. The timer clicked through various occupation periods from …
Category: Environment
The Green Bank for Low Income Communities
New Orleans The first thing we need to get clear is that the so-called “green bank” being touted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not a bank. It’s a big pot of money, about $27 billion, that is part of the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). In reality, it’s an investment …
The Heat May Force Political Climate Change in Red States
Marble Falls Everyone everywhere talks about the weather, but in the current global heatwave it’s topic number one in many places. The number of reports about heat are rising faster than the numbers on most thermometers. The eight highest annual temperatures since records have been kept are in the last eight years, for …