Tag: Hamida Kinge
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Not Just Another Bedbugs Story
Bedbugs are everywhere – including in what seems like every other news story. But experts say journalists are missing the boat. (keep reading…) -
Industrial Evolution
Nowhere is Brooklyn’s industrial past more evident than in the Gowanus Canal, which the EPA has just named a Superfund site. Hamida Kinge interviews Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Tia Lessin about the designation’s impact on the neighborhood where she works. (keep reading…) -
Curb That Smog
Hamida Kinge interviews the American Lung Association’s Janice Nolen, who weighs in on the E.P.A.‘s recent efforts to impose limits on a persistent, dangerous urban nemesis: smog.
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Best of the Web, 2009
A look back at the year’s finest reports, interviews, slideshows and feature articles from americancity.org. (keep reading…) -
New York Has a Drinking Problem
Environmental columnist Hamida Kinge looks at two threats to New York State’s drinking water—liquid gasoline in Long Island, and radioactive Marcellus Shale upstate—and wonders whether the state is doing enough to keep toxic water out of the tap. (keep reading…) -
Change is Tasty
Hamida Kinge reports from The Feast, a social innovation conference in New York City that brought together ambitious philanthropists and entrepreneurs from a number of industries to talk about their goals, beliefs and “a ha!” moments. (keep reading…) -
Don’t Trouble the Waters
Hamida Kinge on how emissions-lowering technology at U.S. coal-fired power plants has led to serious water pollution problems—and what the EPA is doing about it. (keep reading…) -
Revisiting Vertical Farms
Sunday’s New York Times featured an op-ed by Columbia University’s Dickson Despommier about his idea that “vertical farms” could feed our cities and save our planet. Hamida Kinge interviewed Depommier in February about the idea. (keep reading…) -
Penny Pinchers
A new law proposed by the EPA to dramatically lower toxic ship emissions close to the nation’s coastlines only costs consumers pennies. Tipping Point columnist Hamida Kinga asks what took the feds so long to propose it. (keep reading…) -
Death March for Livelihood
Hamida Kinge reviews The Garden, a film about a vast community garden in Los Angeles that fell victim to a land ownership squabble. (keep reading…) - Page 1 of 2 1 2 >
