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Author: Elizabeth McGowan

Sculptor Lenore Thomas created a series of bas relief panels depicting the preamble of the Constitution on the original Greenbelt Center School in Maryland the 1930s. Each one reflects the era’s social and economic concerns.
Posted on March 13, 2017March 14, 2017 renewal

Just Transition: Just What Does It Mean for Labor and Energy?

The nation’s momentum-gaining move from dirty coal to solar, wind and other renewable energy sources is a boon for clean air and clean water. But...

December 2016; hawk I reported to City Wildlife
Posted on February 5, 2017November 14, 2017 e-cology

Rough Going: Winter isn’t the only challenge for urban birds of prey

It has been more than a month since I first spotted him looking so vulnerable. And I knew something was awry when I was able...

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E-cology Reports

Ingenuity + money = flourishing enterprises on Central Appalachia coalfields April 24, 2019 by Elizabeth McGowan - Whitesburg, Ky.—If hollowed out minelands and communities of Central Appalachia are to be restored in some fashion, then the vision for the region’s future has to extend beyond infrastructure for federal prisons and natural gas pipelines. That’s what Eric Dixon of the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center says he hears as he crisscrosses the area. "Communities… Read more >
Black lung disease strikes 1 in 5 longtime coal miners in Central Appalachia April 24, 2019 by Elizabeth McGowan - Strike up a conversation in southeastern Kentucky and it likely will be with somebody whose father, uncle, brother, son or grandfather has died of black lung disease. A 21st century resurgence of what’s also called coal workers’ pneumoconiosis has alarmed health experts. The fatal disease now afflicts one in five coal miners who has spent… Read more >
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