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The Counter is now part of @Grist. For the latest news on the intersection of climate and food, visit https://t.co/sLG1zLxPzR.
New York, NY
Joined January 2014
We have some news to share: The Counter is being brought back as a vertical within @grist, a nonprofit media organization that has been on the climate beat for 25 years. The details here:
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Two new reporters will lead the organization's agriculture coverage.
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California grants its livestock industry huge subsidies to capture methane before it reaches the air. Some believe the state must reconsider how it calculates carbon intensities for dairy digester fuels. @TheCounter
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Even with the best intentions, restaurant mentorship programs have an uncanny ability to replicate existing industry problems. Without deliberate adjustments, they tend to reinforce power imbalances between established, senior mentors and junior mentees.
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Even with the best intentions, restaurant mentorship programs have an uncanny ability to replicate existing industry problems. Without deliberate adjustments, they tend to reinforce power imbalances between established, senior mentors and junior mentees.
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https://t.co/LxbU2l9pzY Digesters only solve a small part of the methane emissions in the livestock and dairy sector, and only in a small part of production practices. We require other measures that target emissions more directly, for a wider group of settings.
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California is treating factory farm gas systems at dairy farms like they are devices that suck carbon from the air.
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"Your car is killing coho salmon." Painful to see the final @thecounter newsletter, as full of good work as ever.
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Pacific Northwest rains wash the toxic chemical that weatherizes your car tires into the watershed—a death sentence for salmon. The Nisqually Tribe and researchers are trying to find a solution.
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Via @TheCounter: After a chain grocer closes down, they sometimes use lease provisions called "restrictive covenants" to ensure no supermarket or other food business can ever occupy the space. These covenants help create food deserts. From @LelaNargi:
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Supermarket chains can keep low-income communities from easy access to food, with a dastardly (but legal) provision they write into lease agreements.
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“I felt there was no one I could turn to.” Research suggests #racism should be treated as a matter of public #health. But the unique stressors faced by Black farmers remain poorly understood. @imsafiyacharles reports via @TheCounter: https://t.co/ZmIgGHXHzM
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Debt, racism, and fear of displacement are driving an overlooked public health crisis among Black farmers.
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American dining is an oligopoly dominated by chains | The Counter https://t.co/dmXxb79YWs
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How California climate regulators are distorting progress on greenhouse gas emission reductions while allowing polluters to yield lucrative profits:
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California is treating factory farm gas systems at dairy farms like they are devices that suck carbon from the air.
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How California climate regulators are distorting progress on greenhouse gas emission reductions while allowing polluters to yield lucrative profits:
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California is treating factory farm gas systems at dairy farms like they are devices that suck carbon from the air.
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SB 464 is unlikely to move this year, but the groups behind #Food4All will continue to work on expanding California’s social safety net to include all undocumented immigrants. Read more from @TheTinaVasquez:
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Lawmakers and advocates are urging Gavin Newsom to remove immigration and age restrictions from the state’s food assistance program.Â
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Via @TheCounter: Your car is killing coho salmon Just over a year ago, scientists in Washington identified 6PPD-quinone, which is used to weatherize car tires, as a chemical that is acutely toxic to coho salmon. READ:
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Pacific Northwest rains wash the toxic chemical that weatherizes your car tires into the watershed—a death sentence for salmon. The Nisqually Tribe and researchers are trying to find a solution.
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Today is the Counter's last official day of operations, but we'll continue to showcase some of our final stories here through the end of next week. (In case you missed the news: https://t.co/19qziY79nR)
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After nearly seven years publishing some of the most provocative and memorable food stories in journalism, The Counter will cease publication on May 20.
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California is double-counting millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the dairy sector, distorting its progress on climate change. New investigation, in partnership with @grist:
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California is treating factory farm gas systems at dairy farms like they are devices that suck carbon from the air.
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Today is the Counter's last official day of operations, but we'll continue to showcase some of our final stories here through the end of next week. (In case you missed the news: https://t.co/19qziY79nR)
thecounter.org
After nearly seven years publishing some of the most provocative and memorable food stories in journalism, The Counter will cease publication on May 20.
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Advocates and lawmakers in California wanted the new state budget to reflect a seemingly radical idea: Everyone should have access to food–undocumented or not. 🧵👇 https://t.co/6R8a3CCd7p
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Lawmakers and advocates are urging Gavin Newsom to remove immigration and age restrictions from the state’s food assistance program.Â
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