Marc Lefkowitz | 06/08/18 @ 11:00am | Posted in Local food system
Almost a decade on from Northeast Ohio’s food study, the one that made waves because it contained a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal) to shift 25% of the food we eat to local, one of the needs identified—to concentrate the many, small, regional farmers, urban gardeners and flea and farmer’s market purveyors as an entity—is finally being met. Food hubs could...
Marc Lefkowitz | 05/30/18 @ 3:00pm | Posted in Connecting to nature, Transportation
This year's entries into Greater Cleveland's Trails and Greenways Conference are inspiring—in imagination, but also, in the highest category, for achieving much sought after equity and improved access to low cost and low carbon forms of active transportation. Full disclosure: I participated with a panel of local transportation experts in selecting the 2018 winners.
Marc Lefkowitz | 05/29/18 @ 11:00am | Posted in Climate, Plants & animals
Stephen Palumbi considers himself an optimist, despite the scary data on ocean health that keeps washing up on his shore.
Marc Lefkowitz | 05/25/18 @ 11:00am | Posted in Climate
Few scientists would be willing to climb back into the cockpit of controversy as often as Michael E. Mann, a climatologist and geophysicist and current Director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, whose research on the causes of climate change contributed to the Nobel Prize awarded to the IPCC and Al Gore.
Marc Lefkowitz | 05/10/18 @ 1:00pm | Posted in Biking
This month marks the 62nd National Bike Month started by the League of American Bicyclists, the leading advocacy group for better conditions for biking. At the time of its launch in 1956, President Eisenhower was paving the National Highway System, which emptied a lot of city streets of cars, making it an ideal time for biking in the city.
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