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Author: Erin Elizabeth

Jimmy Carter Built a Solar Farm in His Hometown and it Now Powers Half of the Entire City

Jimmy Carter Built a Solar Farm in His Hometown and it Now Powers Half of the Entire City

Posted by | Mar 2, 2020 | , , ,

Jimmy Carter was way ahead of the rest of America when he put solar panels on the White House. On June 20, 1979, he made a proud proclamation: In the year 2000 this solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy…. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people. The 32-panel system...

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Couple Recreates 50-Year-Old Woodstock Photo Showing Beginning of Their Relationship

Couple Recreates 50-Year-Old Woodstock Photo Showing Beginning of Their Relationship

Posted by | Mar 2, 2020 |

For most of the over 400,000 people who attended the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in 1969, it was an experience they’ll never forget. On August 15, Judy and Jerry Griffin met on their way to Bethel, a dairy farm in the state of New York and the location of the festival. They have been together ever since. Friends and family have known the amazing story of their meeting, but the couple never had physical proof of their time at Woodstock until just before the 50th anniversary of the festival in 2019. Judy’s car broke down on her way...

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Trader Joe’s Founder Dies at Age 89. Rest in Peace

Trader Joe’s Founder Dies at Age 89. Rest in Peace

Posted by | Mar 1, 2020 | , , ,

Joe Coulombe, the founder of Trader Joe’s, passed away at his home in Pasadena, California away after an extended illness. Trader Joe’s is one of the most enduring grocery chains in the country. Joe was born in 1930 in the middle of the depression. He grew up on an avocado ranch near San Diego. Later in life, he served in the U.S. Air Force and got a B.A. in economics and an MBA from Stanford. RELATED STORY: A Week’s Worth of Vegan Lunches for $15 at Trader Joe’s Joe’s path to Trader Joe’s began in the late 1950’s with a...

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For Women, By Women: A Sisterhood Of Carpenters Builds Tiny Houses For The Homeless

For Women, By Women: A Sisterhood Of Carpenters Builds Tiny Houses For The Homeless

Posted by | Feb 29, 2020 | , ,

A small low-income housing initiative in Northlake, Seattle has been making steady headlines since 2018. Built and run by the Low-Income Housing Institute (LIHI) and the city of Seattle, the housing initiative has been nationally praised for ingenuity, and dynamic problem-solving. Women at the heart and soul of the project also made this housing initiative unique.  Seattle’s Housing Crisis To understand why housing initiatives are important in the city of Seattle, one must realize the extent of homelessness in the growing northwest city. Since 2000, the cost of rent in Seattle has increased by 65% and home prices have...

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What’s in Children’s Drinking Water? Far Too Often, Something Neurotoxic

What’s in Children’s Drinking Water? Far Too Often, Something Neurotoxic

Posted by | Feb 28, 2020 | , ,

By the Children’s Health Defense Team Hollywood seems to love a good David versus corporate Goliath tale, and the stories it brings to the silver screen not infrequently revolve around real-life contamination of community water. Twenty years ago, the film Erin Brockovich called attention to a cancer-causing chemical dumped in a California community by Pacific Gas & Electric, while the recent film Dark Waters focuses on DuPont’s contamination of a West Virginia town’s water with the chemical PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid). Outside of Tinseltown, occurrences such as the 2014 lead debacle in Flint, Michigan—and especially its dramatic impact on children’s...

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