Obama: President or Product?

By Talia Whyte

The Grio

President Obama will be traveling to Denmark to lobby on behalf of Chicago, his hometown, for the 2016 Summer Olympics. He will be the first American president in modern times to pitch for a city at the International Olympic Committee meeting. By the mere fact that he is making an appearance in Copenhagen, some speculate that Obama has already sealed the deal for the Windy City. Nine months after his ascension to the White House, President Obama is still an international phenomenon and quite possibly the greatest marketing tool of all time.

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Food and Environmental Justice

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As many of you all know, I am a 2009 Urban Environmental Justice Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Journalism, University of Southern California.   There were so many people involved in making this project possible that I don’t have the room to list them all here, but clearly there is an interest in this subject, and I hope that the discussion will continue in the forseeable future!

Thanks!

Talia

Here is my completed project:

Bay State Banner

‘Something green is growing here’: In Dorchester, residents of color take urban farming to new heights

Photo Slide Show: Something Green is Growing Here

Video series for WGBH Boston (PBS affliate)
Eating Green: Food and Environmental Justice in Boston

Part 1: Food Justice, Part 2: Food Problem, Part 3: Black and Meatless – sort of

The Grio/MSNBC
Gross Inequality to Access to Healthy Food

The Grio/MSNBC
More veggies, less meat; flexitarians find middle ground

African-Americans need to ‘raise hell’ about climate change

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By Talia Whyte

The Grio

Yesterday, President Obama spoke before world leaders at the United Nations about the ongoing global climate change debate. The president acknowledged that the over the last century, the industrialized world has “caused much of the damage to our climate” and now has the responsibility to lead.

For the most part this week, this issue will be discussed from an international context, leading up to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen later this year. Developing countries have suffered most from global carbon emissions, and they are now seeking 1 percent of the world’s GDP to help them adapt to the climate crisis. While I support this notion of international benevolence, climate change also has to be viewed from a domestic perspective as well.

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