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Kendra Pierre-Louis
Kendra Pierre-Louis is a Justmeans staff writer with an interest in creating healthier, more sustainable society. She's particularly interested in the intersection of business, sustainability and economics. How can we structure an economic system that allows business to behave better? She has a M.A. in Sustainable Development from the SIT Graduate Institute and a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University. She has worked with the UNEP's Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal, though she currently resides in New York City.
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STORIES FROM KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS
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Green Fireworks Go Green
Sustainable Development: With the dog days of summer just a hair's breath away, thoughts naturally wander to what for many of us is the period a...
July 01 -
Easy Ways to Green Your Home
Sustainable Development: According to the U.S. Green Building Council, the building sector comprises roughly half of all the green house gas emi...
April 13 -
American Power of the Fossil Variety
Sustainable Development: A Simpsons-esque squat yellow house sits in the shadow of a looming nuclear power plant. A B.P. refinery in Southern C...
March 31 -
So Fresh and So Clean
Sustainable Development: What often gets lost in amidst the discussion of our use of fossil fuels is this - fossil fuels are incredibly dirty. B...
March 31 -
Meat Glue, Pink Slime and Food Transparency
Sustainable Development: It takes someone with quite the cast iron stomach to hear the words "meat glue" and think "I want some of that". There...
March 31 -
Go Daddy CEO Kills an Elephant; Tweets About It
Sustainable Development: Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of the internet domain registering and web hosting service Go Daddy.com - famous for sexis...
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The Earth's Lungs Gasp: The Effects Amazonian Drought on CO2 Emissions
Sustainable Development: Called the lungs of the planet, the Amazon rainforest absorbs some 1.5 billion metric tons of CO2, every year - except...
March 29 -
Education: The Hidden Subsidy
Sustainable Development: Across the United States funding for public education is being slashed. In Florida, Governor Rick Scott is proposing...
March 23 -
Green Roofs Take Root in North America
Sustainable Development: Some 21,000 succulents call the roof of New York City's Con Edison's three-story Learning Center in Long Island City,...
March 22 • 1 -
Legislating Away Food Safety
Sustainable Development: In the 1973 science fiction movie _Soylent Green_ starring Charlton Heston as New York Police Detective Robert Thorn, w...
March 17 -
Sinking Islands, Nuclear Power, and Social Costs
Sustainable Development: When it comes to climate change, the island nation of the Maldives, a double chain of twenty-six atolls nestled in the...
March 16 -
China's Growth Conundrum
Sustainable Development: In a recent press briefing following the annual meeting of the National People's Congress, China's Premier Wen Jiabao p...
March 14 -
The UN Says Hippies Were Right: GMO's Are Out, Eco-Ag Is In
Sustainable Development: Decades ago, a sizable if motley group of individuals began to reject chemical agriculture arguing that food grown with...
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Canadians Are Less Toxic Than Americans
Sustainable Development: A recent article in this month's Canadian Medical Association Journal has found that despite similar lifestyles and cul...
March 03 -
Heavenly Creatures
Sustainable Development: While sustainable development can often seem _serious_ and even _austere_, there is a great deal of fun and humor relat...
February 28 -
Neither Rain Nor Wind Will Stop the Movement
Sustainable Development: No, not that movement. One would be hard pressed to know it based on the national press, so focused as we have been on...
February 28 -
Human Well-Being and the Environmental Paradox
Sustainable Development: One of the arguments against environmental conservation is that there is an apparent paradox between environmental degr...
February 28 • 2 -
Honeybees, Human Burns and Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development: Sometimes people think of environmental conservation as an after thought rather than a critical component of sustainabl...
February 27 • 2 -
EcoATM Promises to Make Recycling Electronics Easier
Sustainable Development: Dealing with electronic waste, or e-waste, the colorful term for electronic products that have reached the end of their...
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Breaking the Bank: Why Income Inequality Matters
Sustainable Development: This week the Mother Jones website ran an article entitled "It's the inequality, Stupid" that used graphs and charts ba...
February 26
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