Blake Skylar
LATEST ARTICLES BY Blake Skylar
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Environment
GMO labels on food: Chicagoans dish out activism
April 3, 2015"At the heart of this campaign is consumer rights. People deserve to know what they are eating and feeding their children."
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Environment
Ground zero for climate change: Antarctica has hottest day ever
March 31, 2015"Ice shelves in West Antarctica have lost as much as 18 percent of their volume over the last two decades, with rapid acceleration occurring over the last decade."
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Labor
Young Workers Summit feels the jolt of young labor activism
March 23, 2015"America is begging for change on a grand scale; the kind of change that, quite frankly, has always been led by young people."
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Environment
World’s largest indoor farm putting down roots in New Jersey
March 17, 2015The Newark-based farm will take the space currently being occupied by an abandoned steel factory, with the first phase of operations there to begin later this year.
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Opinion
Terry Pratchett, 66: fantasy author’s own narrative closes
March 16, 2015Fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett died Mar. 12, leaving several library shelves' worth of published literature behind, as well as the legacy it created.
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Environment
Chicago community fights petcoke, pile by pile
March 10, 2015For one community, the Windy City has been blowing something other than a healthy breeze.
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Environment
New report says oil trains endanger 25 million
February 24, 2015"People, wildlife, rivers, and lakes will pay a huge cost for the government's failure to act. It's only a matter of time before the next explosive accident."
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Environment
Even amidst climate change, geoengineering is not the answer
February 17, 2015Geoengineering was once considered a fringe idea, but in these climatically desperate times some are arguing for desperate measures.
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