Gabriel Furshong wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Gabriel writes from Helena, Montana. His writing has appeared in High Country News, In These Times, the Cossack Review, and elsewhere.
The aim is to combat the growing environmental crisis posed by the fast fashion industry and textile waste, which has increasingly burdened the state’s landfills and ecosystem.
Up and down the West Coast, the burgeoning biomass boom threatens to derail hard-won progress on climate, ecosystem protection and environmental justice.
His new book, The Message, is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States.
According to Climate Central, a research organization specializing in climate impacts, the record-breaking sea temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico provided the fuel that allowed Hurricane Milton to intensify at an unprecedented pace.