Laura Orlando
Laura Orlando is a member of the Rural America In These Times Board of Editors. She is a civil engineer and teaches in the environmental health department at the Boston University School of Public Health. Laura grew up on a farm near Benton Harbor, Michigan. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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California passes first US clothing recycling law: A bold step toward sustainability in fashion
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.
Trump’s false claims about Hurricane Helene response draw fire from NC newspaper and local...
The Charlotte Observer issued a pointed editorial denouncing Trump’s false claims and warning that such disinformation is hampering recovery efforts.
West Coast climate activists battle the false ‘solution’ of forest biomass
Up and down the West Coast, the burgeoning biomass boom threatens to derail hard-won progress on climate, ecosystem protection and environmental justice.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Palestine visit revealed the plain, brutal truth of apartheid
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.
Ocean temperatures 800 times more likely due to climate crisis fuel Hurricane Milton’s explosive...
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.