🟢 Mahbubur Meenar, PhD

Sharing an update on our Camden #Environmental #Education Project. The project webpage now features air pollution-related educational materials, resources, and updates on the Participatory Science project: www.planviz.org/greening-cam... @rowanuniversity.bsky.social @rowanresearch.bsky.social

Cities paper abstract

Analyzing #vehicle #electrification within the state of #NJ. How do #policy #advocates participate in the policy diffusion process via interface with the constellation of policy-making systems and actors? Free access to my recent research article in Cities with Keenan: doi.org/10.1016/j.ci...

🍅New article! "Community perceptions of small-town #food #environments, food #equity, & home-based food #cultivation." Our community-engaged research is published in the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, & Community Development. 🥕@rowanuniversity.bsky.social
Free access:
doi.org/10.5304/jafs...

Wildfire Burns in 3,200 Acres of New Jersey Forest Area The fire in the Pine Barrens led to the evacuation of 3,000 residents and the shutdown of a stretch of the Garden State Parkway.

A fast-moving wildfire in the Pine Barrens section of southern New Jersey spread to 3,200 acres of the heavily forested area by the evening, prompting the shutdown of a 17-mile stretch of one of the state’s busiest highways, the authorities said.

EPA plans to cut scientific research program, could fire more than 1,000 employees The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research program and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rule...

Is anyone documenting all the government science and research offices that are being closed? This one is worth tracking for sure! Any Suggestions @anauc.bsky.social ? apnews.com/article/epa-...

A crowd of people demonstrating outside in front of the Lincoln Memorial on a clear, sunny day. Some of the signs read “Science over Stupidity,” “Science Makes America Great,” and “Team Public Health, Not Team Measles.”

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

We are looking forward to hosting Dr. Mann at this free, public event! Hope you can join us!

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

The End of Term Archive team @eotarchive.org crawled millions of federal webpages! If you are worried about a page going down or changing information on it, you can check to see if it is saved in the Internet Archive's @waybackmachine.bsky.social. 1/2

A reminder that democracy.io will let you contact all your members of congress at the same time.

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

All federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House | CNN Politics The White House budget office has ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans, according to an internal memorandum sent Monday.

The While House pauses all federal grants and loan disbursements.

For researchers, this means that work already completed and charged to federal grants (NSF, NIH, etc) will not be reimbursed by the federal government until further notice.

www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...

“Messy Cities - Why We Can't Plan Everything” is sure to be one of the most exciting new book releases of 2025 … and I was happy to be one of the contributors with my chapter on “Planning For An Unplanned City.” Pre-order now from Coach House Books at tinyurl.com/3ttfx5sk #UrbanismBookClub

E&E News: Trump scraps Clinton EJ order, calling it ‘discrimination’ The president revoked a 1994 directive requiring agencies to protect minority or low-income areas from pollution and health hazards.

#EnvironmentalJustice was NOT birthed in government or government programs. It sprang from people striving to make America more just for everyone. I'm hopeful and I have faith. But, "faith without work is dead." | Scientific American subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene.... @BullardCenter

What Happened to Hanging Out on the Street? Urban pedestrians are walking faster and doing less socializing, according to a new study of NYC, Boston and Philadelphia. Is technology to blame, or public space itself?

Rather than pausing to linger, American pedestrians are racing through streets – and doing so alone.

A new study from Ed Glaeser, Carlo Ratti, et al. raises troubling questions about the decline of streetlife.

Me, in CityLab 🧵

Thank you, Dusty @dustygedge.bsky.social

lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train

labyrinth.zone/notice/Aq5V7...

The importance of indoor air quality for health The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that we spend around 90 % of our time indoors.1 Therefore, it is not difficult to believe that the air we breathe—the indoor air quality—crucially determines our health and can drastically affect our efficiency,...

The importance of indoor air quality for health
->News Medical Life Sciences | #AirQuality #Health | More info from EcoSearch

How Two Words from a 24-Year-Old Pasadena Climate Specialist Saved Hundreds of Lives - Local News Pasadena Edgar McGregor’s timely Eaton Fire alert: ‘Get out!’

What a wonderful story about @edgarmcgregor.bsky.social

🌳Sharing our open-access article in Cities! Panek (@jirkapanek.bsky.social), Kitson, York, and I map emotional landscapes of parks in post-industrial communities seeking #environmental #justice. Insights for #biophilic, #equitable #planning & avoiding #green #gentrification. doi.org/10.1016/j.ci...

Can u please send the details to my email address? meenar at rowan dot edu

The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles like this have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist

These fires are a watershed moment, not just for residents of LA, but emblematic of a new era of complex, compound climate disaster. Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles have never existed in all of known history, until they now do.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘A place for kids to play and a place to store water’: the stormwater capture zone that is also a playground Flood-prone Hoboken, New Jersey, has opened a play area for its youngest residents that doubles as storage for stormwater runoff

An interesting piece about climate-resilient playgrounds, acting as stores for stormwater, designed for cooling, with shade, and to absorb pollution, restoring nature, and reclaiming brownfield sites for children and the community

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Call for Sessions 2025 The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Food Geographies Research Group (FGRG) invites session sponsorship proposals for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025. The conference will take plac…

Happy New Year from the Food Geographies Research Group!

If you're hoping to organise a food-themed session at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference this year, make sure you check out our call for sessions before 20 Jan: foodgeographies.wordpress.com/call-for-ses...

#FoodGeog #RGSIBG25

A photo of the Ford F-150 Lightning used in the New Orleans terrorist attack, surrounded by law enforcement officers.

The truck used in the New Orleans terrorist attack is a Ford F-150 Lightning, which is perfectly designed for this kind of attack.

It weighs more than 6000 lbs, accelerates to 60 mph in just 4 seconds, and the battering-ram-shaped front is nearly 5 feet tall. Deadly by design.

Hydropower Was Ecuador’s Answer to Climate Change. Until the Drought Hit. (Gift Article) An extraordinary drought has drained Ecuador’s rivers and reservoirs, leading to power outages of up to 14 hours. Some fear this is the beginning of a larger global crisis.

Ecuador, which gets 70% of its electricity from hydropower, is facing a severe energy crisis due to an extraordinary drought exacerbated by climate change. The solution is to diversify and invest more in wind and solar.

Is the Philippines a test case for climate justice? As the site of several climate-related disasters, the Philippines is hard to ignore when officials advocate for accountability from polluters. The country is pushing for support for nations facing similar climate crises. As the impacts of climate change intensify, vulnerable...

Is the Philippines a test case for climate justice?
->Deutsche Welle | #ClimateJustice | More info from EcoSearch

Great questions, @raulpachecovega.bsky.social. I have 3 zombie papers: one stalled as the lead author moved on, leaving my work unused. Another was postponed indefinitely after I got busy with new projects. The 3rd received demanding reviews after a year, killing my motivation to revise or resubmit.

I've put together a starter pack of PhD students working in sustainable food systems, food justice, and environmental sciences, for anyone that would like to connect with fellow PhD students.

Let me know if you would like to be added!

#academicsky #foodstudies
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