Jill Richardson
Jill Richardson is the founder of the blog La Vida Locavore and a member of the Organic Consumers Association policy advisory board. She is the author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It.
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Views Saturday, October 12, 2019 What Life on the Margins Feels Like My campus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is in an uproar over a video to promote the school's homecoming that features no students of color. When marginalized people are represented, it's often to serve a purpose for the dominant group, without challenging their default status as the norm... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 11, 2019 It’s Not About Your Straws or Your Light Bulbs A few years ago, I had a cupcake problem. I’d go to the cupcake store almost daily and I’d eat at least one cupcake, sometimes more. At the same time, I wanted to lose weight, or at least stop gaining it. So I kept looking up information about diets and superfoods, just looking for some magical... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 04, 2019 Get Ready for Unnatural Disasters This Hurricane Season Donald Trump discusses immigration as if the benefits of residence in the U.S. are a pie. When immigrants get more, the people who were already here get less. In general, that’s not true. When immigrants come here, they don’t just take some jobs (often low-wage jobs U.S. citizens don’t want), they... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 01, 2019 You Don’t Save Money By Forcing People to Go Hungry The Trump administration has proposed a rule that will cut an estimated 3 million eligible people off food stamps while depriving half a million eligible children of school lunch . I’ve been on food stamps. I spent most of my life with mental illness, and it was not diagnosed until a few years ago... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 11, 2019 The Good News About Trump’s Very Bad Environment Speech It’s hard to find the nuggets of good news in the media these days. Many people are so burnt out on the Trump news rollercoaster, which goes around the clock, changes frequently, and often shocks and outrages, that the least painful option is to skip the news entirely. Here’s some good news:... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 04, 2019 How Do You Celebrate a Flawed Nation? As the Fourth of July rolls around, I think plenty of us are eager for barbecues, corn on the cob, watermelon, and fireworks, but our feelings about our country are somewhat more complicated. How do you love and celebrate a country that’s so obviously flawed? A country that’s currently committing... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 09, 2019 Dealing With Climate Fear I don’t think I’m alone in feeling this way, but here goes: I can’t deal with climate change. I can’t read about it, I can’t watch documentaries on it, and I can’t think about it. I feel too powerless, and it hurts too much. The result feels like apathy, but it’s not that I don’t care. I care too... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 05, 2019 Celebrating Pride, Mindfully Happy Pride month! It’s June so it’s time to bust out the rainbows and… actually, I have a lot of conflicted feelings about it. Supposedly, Pride is when we all come together to celebrate queerness in all forms. Yet, we non-straights are not all the same, and many of us hold various overlapping... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 19, 2019 Why Is Going Green So Hard? Because Our System Isn’t Every year around Earth Day, I’m reminded of papers I graded in an environmental sociology class. The assignment was to assess your values, explain how you thought you would live as an adult (about 20 years in the future), and then complete an online calculator to find out: If everyone in the world... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Do Women Get to Be Experts? Was that sexist? Did he treat me that way because I’m a woman? Or would everything that just happened be exactly the same if I were a man? Those are familiar questions for women. For as many times when you can know for sure you’ve experienced sexism, there are so many more times when you can’t be... Read more |