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 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 |
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Views Wednesday, April 03, 2019 The Death Penalty Is Getting Crueler For years, most of the U.S. has been changing death penalty laws in the direction of phasing it out, or at least applying it in a more humane way. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that people with intellectual disabilities cannot be executed . In 2005, another ruling held that the U.S. cannot... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 01, 2019 Another Billionaire Presidential Candidate Who Doesn’t Get It Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz just announced he may run for president as an independent centrist candidate in 2020. I have some concerns about billionaires, however well-intentioned, running the country. For one thing, people generally pay a lot of attention to those who have more than them,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 23, 2019 The Transgender Ban Is About Bigotry and Distraction The Supreme Court just paved the way for Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military to move ahead, at least pending other court challenges. The ban will harm the military and help no one, while doing nothing to address the nation’s real problems. I’m neither transgender nor in the... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 08, 2018 Republicans Don't Want Your Vote to Count Wisconsin Republicans have made the news again. After losing the governor’s race (but maintaining control of the state legislature, thanks to gerrymandering), Republicans have passed a series of measures to limit the power of Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 21, 2018 California Is on Fire. Trump’s Solution: Rakes? California’s in the midst of the deadliest fire our state has ever suffered. As I write, there are 79 confirmed dead, and that number may grow as many more are missing. The Camp Fire also destroyed more structures than any fires before in our history. An even larger area within the state is... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 31, 2018 The White House Desperately Wants This Election to Be ‘Us’ vs. ‘Them’ In the days leading up to the election, the news has been scary. “We” are under threat from all sides. “They” are threatening us. There’s an actual threat from violent extremists motivated by racial and ethnic hatred. One white supremacist murdered two black people in Louisville and another... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 04, 2018 We Need to Talk About Masculinity When we discuss sexual assault, we often talk about women. What should women do to stay safe? When I was in school, girls were even trained in women’s self-defense. I don’t know what the boys did during those time periods. Study hall? Ask any woman what she does to prevent sexual assault and she’ll... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 26, 2018 The Unbelievable Cruelty of the GOP’s Kavanaugh Charade This past week, my private reality and the public reality playing out on the television have diverged. It’s hard to believe that I live in the same world as Senator Chuck Grassley, the Senate judiciary chair trying to Brett Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court. When Christine Blasey Ford first alleged... Read more |