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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Shannon Weiner
Sustaining New York’s Waterways: My Experiences as a Riverkeeper Ambassador and Their Implications for the Future
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December 7, 2009: (Photograph of the Hudson River from Stony Point by Robert Rodriguez, Jr.; accessed on riverwindsgallery.com)In my first OnEarth blog, I introduced the Green-Action Project that I would carry out for the semester-long course... read more >
The Hudson River: A Habitat in Trouble?
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November 21, 2009: The Oyster Toad, a fish that calls the Hudson River home (image courtesy of scienceray.com)Because of the Hudson River's infamous history as a polluted waterway thanks to its industrial neighbors positioned on the river's... read more >
The Fate of the Gowanus Canal: When Politics and Environmental Issues Collide
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November 15, 2009: Pollution on the surface of the Gowanus Canal. (photo courtesy of http://www.brownstoner.com/)After writing a blog a few weeks ago about the possibility of the Gowanus Canal being added to the Federal Superfund National... read more >
Riverkeeper Publishes Fifth Volume of Its Industrial Gas Drilling Reporter
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November 7, 2009: Industrial Gas Drilling Visual (Courtesy of dteenergy.com)The fifth volume of Riverkeeper's Industrial Gas Drilling Reporter couldn't have been released at a more opportune time.  With New York's draft environmental impact... read more >
Chesapeake Energy Will Not Drill in the NYC Watershed: But is it Enough to Safeguard the Integrity of our Waterways?
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November 2, 2009: Map of the Marcellus Shale (photo accessed on greencollarrap.com)On October 18th, I posted a blog entitled "Will the Pursuit of Natural Gas Endanger New York's Drinking Water?"  In this post, I discussed the... read more >
Superfund Nomination, Development, and the Economy: What They Mean for the Future of the Gowanus Canal
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October 25, 2009: (Photo accessed on www.nyc.org)The Gowanus Canal has the Hudson River beat when it comes to water pollution.  Located in Brooklyn, the Gowanus Canal "is one of the most heavily contaminated water bodies in the nation,... read more >
Swimming in the Hudson River: Will the Water Quality Ever be Satisfactory?
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October 19, 2009: Swimmers in the Hudson River on May 23, 2009 for the Great Hudson River Swim (Photo courtesy of Watts/News on www.nydailynews.com) Imagine a sweltering summer day in New York City.  Aside from staying inside your air-... read more >
Will the Pursuit of Natural Gas Endanger New York’s Drinking Water?
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October 13, 2009: Beneath much of the New York City Watershed and extending over numerous states lies the Marcellus Shale, an expansive mineral reserve and sedimentary rock formation thousands of feet below the earth'... read more >
The Hudson River and Its Waterways: Preserving a Precious Resource
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October 6, 2009: I am currently enrolled in a science and public policy course entitled Environmental Literature, Ethics, and Action (ELEA) at Barnard College of Columbia University. One of the major assignments for the course is our... read more >
Shannon Weiner
I am a Senior at Columbia University in New York City, majoring in Political Science and minoring in Environmental Science and Art History.  I have always been passionate about environmental causes and have put that passion into practice by working with different environmental... More