Michaelann Land

Today was just incredibly hectic at Arise (not that this is unusual). We talked with four currently homeless families, all calling from th...

We've started monitoring DHCD at the Liberty St.welfare office in Springfield (and as the word is spreading, we're also hearing ...

MIDWAY : trailer : a film by Chris Jordan from Midway on Vimeo . I'd like to think that most of us now know about this particular e...

Skip the lousy soundtrack and just watch.  Thanks, Care2!

Hey, biomass developers! If you can't meet at least 50% efficiency, then you won't be considered green and renewable, meaning you ...

The last people I saw at Arise today were a woman and her adult nephew.  For the last five years, she and her three children have been...

Just got off the phone with an 18 year old girl who is homeless.  She called Worthington St. Shelter for Women, where she has stayed bef...

My older daughter sent me a link yesterday about how the producers of the movie The Expendables - 2 had destroyed the habitat of bats in ...

Washington County, Maine, is about to have its own tidal energy plant.  The project will start with 138 kilowatts and increase as the stre...

We all have animals to whom we relate, and while I tend toward the small-- bees, birds, bats, frogs-- wolves deserve our attention. From...

I suspect the residents of Springfield think biomass is a dead issue, but we-- Stop Toxic Incineration in Springfield--  continue to take...

At least somebody in Great Britain gets it.... http://www.utilityproducts. com/news/2012/03/11/biomass- blaze-highlights-bizarre- nature-o...

End the Criminalization of Homelessness & Poverty!  Join Us!  Monday,  April 2, 2012 In Solidarity with the National Day of Action fo...

In December of 2010, WMA Jobs with Justice coordinator Jon Weissman sent an email to the Arise list-- did we know that the person who ha...