Refinery Town

Author : Steve Early
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807094273

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Refinery Town by Steve Early Pdf

The People vs. Big Oil—how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community With a foreword by Bernie Sanders Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of 100,000 suffered from poverty, pollution, and poorly funded public services. It had one of the highest homicide rates per capita in the country and a jobless rate twice the national average. But when veteran labor reporter Steve Early moved from New England to Richmond in 2012, he discovered a city struggling to remake itself. In Refinery Town, Early chronicles the 15 years of successful community organizing that raised the local minimum wage, defeated a casino development project, challenged home foreclosures and evictions, and sought fair taxation of Big Oil. A short list of Richmond’s activist residents helps to propel this compelling chronicle: • 94 year old Betty Reid Soskin, the country’s oldest full-time national park ranger and witness to Richmond’s complex history • Gayle McLaughlin, the Green Party mayor who challenged Chevron and won • Police Chief Chris Magnus, who brought community policing to Richmond and is now one of America’s leading public safety reformers Part urban history, part call to action, Refinery Town shows how concerned citizens can harness the power of local politics to reclaim their community and make municipal government a source of much-needed policy innovation. “Refinery Town provides an inside look at how one American city has made radical and progressive change seem not only possible but sensible.”—David Helvarg, The Progressive

Author : Richard A. Walker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295989730

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The Country in the City by Richard A. Walker Pdf

Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award Finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008). The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis, stitched from fields, farms and woodlands, mines, creeks, and wetlands. In The Country in the City, Richard Walker tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place. The Bay Area�s civic landscape has been fought over acre by acre, an arduous process requiring popular mobilization, political will, and hard work. Its most cherished environments--Mount Tamalpais, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, Mount Diablo, the Pacific coast--have engendered some of the fiercest environmental battles in the country and have made the region a leader in green ideas and organizations. This book tells how the Bay Area got its green grove: from the stirrings of conservation in the time of John Muir to origins of the recreational parks and coastal preserves in the early twentieth century, from the fight to stop bay fill and control suburban growth after the Second World War to securing conservation easements and stopping toxic pollution in our times. Here, modern environmentalism first became a mass political movement in the 1960s, with the sudden blooming of the Sierra Club and Save the Bay, and it remains a global center of environmentalism to this day. Green values have been a pillar of Bay Area life and politics for more than a century. It is an environmentalism grounded in local places and personal concerns, close to the heart of the city. Yet this vision of what a city should be has always been informed by liberal, even utopian, ideas of nature, planning, government, and democracy. In the end, green is one of the primary colors in the flag of the Left Coast, where green enthusiasms, like open space, are built into the fabric of urban life. Written in a lively and accessible style, The Country in the City will be of interest to general readers and environmental activists. At the same time, it speaks to fundamental debates in environmental history, urban planning, and geography.

Author : Rosemary Enright,Sue Maden
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781439646182

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Legendary Locals of Jamestown by Rosemary Enright,Sue Maden Pdf

When Caleb Carr, one of the 101 men who purchased Conanicut and Dutch Islands in 1657, petitioned the General Assembly to incorporate Jamestown in 1678, the town had 150 inhabitants. The community thrived until the American Revolution, when the British occupation drove away many people. Nicholas Carr and John Eldred both remained, rebelling in their own ways. The town recovered slowly, and its character changed with modernized modes of transportation. Steam ferries, introduced in 1873, ushered in an era of resort hotels, affluent summer visitors, and a service economy. The West Passage bridge in 1940 brought permanent residents with off-island occupations and interests. The East Passage bridge (1969) and the replacement West Passage bridge (1992) created a suburban atmosphere enlivened by a continuing influx of summer vacationers. Most newcomers revel in the islands beauty and are intent on keeping Jamestown the peaceful haven that attracted them.

Author : Susanne Bacon
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524656294

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Telling Truths by Susanne Bacon Pdf

When the plans for an oil refinery become a threat to the future of the quaint Victorian town of Wycliff on South Puget Sound, environmentalist Thora Byrd speaks up. Will she lose an old friend over her ideals of ecology above economy? Meanwhile, journalist Julie Dolan delves deeply into a story of illegal dumping in Wycliff Forest. But somebody who belongs to the past of Wycliff doesnt want to be in her newspapers spotlight and is ready to put everything on one card.

Author : David W. Moore
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781635761870

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Small Town, Big Oil by David W. Moore Pdf

How three New Hampshire women triumphed over an oil billionaire: “A very timely reminder that when we fight we often win.”—Bill McKibben Never underestimate the underdog. In 1973, Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis—husband of President John F. Kennedy’s widow, Jacqueline, and arguably the richest man in the world—proposed to build an oil refinery on the narrow New Hampshire coast, in the town of Durham. At the time, it would have cost $600 million to build and was expected to generate 400,000 barrels of oil per day, making it the largest oil refinery in the world. The project was vigorously supported by the governor, Meldrim Thomson, and by William Loeb, the notorious publisher of the only statewide newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader. But three women vehemently opposed the project—Nancy Sandberg, the town leader who founded and headed Save Our Shores; Dudley Dudley, the freshman state rep who took the fight to the state legislature; and Phyllis Bennett, the publisher of the local newspaper that alerted the public to Onassis’ secret acquisition of the land. Small Town, Big Oil is the story of how the residents of Durham, led by these three women, out-organized, out-witted, and out-maneuvered the governor, the media, and the Onassis cartel to hand the powerful Greek billionaire the most humiliating defeat of his business career, and spare the New Hampshire seacoast from becoming an industrial wasteland. “Activists and organizers will find lots of ideas and inspirations in this book's detailed account of an epic battle.”—Bill McKibben “[An] apt handbook on the power of the people.”—Providence Journal

Author : Gwen Ottinger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814762370

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Refining Expertise by Gwen Ottinger Pdf

"An intriguing and impressive account of corporate social responsibility—and neoliberalism writ large—on the ground, in action, in chemical plant communities in Louisiana…Ottinger effectively [illustrates] how, in complex, culturally saturated ways, corporate commitment to `responsible care’ has created critical challenges for environmental activism and justice." —Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Residents of a small Louisiana town were sure that the oil refinery next door was making them sick. As part of a campaign demanding relocation away from the refinery, they collected scientific data to prove it. Their campaign ended with a settlement agreement that addressed many of their grievances—but not concerns about their health. Yet, instead of continuing to collect data, residents began to let refinery scientists’ assertions that their operations did not harm them stand without challenge. What makes a community move so suddenly from actively challenging to apparently accepting experts’ authority? Refining Expertise argues that the answer rests in the way that refinery scientists and engineers defined themselves as experts. Rather than claiming to be infallible, they began to portray themselves as responsible. This work drives home the need for both activists and politically engaged scholars to reconfigure their own activities in response, in order to advance community health and robust scientific knowledge about it. Gwen Ottinger is Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington-Bothell, where she teaches in the Science, Technology, & Society and Environmental Studies majors. She is co-editor of Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement.

Author : John Tutino,Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469648767

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New World Cities by John Tutino,Martin V. Melosi Pdf

For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities around the world. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody: production, politics, and daily lives. In this book, seven eminent scholars look at the similar but nevertheless divergent courses taken by Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Los Angeles, and Houston in the twentieth century, attending to the challenges of rapid growth, the gains and limits of popular politics, and the profound local effects of a swiftly modernizing, globalizing economy. By exploring the rise of these six cities across five nations, New World Cities investigates the complexities of power and prosperity, difficulty and desperation, while reckoning with the social, cultural, and ethnic dynamics that mark all metropolitan areas. Contributors: Michele Dagenais, Mark Healey, Martin V. Melosi, Bryan McCann, Joseph A. Pratt, George J. Sanchez, and John Tutino.

Author : Emily Eaton
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21T00:00:00Z
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781773636740

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Unjust Transition by Emily Eaton Pdf

In 2019, Regina’s Co-op Refinery Complex (CRC), a subsidiary of Federated Co-operative, locked out Unifor Local 594 after collective bargaining negotiations failed. CRC used the transition to a “low carbon” future as the justification for concessions on working conditions and reducing the workers' pension plan. The lockout demonstrates what a “just transition” means to fossil fuel corporations: rollbacks of collective bargaining, worker rights, cooperative spirit and environmental justice. In the name of a new future, Federated Co-operative and the Saskatchewan government trampled all over important worker rights — the right to strike and picket, occupational health and safety, pensions and collective bargaining. It also highlights the sorry state of co-operative values in Canada. As corporations and governments are poised to make a transition that will be detrimental to workers and communities, this books argues that solidarity between unions and community movements is absolutely necessary to make the transition away from fossil fuels a just one.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1454 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN : MINN:31951P00118100M

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Environmental Quality by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCAL:B2968343

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Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Thomas Collins
Publisher : RavensYard Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1928928064

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WordSmith by Robert Thomas Collins Pdf

Collins presents a chronicle of journal entries written between 1980 and 1988 by a journalist who worked for Mobil Oil Corporation, which at the time was at the center of the energy crisis. When edited later, the author found his journal also revealed a story of redemption for a father and son.

Author : Madeline Ostrander
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781250620521

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At Home on an Unruly Planet by Madeline Ostrander Pdf

One of Kirkus Reviews' 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 A gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Ecology & Environment From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter? Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live. In At Home on an Unruly Planet, science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on this crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances. A firefighter works to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires. A Florida preservationist strives to protect one of North America's most historic cities from rising seas. An urban farmer struggles to transform a California city plagued by fossil fuel disasters. An Alaskan community heads for higher ground as its land erodes. Ostrander pairs deeply reported stories of hard-won optimism with lyrical essays on the strengths we need in an era of crisis. The book is required reading for anyone who wants to make a home in the twenty-first century.

Author : Buen Sin Low
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814496544

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China Business Review 1997: A Supplement Of The Accounting And Business Review by Buen Sin Low Pdf

Contents:Growth and the Change of Economic Structure in the Chinese Economy: The Case of Jiangsu's Economy (Y Cao & S B Chew)The Importance of Jiangsu's Economy in the Formation of Regional Pattern of the Emerging Chinese Market (T M Tan et al.)The Development of Township and Village Enterprises and Its Impact on Jiangsu's Economy (Y Cao & K-R Shen)Rural Enterprises in Jiangsu Province: The Performance and Potential (S B Chew et al.)The Comparative Advantages of Township and Village Enterprises in Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou in Jiangsu Province (Y-H Liu & Z-B Liu)Case Studies on the Economic Structure of Township and Village Enterprises in Jiangsu Province (S B Chew & Y-H Liu)Foreign Trade Development and the Comparative Advantage of the Jiangsu Province of China (E-Z Zhang & R Chew)Inward Foreign Direct Investment in Jiangsu (R-F Wang & E-Z Zhang) Readership: Business executives and researchers on China's market economy. Keywords:

Author : Ontario
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062510917

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Statutes of the Province of Ontario by Ontario Pdf

Prefixed to the first vol. is "An act for the union of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick ... 29th March, 1867" with special t.p.: Anno regni Victoriæ, Britanniarum reginæ, tricesimo et tricesimo-primo. At a Parliament begun and holden at Westminster ... Toronto, 1868. 45 p.

Author : Ontario
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:35112204260550

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Lois de L'Ontario by Ontario Pdf

Prefixed to the first vol. is "An act for the union of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick ... 29th March, 1867" with special t.p.: Anno regni Victoriæ, Britanniarum reginæ, tricesimo et tricesimo-primo. At a Parliament begun and holden at Westminster ... Toronto, 1868. 45 p.