Articles

The right way to handle lead paint ‘on the job’

By Dorothy Hastings, Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting | Aug 30, 2015

SABATTUS — It looked like any other house in need of work, but it wasn’t for Randy Trefethen and his team from Renovate Right Construction.

Danger lurked on the job.

D.C. Council Fails to Fund Entrepreneurship Program for Returning Citizens

By Dorothy Hastings, Street Sense Media

Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council failed to fund a law that establishes an entrepreneurship training program for returning citizens.  

Drones: Conserving Our Future

By Dorothy Hastings, American Forests

The world’s tropical forests lost around 39 million acres of trees in 2017, largely due to anthropogenic deforestation, but conservationists are finding hope in using drones to monitor, preserve and even regrow the Earth’s forests and wildlife populations.

In January 2011, two conservationists met for the first time and changed conservation history. Lian Pin Koh and Serge Wich envisioned an inexpensive way to improve monitoring wildlife in remote regions. One year later, they built and tested the first-ever conservation drone in North Sumatra, Indonesia, and the results were unprecedented.