December 22, 2020
When Chef David Falk and his wife, Caitlin, launched Domo near the beginning of the pandemic, they were trying to accomplish several things. One of them, as Falk describes in a video introducing the meal delivery service, was to build a kind of ark that could support his team until they could get to the dry land on the other side of the pandemic. The Falks initially thought of Domo as a stopgap measure until the restaurant scene got back to normal. âMost of us thought,
By fall, this will be over,â he says with a wry laugh.
Photograph courtesy of Sacred Beast
Lawsuit Challenges Large Fossil Fuel Project Proposed in Alaska’s Arctic
Map showing location of Willow Project in Alaska’s arctic. Audobon Alaska
ANCHORAGE,
Alaska Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging a massive oil and gas project known as the Willow Master Development Plan in Alaska’s Western Arctic. Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law firm, sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace.
ConocoPhillips’ plan involves using giant chillers to refreeze thawing permafrost a consequence of climate change to ensure a solid drilling surface. The oil company plans to construct five drill sites in the northeastern corner of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, public lands that provide essential wildlife habitat for polar bears, migratory birds, caribou and other iconic species. Willow would permanently scar the largest undevelope
Cincinnati Magazine
December 22, 2020
When the full weight of Ohio’s initial coronavirus response hit back in March, Jeremy Lieb, co-founder (with his wife and fellow Maisonette veteran, Bridget) of Over-the-Rhine’s Sacred Beast, saw his family’s livelihood shuttered overnight. But with everything on the line, Lieb didn’t see any time to fret.
Photograph courtesy of Sacred Beast
“It was surreal,” he says. “It was like, I can’t believe we’re being closed. And I was just like, OK, we’re going to follow the rules.”
Sacred Beast was already ahead of many other eateries with an online ordering system in place that Lieb says, “before this, nobody used.” They quickly pulled together a to-go menu based on an idea they called Beast Kits carryout meals that serve two to four people.
For Immediate Release, December 21, 2020 Contact:
Erin Jensen, Friends of the Earth, (727) 504-716, ejensen@foe.org
Rebecca Bowe, Earthjustice, (415) 217-2093, rbowe@earthjustice.org
Tyler Kruse, Greenpeace USA, (808) 741-2791, tkruse@greenpeace.org
Lawsuit Challenges Large Fossil Fuel Project Proposed in Alaska’s Arctic
Willow Project Would Mark Major Expansion for Oil, Gas Extraction in Western Arctic
ANCHORAGE,
Alaska Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging a massive oil and gas project known as the Willow Master Development Plan in Alaska’s Western Arctic. Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law firm, sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace.