Tag: Kansas

  • Nation & World

    Seeds of change

    Benet Magnuson is a native Kansan and the executive director of Kansas Appleseed. His career has been dedicated to nonprofit advocacy on behalf of impoverished and excluded communities.

    3 minutes
    Benet speaking at a podium
  • Nation & World

    Up from the ruins, slowly

    Joyce Klein Rosenthal of the Graduate School of Design spoke to the Gazette about lessons from past disasters and possible first steps toward rebuilding following the devastation of last Monday’s massive tornado in Moore, Okla.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HLS students effect real change in law, policy clinic

    In October 2007, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment made the unprecedented decision to deny a permit application for three new coal-fired generating units that together would emit 11 million tons of carbon dioxide into the air each year, citing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change as the reason for the denial.

    6 minutes