Sandy Smith-Nonini

Sandy Smith-Nonini, PhD, is an adjunct asst. professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill. She is the author of Healing the Body Politic: El Salvador's Popular Struggle for Health Rights from Civil War to Neoliberal Peace. Her writings on the drug-resistant tuberculosis epidemic in Peru and New York City can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandy_Smith-Nonini/research.

To Re-Open the US Economy we Need a Green New Deal Approach to Coronavirus

By Sandy Smith-Nonini, Resilience.org

While climate change has dropped out of the news in our new corona-verse, in this column I argue that the COVID crisis is indeed a climate crisis, and that the United States needs a Green New Deal approach if we are to reopen our economy safely, without incurring waves of new COVID-19 infections that will force future lockdowns.

April 21, 2020

The Quake after the Storm: Slouching toward Sustainability in Puerto Rico

By Sandy Smith-Nonini, Resilience.org

Puerto Ricans were plunged in the dark once more in January, this time due to an earthquake that severely damaged a major power plant near the southern coast. Recurring tremors led to thousands sleeping in the open for weeks. The blackout, while temporary, was ominously reminiscent of the long blackout following Hurricane María two years ago, which left some residents without power for nearly a year.

February 4, 2020