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Half The Sky

Half The Sky

Noreen Leahy October 11, 2012 0

Northeastern’s Half the Sky Campus Ambassadors Noreen Leahy, Jessica Iocca, Sarah Lombardo, Olivia Allen & Cinnamon Bottaro It is estimated that over 100 million women and girls are ‘missing’ from the global population as

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The Last Mountain: Understanding the Toxic Side of Coal

The Last Mountain: Understanding the Toxic Side of Coal

Noreen Leahy, Environmental Studies '13 March 1, 2012 1

At last year’s Sundance Film Festival, a movie premiered entitled The Last Mountain. At the time of writing The Last Mountain is available for streaming via Netflix – and it is a must watch

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Division in Northern Ireland: Protestants, Catholics and ‘Others’

Division in Northern Ireland: Protestants, Catholics and ‘Others’

Noreen Leahy, Environmental Studies '13 November 28, 2011 0

It can be easy to belittle the progress made by the political and social systems in Northern Ireland (NI) since the signing of the Belfast Agreement in 1998, but let there be no mistake

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Massachusetts Fishery Management Plans: A Public Field Hearing

Massachusetts Fishery Management Plans: A Public Field Hearing

Noreen Leahy, Environmental Studies '13 October 28, 2011 0

This article is written in reaction to the author’s attendance of the October 3rd, 2011 public field hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation to review Massachusetts Fishery Management Plans. It

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

Noreen Leahy, Environmental Studies '13 February 18, 2010 0

As with so many of our natural resources, we are slowly coming to the realization that nature’s bounty is not as limitless as we once so naively thought. Less than a century ago, fishing

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