Holiday Rentals: The New Gentrification Battlefront

Toxic Christmas and New Year Holiday Plants...or Are They?

Background: Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), holly (Ilex opaca) and mistletoe (Phoradendron flavescens) adorn homes during the Christmas and New Year holiday season and create the potential for curious children to sample their colorful leaves and enticing berries. This study was aimed to review the American Association of Poison Control Centers National Poison Data System (AAPCC NPDS) to des...

Two Cheers for Gentrification

Holiday musings.

A M d his Editor’s Page is being written during the Christmas reak, a traditional period of family reunions, relaxation, ecreation, and reflection. It is often a time when people tep back and try to put the daily activities in which their ives are immersed into a broader perspective. In that spirit, thought I would share with you some of my musings uring this time. The first issue that occurred...

The Post-Industrial Regime of Production/Consumption and the Rural Gentrification of the New West Archipelago

The contemporary American West is undergoing a round of rapid restructuring, which has been characterized as the shift from landscapes of production to landscapes of consumption. Here I propose that a more effective description of current changes, which allows us to retain focus on the relevant interand intra-classbased dynamics of an ongoing capitalist-Modernity, is as a result of the transiti...

toxic christmas and new year holiday plants...or are they?

background: poinsettia (euphorbia pulcherrima), holly (ilex opaca) and mistletoe (phoradendron flavescens) adorn homes during the christmas and new year holiday season and create the potential for curious children to sample their colorful leaves and enticing berries. this study was aimed to review the american association of poison control centers national poison data system (aapcc npds) to des...