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by Jonny Gordon-Farleigh, STIR
In his influential book Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole The World Nicholas Shaxson tells us that if you thought the open face of global capitalism was bad enough, the murky and secret world of tax havens is even worse.
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by Eric Krasnauskas, Science Pope
While climate change is certainly a fact of the physical world, at its core it’s a social problem, born of our cultural emphasis on consumerism and growth.
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by David Gessner, Onearth
We’re living in a time of growing fear of what I have come to call the “Big Primal.” ...Our scientists confirm that we’re not all simply imagining that our weather has gone wild; for them, the warming of the oceans and the rising of the seas are facts, not theories.
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by John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
When you think about it, it’s really rather odd that so many people nowadays should be so hostile to the suggestion that history moves in circles.
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Jun 19, 2013
by David Fridley, Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology
The various obstacles to alternative energy compound the fundamental challenge of how to supplant a fossil fuel–based supply chain withone driven by alternative energy forms themselves.
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Jun 19, 2013
by Shannon Hayes, Yes! Magazine
If we are going to be truly resilient, then we must be compassionate about the suffering of those around us, and we must seek ways, both through policy and through our daily individual actions, that will help to rectify this suffering.
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Jun 19, 2013
by Jay Walljasper, Resilience.org
Impossible, many folks would tell me. Special bike lanes are strictly a European thing that would never fit in our newer, auto-dominated cities. You’re selling America short, I answered...
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Jun 19, 2013
by Jessica Conrad, On the Commons
Hardly a new idea, the sharing economy has been hotly discussed among rising entrepreneurs and the media since the global recession of 2008.
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Jun 19, 2013
by Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening
Honeybees are not the only ones in trouble--bumblebees are too. This is the first of a two part series that will discuss how urban areas might be bumblebees’ best chance for survival.
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Jun 18, 2013
by Max J Muir, Open Democracy
The community growing movement in Scotland reveals a desire, and an opportunity, for a more profoundly democratic politics.
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Jun 18, 2013
by Brendan Barrett, OurWorld 2.0
Recently I read that our challenge in the twenty-first century is to triple global energy demand “so that the world’s poorest can enjoy modern living standards, while reducing our carbon emissions from energy production to zero”.
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Jun 18, 2013
by Matt Mushalik, Crude Oil Peak
Russia is at its 2nd and last oil peak. The easy oil is gone. The FSU export peak comes ahead of the production peak.
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Jun 18, 2013
by De Chantal Hillis, Shareable
During a Permablitz, an army of volunteers, friends, and neighbors descend on a home and transform the yard (back, front, or both) into a food-growing wonderland.
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Jun 17, 2013
by Justin Ritchie, Seth Moser-Katz
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In Extraenvironmentalist #61 we talk about historical economic transitions with professor, economist and author Rick Wolff and his recent book Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism.
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Jun 17, 2013
by Andrew Ranallo, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Beginning today, childcare centers throughout Minnesota are set to serve healthy, locally grown foods as part of a Farm to Childcare initiative—an innovative program designed in partnership between the Minnesota-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and childcare provider …
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Jun 17, 2013
by Charles Marohn, Strong Towns
I've spent the weekend pondering how to bring this series to a conclusion and I decided that these last two pieces -- the optimistic and the pessimistic view of the future -- will, for the sake of focus, have to deal with only a couple of variables.
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Jun 17, 2013
by Ida Kubiszewski, Robert Costanza
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It is time to consider a redesign of the university system in a way that takes advantage of recent Internet technology developments and addresses some of the social and economic problems surrounding higher education.
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Jun 17, 2013
by Vanessa Spedding, Vivid
Well, what if miracles can happen? Trying to help trigger one would be rather an adventure wouldn’t it? Come to think of it, miracles are happening all over the place, right now.
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Jun 17, 2013
by Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
A weekly update including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East North Africa, China, Quote of the Week, The Briefs
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Jun 17, 2013
by Charles Arthur, OurWorld 2.0
An innovative footwear manufacturer that pays fair wages and uses locally sourced materials is helping to transform the economic landscape in Ethiopia.
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Jun 17, 2013
by Jonathan Specht, Food Tank
...trimming our food waste is more important than composting our excess.