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Feb 11, 2013
by Paula Williams, A prosperous way down
Americans’ level of concern for the environment waxes and wanes, depending on how the economy is faring, as illustrated in the 2011 Gallup chart below. The chart shows responses to the question whether the economy or the environment should be given preference asked from 1985 through 2011. …
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Feb 5, 2013
by Pamela Palmater, On the Commons
Since last November, a grassroots, indigenous-led movement has swept Canada and drew the world’s attention to new initiatives from the Canadian government that threaten the environment and indigenous communities. Of particular concern is Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s …
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Feb 1, 2013
by Stuart Jeanne Bramhall, Daily Censored
Crossroads is an exciting and surprisingly uplifting new documentary about the role of ideology in finding solutions to the urgent global crises humankind faces in the 21st century. In bringing an evolutionary perspective to these urgent economic and ecological crises, the film offers a uniquely …
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Jan 28, 2013
by Andrea Brower, Common Dreams
If we create and recreate the world everyday, then how has it become so supposedly absurd to believe we might actually create a world that is honestly making the possibilities of egalitarianism, justice and democracy?
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Dec 4, 2012
by Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
In this essay, which will appear in five installments, I hope to explore some of the social implications of simplification and decentralization. Will wars and revolutions break out with ever-greater frequency?...Or will local food networks and Occupy groups positively transform society from the …
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Nov 1, 2012
by David Bollier, STIR
It is easy to lapse into cynicism when the world is so royally messed up and fortified against serious reform.
