Can a Divestment Campaign Move the Fossil Fuel Industry?
U.S. climate activists have launched a movement to persuade universities, cities, and other groups to sell off their investments in fossil fuel companies. But while the financial impact of such divestment may be limited, the campaign could harm the companies in a critical sphere — public opinion.
March 22, 2013
“Localization is the Economics of Happiness”
“The number of Americans who say, ‘Yes, I’m very happy with my life’ peaks in 1956 and goes slowly but steadily downhill ever since.”
February 18, 2011
Appalachia rising for a new economy
“The message for the White House and for Congress was simple,” said JW Randolph, a Tennessee native and an advocate with Appalachian Voices, a grassroots organization that opposes MTR mining: “Stop mountaintop removal and let us bring economic diversification to Appalachia.”
September 29, 2010
A crisis of democracy: Real solutions to the BP oil spill
For Gulf residents, the BP oil spill has made the problem of unchecked corporate power painfully clear. Exxon Valdez survivor Riki Ott on why this may be the moment to overcome our political divides and take back our democracy.
August 24, 2010
Want the Good Life? Your Neighbors Need It, Too
We live in a world of deep inequality, and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. We in the rich world generally agree that this is a problem we ought to help fix—but that the real beneficiaries will be the billions of people living in poverty. After all, inequality has little impact on the lives of those who find themselves on top of the pile. Right?
March 5, 2010
Slow Money: Bringing Money Down to Earth
Woody Tasch has thought a lot about money: what it does, how it moves, and how to connect people who have it with people who need it…But he found that even socially responsible investing couldn’t do much to fix an economy that focused too much on extraction and consumption and too little on preservation and restoration.
November 20, 2009