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Shiva: Climate Change at the Third Pole
Commentary, May, 17 2009
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
I write from Ladakh, where we are studying the impact of climate change and evolving participatory adaptation and disaster preparedness strategies with local communities.
Tokar: Social Ecology: Resistance and Reconstruction
Znet Article, May, 06 2009
Brian Tokar
Tokar's ZSpace page
With all the debates and controversies that surrounded Murray Bookchin's many years of active political engagement, few commentators have addressed the lasting influence he had on the social and environmental movements of the past four decades.
Monbiot: How Much Should We Leave in the Ground?
Blog Post, May, 06 2009
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Here are some estimates for total allowable fossil fuel and a call for a global moratorium on all new fossil fuel prospecting.
Pilger: Wine: The Reds are Revolting
Commentary, April, 16 2009
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
My parents grew up in the mining town of Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. The main street had hitching posts and was as wide as a paddock, and the general store was shaded by a vast awning of corrugated iron and offered liquori...
Hahnel: Climate Risks: Lessons From The Financial Crisis
Znet Article, April, 15 2009
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
Among the many talking points that Wall Street emphasized in its successful efforts to de-regulate the financial industry over the past three decades was that it was more sophisticated now than it was back in the 1920s - it knew how to manage risk...
Monbiot: Plastic Fetish
Commentary, April, 10 2009
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Do you remember that unspeakably naff designer accessory, "I'm Not a Plastic Bag"? The "design", by Anya Hindmarch, involved thinking up the gauchest slogan ever contrived then printing it on a white shopping bag of the kind old ladies used in the...
Raptis: One More Quake
Commentary, April, 09 2009
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
The "experts" (seismologists, etc) were telling the people of the L'Aquila area in Italy that there place was not quake-prone. So it was said in the evening news. The present quake was 6.3 Richters and must have lasted for only [about] 17 seconds....
Glick: Is "Washington" Winning?
Commentary, April, 03 2009
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
It was a couple of weeks before the historic March 2nd shutdown action at the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant on Capitol Hill in D.C. A national leader of an important climate group came up to me in the hallway at a conference we were both attendin...
Cronan jr: EFCA and the Green Economy
Blog Post, April, 02 2009
John Cronan jr
Cronan jr's ZSpace page
Why the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is integral to transitioning to a green economy.
Brecher: How to Pay for a Global Climate Deal
Znet Article, March, 31 2009
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
If leaders at the G-20 summit can create “paper gold†to jump-start the global economy, they can also turn it in a green direction to jump-start protection of the global climate.
Monbiot: Woodchips With Everything
Commentary, March, 29 2009
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe...
Moore: Mining and the Right of Way in Ecuador
Znet Article, March, 27 2009
Jennifer Moore
Moore's ZSpace page
Indigenous leaders delivered a lawsuit in Quito last Tuesday before Ecuador's Constitutional Court asking that the country's new mining law be declared unconstitutional.
Sharma: Do GM Crops Increase Yield? The Answer is No
Commentary, March, 25 2009
Devinder Sharma
Sharma's ZSpace page
Lies, damn lies, and the Monsanto website. Tell a lie a hundred times, and the chances are that it will eventually appear to be true. When it comes to genetically modified crops, Monsanto makes such an effort – and it could be that you too are d...
Foster: Keynes, Capitalism, and the Crisis
Znet Article, March, 20 2009
John bellamy Foster
Foster's ZSpace page
John Bellamy Foster Interviewed by Brian Ashley, Co-Managing Editor of Amandla
Davidson: Dynamic Duo: Green Jobs Meets the Solidarity Economy
Blog Post, March, 16 2009
Carl Davidson
Davidson's ZSpace page
Carl Davidson's Discussion of the green and solidarity economies, with an overview of 'Green Collar Economy' by Van Jones.
Glick: Powering Past Coal
Commentary, March, 13 2009
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
It was tremendous to be part of the crowd of thousands of people demonstrating last Monday, March 2nd at the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant on Capitol Hill. But I wonder how many of those who have heard about this action or who even took part are ...
Landau: The Crisis Unseen
Commentary, March, 03 2009
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
After the November election, liberal Democrats began to scream for rapid bailouts and threw money at bankers who then shocked the lawmakers by behaving like bankers. They took the taxpayers' money and spent it on themselves. "Let me tell you about...
Fitz: The Best Way to Protect Jobs in Auto Is To Stop Making Cars
Znet Article, March, 01 2009
Don Fitz
Fitz's ZSpace page
Social unionism is most needed in times of crisis. Auto is truly in crisis. According to the February 14, 2009 Wall Street Journal, car sales have dropped to a 30 year low.
Goodman: Toxins ’R’ Us
Znet Article, February, 26 2009
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
Is your lipstick laden with lead? Is your baby's bottle toxic? The American Chemistry Council assures us that "we make the products that help keep you safe and healthy." But U.S. consumers are actually exposed to a vast array of harmful chemicals ...
Wilson: Farm "Shock Doctrine?"
Blog Post, February, 24 2009
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
One example of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine may be found in the implementation of a 1962 plan to quickly eliminate "excess resources," in U.S. agriculture, one third of U.S. farmers and farm workers.
