Category Archives: ENVIRONMENT

Trends in Income Inequality: The Endgame Is Extreme Civil Unrest

Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 by meganwilson
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Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 by meganwilson
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Climate Change: The Evidence and Our Options

Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 by andycox

A nice paper summing up the evidence and conesquences of continued use of fossil fuels by Lonnie Thompson from Ohio State University. http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/TBA–LTonly.pdf The paper references this website http://cascade.wr.usgs.gov/data/Task2b-SFBay/ which uses Google Earth to illustrate possible sea level rises due to … Continue reading →

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Where is the Press? Amy Goodman Reports From the Empty Media Center at Center at UN Climate Summit

Posted on Sunday, December 12, 2010 by meganwilson

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was startled to find the press room at the U.N. Climate Change Conference eerily quiet this week. Rows and rows of computers sat unused. At last year’s climate meeting in Copenhagen, the room was buzzing … Continue reading →

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SOLUTIONS: AgenKultur

Posted on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 by meganwilson

Great organization in Indonesia! AGENKULTUR Agenkultur born in a hysterical space of billboards among the massive icons of globalization and in the crowd of local culture stagnancy. It grew up among the fast food industry, phantasm of high class society … Continue reading →

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Creative Capitalism

Posted on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 by meganwilson

Bill Gates discusses “Creative Capitalism” as an alternative to Capitalism: Example of “Creative Capitalism” in action:

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Consumerism and Climate Change

Posted on Monday, November 15, 2010 by andycox

These two articles in today’s NY Times point to the core contradiction of our times: U.S. Retail Sales Post Biggest Gain in 7 Months in October As Glaciers Melt, Science Seeks Data on Rising Seas We are still judging “success” … Continue reading →

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They thought the party would last forever …

Posted on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 by meganwilson
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I REMEMBER, SO I’M VOTING

Posted on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 by meganwilson
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The Ten Biggest American Cities That Are Running Out Of Water

Posted on Monday, November 1, 2010 by meganwilson

24/7 Wall St Some parts of the United States have begun to run low on water. That is probably not much of a surprise to people who live in the arid parts of America that have had water shortages for … Continue reading →

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