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January 3, 2011, 8:15 pm
By TINA ROSENBERG

The city of Rio de Janeiro is infamous for the fact that one can look out from a precarious shack on a hill in a miserable favela and see practically into the window of a luxury high-rise condominium.  Parts of Brazil look like southern California.  Parts of it look like Haiti.  Many countries ( Read more... )

The most important decision Californian voters might ever make: Yes or no on the state's global warming law

By Andrew Leonard


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• By Herman K Trabish, greentechmedia.com 
• August 15, 2010  | 
• 10:30 am  | 
• Categories: Green Tech Biz
  

As the U.S. wind industry’s installed capacity went from 6.7 megawatts to 35,000 megawatts between 2004 and 2009, ( Read more... )

The City that Ended Hunger
“To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer.” CITY OF BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZIL

by Frances Moore Lappé
posted Feb 13, 2009

In writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one simple truth: Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a ( Read more... )

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On Monday, the question began to be answered, as Associated Press reported -- under the headline: "World Markets Struck By Swine Flu Fears" -- that: "World stock markets fell Monday as investors worried that a deadly outbreak of swine flu in Mexico could go global and derail any global economic recovery ( Read more... )

Again, alternative energy is an investment in the future and can help get our economy going. So if you look at insolation maps (incoming solar radiation) you see that Europe is kind of screwed when it comes to the solar revolution. They have lots of investment, but not so much sun. What they do have is wind, and of wind there is lots and lots ( Read more... )

I am a big believer of the tie between technological improvements and economic growth. There are lots of different ways to get an economy moving, but improvements in technology allow the price of goods to go down while also allowing for improvements in the quality of our lives. This story below is one example of one of the technologies that will ( Read more... )

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