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The Rise of the New Economy Movement
By Gar Alperovitz, AlterNet ( Read more... ) -
There Is a Way! Beyond the Big, Bad Corporation
From AlterNet
By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Posted on May 21, 2012
As our political system sputters, a wave of innovative thinking and bold experimentation is quietly sweeping away outmoded economic models. In New Economic Visions, a special five-part AlterNet series edited by economics editor Lynn Parramore in partnership with political economist Gar ( Read more... ) -
The Seeds of a Quiet Economic Revolution: A Review of Gar Alperovitz's "America Beyond Capitalism"
Friday, 06 April 2012 10:17
By Maria Armoudian, Truthout | Book ReviewIt is not news that Americans overwhelming disapprove of the job Congress is doing. And likely, it's not surprising that two-thirds of Americans told a London-based firm, Absolute Strategy Research, that they believed that the economic system in the US is not working for most ( Read more... ) -
Food For Thought From My Former Summer Camp Councilor
Straight Talk with James Howard Kunstler: "The World is Going to Get Rounder and Bigger Again"
This week's Straight Talk contributor is James Howard Kunstler, author and social critic. His better-known works include The Long Emergency, in which he argues that declining oil production will result in the decline of modern industrialized society and ( Read more... ) -
Water: Tibet, China, and Asia
From The Epoch TimesSep 25, 2010 ( Read more... ) -
California's choice: Build the future, or burn the planet
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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But Will It Make You Happy?
From The NYTAugust 7, 2010 ( Read more... ) -
Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive
16 August 2010 Last updated at 07:51 ET
By Matthew Danzico
From BBC News, Washington
( Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books. But this trend in digital technology is now influencing some to get rid of nearly all of their physical possessions - from photographs to furniture to homes altogether. ) -
The Birth of a U.S. Wind Power Manufacturing Industry
- 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... ) -
Food Access Is A Basic Right!
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... )