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Indicting Green Capitalism: Heather Rogers' Green Gone Wrong

Thursday, 06 May 2010 00:00 Matt Dineen
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ImageIn her new book, Green Gone Wrong, Heather Rogers interrogates the efficacy of what is offered to consumers by the Green Marketplace: organic and fair-trade foods, eco-architecture, bio-fuels, hybrid automobiles, and carbon offsets. Going beyond the soundbytes and slogans of corporate greenwashing and inconvenient half-truths, Green Gone Wrong paints a vivid and disturbing reality of environmentalism in the 21st Century.  

Last Updated on Thursday, 06 May 2010 08:16
 

Economic Power: Avoid Arizona and Boycott BP

Tuesday, 18 May 2010 10:51 Joel S. Hirschhorn
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ImageMoney is power. Each of us has it to varying degrees. Our challenge is to use our spending to advance worthy goals. Right now we see economic power being used against the state of Arizona because of the awful legislation recently passed that makes it all too easy for police there to seek proof of citizenship from virtually anyone they choose. Economic boycotts can be very powerful and change the world for the better. Sadly, too few Americans use their personal spending power to advance worthy goals. An immediate opportunity is for people to stop buying BP gasoline.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 10:51
 

The Urgency of Housing in Haiti

Tuesday, 27 July 2010 04:09 Beverly Bell
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Colette LespinasseColette Lespinasse is director of the Support Group for the Repatriated and Refugees (GARR, by its French acronym) in Port-au-Prince. Here are her thoughts on solutions to the crisis in which 1.9 million homeless people are still living in precarious tents and other makeshift structures, six months after the earthquake.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:44
 

Can Elections Restructure Sudan for Peace?

Tuesday, 25 May 2010 00:00 Rene Wadlow
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Omar al-Bashir
Omar al-Bashir
There are elections in countries with well-worn political structures, such as the recent elections in the United Kingdom. There, elections serve as a certain circulation of the elites and modest changes in policy. Then there are elections in countries that have not known multi-party elections in many years, where there are few existing political structures but a willingness to use violence for political ends and where the consequences of the elections are not clear. Such was the case with the April 11 elections in Sudan.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 May 2010 10:52
 

Will Halliburton Come Between You and Your Health Care?

Wednesday, 26 August 2009 10:31 Sandy LeonVest
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From racewire.orgWould Americans who don't want government coming between them and their health care prefer Halliburton play the role of the decider? One way or the other, we would all do well to pay close attention to what's going on in California right now. If the Golden State's reputation as a 'trend setter' holds true for health care, those in need of affordable health insurance could find themselves up against private contractors like Halliburton.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 August 2009 10:38
 
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