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When Our Leaders Fail to Lead
David Korten
| Dec 02, 2009
On Tuesday night, President Obama announced his decision to increase U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan. It was a tragic error. He specifically said that to compare Afghanistan with Vietnam is a misreading of history. In a way, I would have to agree. We ultimately left Vietnam in humiliation. Afghanistan is not comparable, because our prospects […]
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Using the Clean Air Act to Cap Carbon
The Center for Biological Diversity
| Dec 02, 2009
The Center for Biological Diversity and 350.org today petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to set national limits for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution under the Clean Air Act. The petition seeks to have greenhouse gases designated as “criteria” air pollutants and atmospheric CO2 capped at 350 parts per million (ppm), the level leading […]
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Putting the Science of Happiness Into Practice
John de Graaf
| Dec 06, 2009
There has recently been a boom in the study of happiness. Its practitioners include economists who believe that gross domestic product (GDP) is too limited a tool to measure the success of societies, psychologists and sociologists who feel that their disciplines have focused too much on neuroses and social problems and not enough on determining […]
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The “Battle in Seattle” at 10
Mark Engler
| Nov 30, 2009
Ten years ago this fall, Kevin Danaher, the bareheaded, white-goateed co-director of Global Exchange was making the rounds to student groups, encouraging young people to take part in upcoming protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO). He had worked up a theatrical pitch:
“How many people here were at Woodstock?” he would ask, and, with […]
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Behind the Scenes of Seattle
Susan Gleason
| Dec 02, 2009
An enduring legacy of the historic popular uprising against the WTO in Seattle, in late November of 1999, is the battle for the story. To Alli Chagi-Starr, a core organizer leading up to, and during, the November 30th, 1999 protest, several key elements have been continually left out of the story-telling about this landmark event […]
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Looking Backward: Economics and the Cult of Yesterday
Jonathan Rowe
| Dec 01, 2009
One reason that the nation has not made more progress toward an economic “recovery” is that the people in charge really don’t know what one would look like. The top economists in Washington don’t appear to have asked the obvious question, “Recovery of what—and for what?” Instead they have followed the old drill, tried […]
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Growing Local: Interview with BALLE’s Michelle Long
Brooke Jarvis
| Nov 29, 2009
Bellingham, Washingon is the nation’s leader in community green power, was named the number one small city in the nation in urban progress toward sustainability, and is home to businesses, consumers, and government programs that make creating a "local living economy" a priority.
As co-founder and director of Sustainable Connections, a non-profit network of nearly […]
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The Story of Cap & Trade
Annie Leonard
| Dec 01, 2009
If you’re like me, an increasing amount of your worries these days focus on the rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and the resulting potential for devastating climate chaos.
Years ago, when I first heard about climate change, I figured someone else would work all that out while I kept plodding away with my […]
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