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Disaster by Design? What’s Wrong with the “Thrive” Movement
by John Robbinsposted Aug 21, 2012 - A popular new film claims that a secret elite create our most troubling problems to advance a “global domination agenda.” Why Amy Goodman, Vandana Shiva, and other progressives are calling it “dangerously misguided.”
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Why Your Health Is Bigger Than Your Body
by Claudia Roweposted Aug 21, 2012 - New findings explain how politics, economics, and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.
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A Walk to Heal the Tar Sands
by Kristin Moeposted Aug 20, 2012 - Take an 8-mile trek with indigenous groups through one of the world's largest ecological dead zones, and you might find something lifegiving.
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Breaking Through Concrete: An Urban Farm Roadtrip
by David Hanson, Edwin Marty, Michael Hansonposted Aug 17, 2012 - Farmers across the country are taking to rooftops, vacant lots, any space they can find to build an urban farm revival.
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America’s Deficit Attention Disorder
by David Kortenposted Aug 10, 2012 - Money is the least of our problems. It’s time to pay attention to the real deficits that are killing us.
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A Critical Mass for Real Food
by Anim Steelposted Aug 06, 2012 - The old logic of the slave plantation is still the logic of our industrial food system, 500 years in the making. There’s a new way of thinking taking off.
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Fighting Coal While Supporting Miners?
by John C. Bergposted Aug 03, 2012 - Can you fight austerity and climate change at the same time?
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Blockade Aims to Stop Southern KXL Pipeline
by Christine Leclercposted Aug 03, 2012 - Activists in the Gulf Coast aren’t willing to stand by while a portion of the controversial pipeline gets fast-tracked.
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Paragliding Africa
posted Aug 01, 2012 - How one photographer captured the continent from the sky—with a fan strapped to his back.
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Bidder 70: The Tim DeChristopher Story
by Samantha Herndonposted Aug 01, 2012 - Last year, climate activist Tim DeChristopher went to jail for bidding $1.7 million (that he didn't have) to save 22,000 acres of public land from corporate extraction.
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How Cities Can Get Drivers Biking
by Jay Walljasperposted Jul 27, 2012 - How can planners attract the 60 percent of Americans who say they would bike more if they felt more secure? The answer could be cheap and simple.
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Carbon Neutrality: It’s Technically Possible
by Richard Conlinposted Jul 25, 2012 - The technology to achieve carbon neutrality exists, or could in the near future. What has to happen to put those capabilities in play?
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What We Learned From Swimming With Leeches
by Shannon Hayesposted Jul 25, 2012 - The appearance of “bloodsucking parasites” in one farm family’s pond got them thinking: How could we be so comfortable with our natural world, yet paranoid about harmless—and helpful—creatures in it?
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Occupy the Dam: Brazil’s Indigenous Uprising
by John Perkinsposted Jul 23, 2012 - In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the world’s third-largest dam—by dismantling it. Here’s what they can teach us about standing up to power.
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Climate Emergency Action Plan
by Sarah van Gelderposted Jul 20, 2012 - We can still avoid a devastating climate crisis, but we’ll need a World War II-level mobilization — and we’ll need to stand up to Dirty Energy.
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