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Local power | Renewable energy

Where There’s a Way

Where there's a way, by Michael M’Gonigle. Global Trade Agreements are just the latest way local communities are losing control over the surrounding forests and the watersheds. If there was a way to reclaim the commons, might there also be a political will?
Michael M'Gonigle    |   Jul 1, 2001

What To Do When Corporations Rule the World

What to do when Corporations Rule the World, an interview with David Korten by Sarah van Gelder. Authors converse about threats to democracy and the environment posed by corporate globalization.
David Korten    |   Jul 1, 2001

Right Livelihood

Is the work we are doing good for the Earth and its inhabitants now and for seven generations into the future?
Matthew Fox    |   Apr 1, 2001
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Jobs

Why Work?

Bob Black, Why Work? Examines the stultifying impact of work and jobs and advocates the abolition of most production and the tranformation of work to play.
Bob Black    |   Apr 1, 2001

India’s Silent But Singing Revolution

India's silent but singing revolution, by Pramila Jayapal. Swadyaya social movement in India is based on the belief that God resides within, all people and nature are connected, and a person's responsibility is only to do one's duty to the best of one's capability for God and without attachment to the fruits of the labor.
Pramila Jayapal    |   Oct 27, 2000

Garden of Simplicity

garden of simplicity, by Duane Elgin. Simplicity is the new mantra for the overworked, over-stressed, and over-cluttered, and for those who want to lighten their impact on the Earth. The author of the classic book on voluntary simplicity says the ways to simplicity are many.
Duane Elgin    |   Oct 27, 2000
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Song of the Land

Mohave Creation Song cycle describes relation of the Mohave to their land and helps prevent Ward Valley from becoming a nuclear waste dump.
Philip M. Klasky    |   Oct 1, 2000
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Simplicity Double-Speak

When big media attempts to horn in on the simplicity movement, author and voluntary simplicity spokeperson Vicki Robin draws a line in the sand
Vicki Robin    |   Jul 1, 2000
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Hog Heaven

combining some old-fashioned animal husbandry with new, low-tech facility design and sophisticated ideas about the relationships between livestock and the land.
Brian DeVore    |   Jul 1, 2000
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