Imagine if Exxon had told the truth on climate change October 28, 2015 Bill McKibben With the oil giant vouching for the science of climate change 25 years ago, there is no way we would have wasted decades in fruitless argument Like all proper scandals, the #Exxonknew revelations have begun to spin off new dramas…
As the mainstream corporate media outlets highlight the WHO study released last week, Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini offers a succinct and rational response – eat less meat, skip the hysteria. Petrini: “Let’s eat less meat, but avoid cheap scaremongering” 28 October 2015 Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini responds to the WHO study… The fact…
From Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog: The Republican Study Committee wants to ratchet austerity up well past the sequester by Josh Bivens October 22, 2015 A bit over four years ago, the U.S. economy threatened to breach the legislated (and totally arbitrary) national debt ceiling. There was no economic sign…
From FreePress.net: Big Phone and Cable’s Summer Hack-a-thon September 3, 2015 In the last few weeks at least five anti-Net Neutrality Op-Eds have appeared in newspapers around the country. These pieces strike suspiciously familiar notes — and in some cases use identical language. All of this begs the obvious question: Did the phone and cable…
From Sonoma Land Trust: Ten years ago, with the support of our members, we purchased the Sears Point property. This month, we reach our goal of restoring tidal marsh at the edge of San Francisco Bay. Join us to witness the return of the tides to nearly 1,000 acres that had been sealed off from…
From RootsAction.org
Originally published at Resilience.org The Problem of Agriculture by Robert Jensen [This is an excerpt from the new book Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully, published by Counterpoint/Soft Skull, which tells the story of Robert Jensen’s intellectual and political collaboration with teacher/activist Jim Koplin. http://www.amazon.com/Plain-Radical-Living-Learning-Gracefully/dp/1593766181] I was born and raised…
