Happy Eaarth Day?
(hat tip to Quark Soup and Climate Progress) Maybe you celebrated Earth Day, maybe you ignored it. Maybe you share the cynicism that has been becoming overt on more than a few environmental sites, or at least noticed it. For the international celebration of a cause that we are working for, articles like (just a […]
USA v UN: Who Best To Win the Future?
The protests were sparked by the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi on December 17, 2010, and continued until the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 28 days later, on January 14, 2011. This was the beginning of the Jasmine Revolution – still struggling to come to its feet – that has not only rocked […]
Earth Day 2011: Remembering Rachel Carson
Carson, credited as the founder of the contemporary environmental movement, and author of the landmark book, “Silent Spring,” touched off a major controversy on the dangers of pesticides in the early 1960’s. The well-funded campaign of disinformation that attempted to discredit and silence Carson, continues to dog environmental science nearly 50 years later.
“There is No Such Thing as the State: We Must Love One Another or Die”
By Kenneth Lipp Bradley Manning does not look any older in a uniform with a beret than he does in shorts and a T-shirt. You can look at him in any photo, even photos where dark abuse’s record appears in hematomas and lost elasticity of flesh—even there, you see a kind of melted youth, a […]
Love, Blood and Rhetoric
In the dim mists of time hundreds of us were gathered by a foundation to discuss how we were going to move from our then state of impending environmental crisis to a sustainable society. Demographically we were a sampling of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business people, NGO staffers, and community organizers. We talked and worked over […]
