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Global Warming, Hitler and World War II Rationing
Peer pressure, national pride, and legal mandates worked together against the common evil It’s an unusual title, I know –…
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The Food Crisis: “A Perfect Storm” – and How to Turn the Tide
A recently released study, the largest of its kind, examines the root causes of, and solutions for, a food crisis…
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Powering Down – Will We?
Most underestimate the implications… Through our Hollywood-tinted glasses we’re accustomed to happy endings. The instinctive “it won’t happen to me” mentality…
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New Beginnings?
Click for larger view Courtesy: Throbgoblins I don’t blame old Cantankerous Frank here (at right) for getting all excited. Everyone…
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The Flaw of Western Economies
by Marcin Gerwin, Sopot, Poland. Marcin graduated with a Ph.D. in political studies, from the University of Gdansk, Poland, with…
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Escaping the Matrix – Lifestyles Without Limits
How many of you remember having to share the bath water with your siblings? A few baby boomers may get…
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The Rise and Predictable Fall of Globalized Industrial Agriculture
Today I’d like to introduce you to a (well written and beautifully presented) report, titled – ‘The Rise and Predictable…
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Learning from the Past
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Our twenty-first century global civilization is not the first to…
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Congestion Explained
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins On my way to work this morning I was obliged to abandon the bus…
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This is What Denial Does
The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause. by George Monbiot…
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The Other Bail-Out
Another set of corporations is pressing for public money. Governments should let them die. by George Monbiot – journalist, author,…
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