Society
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Why Buses Represent Democracy in Action (TED video)
"An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use…
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Transylvanian Count to Chair Bloodbank
A new government appointment provides a chilling insight into its priorities. by George Monbiot (UK) You want to appoint a…
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Interview with Richard Heinberg: Do We Really Need Economic Growth?
Marcin Gerwin (Poland): For most heads of states, the prime minister of Poland included, the central point of economic policy…
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“Managing Transparency”
Editor’s Note: It’s hard to overstate the importance of fighting these behind-the-scenes actions by corporate lobbyists and lawyers. See Box…
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Hidden Interests
The BBC’s disgraceful failure to reveal who its contributors are speaking for. by George Monbiot Do the BBC’s editorial guidelines…
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Improving Democracy Through Deliberation – Interview with Lyn Carson
Source: flickr Lyn Carson is a professor with the Business Programs Unit at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research…
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Spend, Don’t Mend
Advertising and consumerism dull our capacity for empathy. by George Monbiot Guilt is good. It’s the feature that distinguishes the…
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Moving Up the Food Chain
by Lester R. Brown For most of the time that human beings have walked the earth, we lived as hunter-gatherers.…
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A Vision for Architecture as More Than the Sum of Its Parts
How Modernist Fundamentalism degrades the human and natural environment. by Michael W. Mehaffy & Nikos A. Salingaros Historic Paris and…
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Gangi Setty and the Green Tree Foundation Project (India)
The Green Tree Foundation is a small non-profit organization that promotes permaculture techniques to local farmers in the Antapur district…
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Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA Betrayed the World’s Trust — Time to Act
Recent events have highlighted, underlined and bolded the fact that the United States is performing blanket surveillance on any foreigner…
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Remember Saro-Wiwa – Free the Arctic 30
This week, eighteen years after his death, we remember Ken Saro-Wiwa, and the many environmental defenders who have followed him.…
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