Tell banks not to finance the Jaitapur nuclear power plant in India. Despite the nuclear disaster at Fukushima witnessed by the world, there are plans … NewsRead more
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Posted inMultimedia / Politics / Social
Smile or Die
Smile or Die, How positive thinking fooled America and the world, Barbara Ehrenreich [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo]
Posted inMultimedia / Organic / Social
Student-Organized Farmers Markets
Sacramento High School students creating their own CSA to an after-school program based on an urban farm. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me7GL25_cYk]
Posted inPolitics / Social / ToMl
Is the World Too Big to Fail?
The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular forces — coinciding, fortuitously, with a … Is the World Too Big to Fail?Read more
Posted inPolitics / Social / ToMl
Environmentalism in communist East Germany
When the GDR was founded, one of its many promises to workers was clean working conditions, without the polluted air and water imposed by capitalist … Environmentalism in communist East GermanyRead more
Posted inEconomics / Iraq / Politics
Fuel on the fire
Plans to exploit Iraq’s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world’s largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role … Fuel on the fireRead more
Posted inMedia
Parents and six children
[Read this only if you are above 18.] It was in January 2005, and I was embedded with U.S. Army troops in Tal Afar in … Parents and six childrenRead more
Posted inEnergy / Renewable / Solar
Optical battery
A dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional semiconductor-based solar cells. The … Optical batteryRead more