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Commentary :: Don鈥檛 Be Nice鈥擝e Kind
Niceness is often filled with falseness鈥攊t is a way to not tell the truth, or to obscure it. 鈥淏e nice!鈥� is something many of us heard as children as a way of avoiding upsetting someone鈥� it鈥檚 not effective in the long run as a way to come together to solve the myriad difficulties facing our communities, both local and global.
Life, Liberty, Water
As climate change and worldwide shortages loom, will people fight over water or join together to protect it? A global water justice movement is demanding a change in international law to ensure the universal right to clean water for all.
Mexico’s Grassroots Answer to NAFTA
NAFTA was sold as a win-win. After 14 years of losing, Mexican farmers are making their own trade rules鈥攆air ones.
Make Us Safer and Save Billions
It鈥檚 called 鈥渄efense鈥� spending, but how much of it is actually about defense? Here鈥檚 how we could save billions, and still have billions left to make the U.S.
and the world more secure.
Just the Facts: Foreign Aid vs. Military Spending
The U.S. spends piles of money on foreign aid, right? See how the spending actually stacks up.
Secretary of State says, 鈥淣o Nuclear Weapons鈥�
Sarah van Gelder interviews former Secretary of State, George Shultz, who advocates abolition of nuclear weapons as the means to stop further proliferation and avert dangerous terrorism or all-out war.
Heal the Warrior, Heal the Country
Breaking the cycle of war making: our country will not find peace until we take responsibility for our wars.
What鈥檚 possible in a post-carbon world
Can we get to a post-carbon world? Guy Dauncey shows how to make buildings, electricity, transportation, food, and forests climate friendly. Yes, we can.
Who’s Willing to Step Up?
It turns out people are willing to make sacrifices to stop Global Warming: polling data from 23 countries confirms that people are ready to do what it takes.
The Amazing Power of Green Slime
Using algae for biofuels as a possible solution. The oil in algae can be converted into biodiesel and its carbohydrate components into ethanol.
Terra Preta, a Solution Buried in the Dirt
Agrichar is another solution to reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.
Just the Facts : Global Warming and Climate Solutions
Climate’s Vicious Cycle A penguin walking on a melting glacier. Photo illustration by Hiroshi Howell/Getty Images We Are 2掳 from Disaster: How to Turn it Around Rising sea levels threaten
Who鈥檚 Responsible? 100 Years of CO2
Who鈥檚 Responsible for 100 Years of CO2: Our 猫咪社区! Magazine Graphic gives Just the Facts on global warming and global equity.
Sustainable Appalachia: The Healing Harvest Forest Foundation
Over the past decade, a growing network of practitioners across Appalachia have chosen to live with horses in a utilitarian way. They are using horse power to practice 鈥渞estorative forestry.鈥�
The Fierce Urgency of Now
A call for beloved communities from Grace Lee Boggs: "We are living in a time of great peril and possibility."
猫咪社区! But How? Green Burials, Plastic Bags, and Rain Barrels
Practical tips on green burials, rain water collection, and vegetable storage without plastic.
Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep from Singing?
In a 2007 interview, folk singer Pete Seeger talks about hitchhiking with Woody Guthrie, inspiring people with music, and the power of millions of small changes.
The Greatest Danger
In the face of global warming it is hard to escape a sense of outrage, fear, despair. Author, deep-ecologist, and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy says that speaking the truth of our anguish for the world brings down the walls between us, drawing us into deep solidarity.
Preparing for a Post-Carbon World
The Transition Town movement brings neighbors together to prepare their communities for a post-carbon world. And finds that "the future with less oil could be preferable."
Appalachia鈥擠own a Greener Road
In Appalachia people have learned that going green isn't all about what you have to give up, but it can make your life richer. The Central Appalachian Network hatched hundreds of new businesses, and inspired many more to a shift to local, organic sales.
The Secret Life of Plug-In Cars
Plug-in hybrids and electric cars can run on wind or solar power, and driving an all-electric vehicle cuts greenhouse gas emissions by up to 65 percent. A cool car review from Plug In America.
13 Best Energy Policy Ideas (And a Couple of Duds)
Investment in energy projects will total $16 trillion in the next two decades. Sarah van Gelder lays out over a dozen sustainable energy policies and technologies that can make our infrastructure more climate friendly.
We Are 2掳 from Disaster: How to Turn it Around
A 2-degree rise in temperature is the most the Earth can tolerate without dangerous climate change, scientists tell us.
Ecuador Offers a Half-Off Climate Swap
The ITT oil fields, located within Ecuador's Yasun铆 National Park, have become the center of an experiment that could bring equity and human rights into the climate equation.
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