New Orleans Is All Of Us 

This article by Kimberly N. Ruffin appears in the current issue of Green Horizon Magazine (Fall/Winter 2009/10). Ms.Ruffin, an African American scholar teaching literature at Roosevelt College in Chicago, invites and urges the reader to respond to her challenging thoughts… more

Environmental justice 

Essay on a positive approach to environmental justice.  Greg Gerritt 2/28/08

Too much of the work of environmental justice is wrapped up in fighting the hazards that are found in low income and people of color communities.  We… more

Why I vote Green 

Why I am voting Green and why you might want to too. Greg Gerritt 2/8/08

I hate watching candidate debates, and very rarely do it.  I find the candidates they put on TV spout platitudes like Change, and… more

The Turning Point 

The Renaissance dates from the 14th century; the Enlightenment from the 18th; Socialism from the 19th.

I think, in retrospect, the 20th century will be remembered for the initiation of a cultural phenomenon that might be termed The… more

Cancer 

Cancer is the somatic expression of the buzz of hypermodernity.

Water supplies and global warming in RI 

Rhode Island is taking a long hard look at its future water supply, holding hearings at the State House, with a commitment by the President of the Senate (or at least his ghostwriter) to do something about water this year. … more

Localized Economics the Key for Green Development – Report from the Congo 

Alexander Petroff President, Working Villages International

Working Villages International /Villages de l’Avenir launched its pilot project in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Ruzizi Valley in April 2006.

Our mission is to help relieve the… more

Nature is nasty; no source for spirituality, say some 

Sue Grafton is a mystery writer. Her latest book, “Q is for Quarry,” is arguably one of her best. Towards the end, as her Kinsey Milhone is heroically on her way, in the dead of night in scary desert terrain,to… more

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