global warming and water
I recently testified in front of the RI joint Senate committee looking at Water issues in RI. The committee is mostly receiving testimony on the current state of affairs, so I tried to provide a bit of the long term… more
Young people, social change, sustainability
The evening of January 10 George W. Bush made a speech saying he had decided to escalate the U.S. involvement in Iraq ... despite the electorate’s desire to end the fiasco. This presidential decree was so outrageous that there were… more
Indications of hope as we enter the new year
The Tuscaloosa Cooperative Association (TCA) welcomes participation on our e-list by individuals and families interested in: Community-Supported Agriculture; permaculture; geothermal and solar energy; cohousing; ecovillage development; and sustainable living in general. The list will serve as a forum for free… more
Carsharing program in Ithaca, NY
Forward from: Liz Walker
Date: Saturday, December 2, 2006
Here is a wonderful local success story. Several years ago, students in an Ithaca College “Sustainable Communities” class taught by EcoVillage at Ithaca resident Elan Shapiro (as… more
Green America … change the world
Regarding “saving the planet,” someone on the California Green Party discussion list wrote:
> ... actually, in a sense, this is entirely
> out of our control… there are 300 million
> Americans on… more
Long view re: the project of Green transformation
Understanding the social and ecological crises of our times requires an appreciation of how radical and disruptive the transition to modernity has been.
For all of human history prior to the onset of the gradually accelerating pattern of… more
The third party alternative is called “Green”
Thomas Friedman in the New York Times (5/3/06):
> The situation is ripe for [a third party]:
> America is facing a challenge as big as the
> cold war - how we satisfy… more
Whose Earth Day? - Part 3 (conclusion)
Adapted from an article by David Watson
which appeared in the Spring 1990 issue
of Fifth Estate magazine
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