New data shows that there are far more Americans living on the edge of poverty than official figures claim Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in...
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Review: Requiem for a Species Blaming individuals breeds climate pessimism
Clive Hamilton’s pessimism about climate change activism flows from his assumption that individual consumers are to blame. Capitalism is the elephant in the room Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter...
OPTional reading: Comments from a drive-by populationist
The head of Optimum Population Trust has set a new record for comments in one day. Should we feel complimented? Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens...
Betsy Hartmann: Beyond apocalypse and back to Earth
Video: International women's health activist Betsy Hartmann discusses the roots and impact of apocalyptic thinking in American environmentalism
Video: David Harvey speaks at #Occupy London Stock Exchange
“It’s people on the street, in the squares, that really matters in the end. Because that is the only political force we’ve got.” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...
How to feed 9 billion without destroying the planet
Researchers at the University of Minnesota show that sustainable agricultural can deliver enough food for everyone — if humanity works together to make it happen Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter...
The Denial Tango
From Australia, Men With Day Jobs sing ... "And as the waters rise around me I'll just hold my breath and say, it isn't so!"
Lessons of #Occupy: Don't agonize, organize!
Collective political action is the key to the 99% turning their immense potential power into actual power that can end the tyranny of the 1%. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to...
Indigenous Environmental Network on pipeline decision:We won the battle, not the war
The delay buys time to strengthen our organizing work to stop the pipeline entirely. We will work to ensure this moment is remembered as the beginning of the end for the tar sands. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
An open letter to the 1 per cent: You cannot evict ideas
You and your tiny minority cannot evict these ideas: they are simply too important, too long overdue, and too big to fail. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a...