Recently added articles from Synthesis/Regeneration:
Silver lining to economic downturn.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; Nickerson, Mike ... An alternative to panicking when GDP stops growing is to view it as a sign of maturity. Human activity cannot expand forever on our finite planet. An economy growing at 3% a year doubles its size every 24 years. Centuries of such growth have brought us to a mature size. As with individual ...
What's wrong with a 30-hour work week?(Climate Economics: Sense & Nonsense)(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; Fitz, Don ... With millions of jobs lost during the first part of 2009, who is calling for a shorter work week to spread the work around? Not the Republicans. Not even the Democrats. But why is there nary a peep from unions? In the US, auto sets the pace for organized labor. The only ...
Financing the empire.(Climate Economics: Sense & Nonsense)
Sep 22, 2009; Hudson, Michael ... I am traveling in Europe to discuss the global financial crisis with government officials, politicians, and labor leaders. What is most remarkable is how differently the financial problem is perceived over here. It's like being in another economic universe, not just another continent. ...
An economy that depends on endless war.(Climate Economics: Sense & Nonsense)(United States)(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Sullivan, Mary Beth ... Tuesday, August 5, 2008 All Souls Church, New York City. It is good, and right, and I would add, holy, that you have gathered here tonight to remember that 63 years ago our government dropped nuclear weapons onto the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I am honored and grateful to be here ...
Tax the rich!(A Win-Win Solution)(financial transactions tax )
Sep 22, 2009; Baker, Dean ... The quest to increase taxes on the wealthy is not a gratuitous attack on upper income households; it is driven by the need to raise more revenue to run the government. While many deficit hawks have been irresponsible in raising fears of an impending collapse of the American government, the ...
Working on the inside ... but for which side?(Climate Economics: Sense & Nonsense)(Van Jones)
Sep 22, 2009; Chretien, Todd ... Van Jones, one of the Bay Area's most important activist leaders and a well-known progressive voice nationally, has been appointed to serve in the Obama administration as "green jobs czar," charged with developing policies for federal investment in environmentally sustainable economic ...
20 theses against green capitalism.(Climate Economics: Sense & Nonsense)
Sep 22, 2009; ... [Below are a few critical theses against green capitalism. They were originally intended as an input for a meeting in Poznan discussing the mobilization towards/against the 2009 climate change summit in Copenhagen, but may be useful in all sorts of discussions.] No to false ...
Fooling with disaster?(Startling Revelations about Three Mile Island)(nuclear accident)
Sep 22, 2009; Sturgis, Sue ... It was April Fool's Day, 1979--30 years ago--when Randall Thompson first set foot inside the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, PA. Just four days earlier, in the early morning hours of March 28, a relatively minor problem in the plant's Unit 2 reactor sparked a series ...
Mexico's Shock Doctrine: the swine flu hype.(Tipping Point for a New Mexican Revolution)
Sep 22, 2009; Ross, John ... Upon returning to Mexico City after 100 days in Gringolandia, I was met at the door of the downtown hotel where I have bedded down for the past quarter century by a uniformed security guard in jackboots and blue surgical mask who insisted upon smearing my palm with a goopy hand sanitizer ...
Why should factory farming of swine and poultry create a pandemic influenza threat?(Biodevastation)(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; Cox, Stan ... We know that indiscriminate feeding of antibiotics to livestock has led to higher rates of human infection by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But how might factory-farming practices increase the threat from the influenza virus? Michael Greger, M.D., director of public health and ...
What will grow without oil?(Biodevastation)(food supply)
Sep 22, 2009; Myatt, Art ... Production and distribution of food are driven by the economy. Very few of us grow our own food or find it supplied by nature. We buy almost all our food. If industrial farming fails, we can either create a new system to deliver food or we can starve. When the economy is ...
"Consumerism" is dead--can Obama lead us to a downscaled lifestyle?(Less Energy)(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Kunstler, James Howard ... The public perception of the ongoing fiasco in governance has moved from sheer, mute incomprehension to goggle-eyed panic as the scrims of unreality peel away revealing something like a national death-watch scene in history's intensive care unit. Is the USA in recession, depression, or ...
Why energy efficiency isn't reducing consumption but how carbon rationing could.(Less Energy)
Sep 22, 2009; Fitz, Don ... Energy efficiency is not reducing the consumption of energy. This is true despite claims from green businesses, Al Gore, and Amory Lovins that it is the best way to cut down on use of coal, oil, gas, and nukes. Put these claims out of your mind for a couple of minutes and common sense will ...
Healing through the collaborative design process.(Less Energy)
Sep 22, 2009; Hatch, Dan ... An exclusive revolution There is a potential revolution on the horizon of the design profession. In fact, many people believe that it has already arrived. Look no further than the March, 2008 US Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Facts ...
Cohousing & ecovillage development.(A Strategy for Causing a Sustainable World)
Sep 22, 2009; Braford, Tom ... At the 2008 Prairie Festival in Salina, Kansas, the director of the Land Institute, Wes Jackson, talked about the Institute's plan to perennialize grain and legume crops and his call for a 50-year Farm Bill as a way to implement that plan. He said that if something is needed and possible, ...
British politics and the present crisis.(Thinking Politically)
Sep 22, 2009; Davies, Mike ... Britain faces the same grave and inter-related crises as the USA and the "western" world in general. As in the USA, the major British political parties offer no solution. We face a "technical" crisis in the way our economy has been run. This kind of crisis was familiar to Marx ...
How the color green can sometimes fade.(Thinking Politically)
Sep 22, 2009; Grossman, Victor ... In German, the color green has nothing to do with jealousy; it symbolizes hope. When the Greens got started back in the 1970s they did indeed breathe new hope into the stuffy atmosphere of West German politics. The groundwork was laid during the immense opposition to a nuclear energy plant ...
Behind the myths about Hamas.(Thinking Politically)
Sep 22, 2009; Kumar, Deepa ... Most mainstream accounts of the Palestinian Hamas organization present it as a bunch of rabid fanatics, bent on violence and motivated by an irrational hatred of Jews and the state of Israel. This view is reflected both in the mainstream media and in many books published on the topic. ...
You are being lied to about pirates.(Thinking Politically)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Hari, Johann ... Who imagined that in 2009 the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy--backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China--is sailing into Somali waters to take on men we still picture as ...
