Social and Political
What Choices Can You Make?
by Deborah Niemann. Many people think that making the green choice is more expensive. Although this can be true, it doesn't have…
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A Time for Truth
by Marie T. Russell. There seems to be so many things going on these days that need to be addressed. I compare the situation to a…
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Towards The Common Good: Partnership with the Earth and All Its People
by Ellen LaConte. In a perfect world, the resources that all the world's people and other-than-human species depend upon would be…
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Emerging Cultural Movement: Being Part of an Inspired Community
by Kingsley L. Dennis, PhD. Civilizations emerge and evolve when they are governed by a creative minority that inspires the…
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The Myth of Progress vs. Sustainability and Treating All Life as Sacred
by Miles Olson. The myth of progress tells a story in which everything that came before this moment is useless and obsolete. Many…
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Mimicking Life -- Improving the Odds and Our Lives
by Ellen LaConte. We are not larger than Life, and we cannot live apart from Life though we have tried mightily to do just that.…
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Model For Megacities? Mexico City Cleans Up Its Air
With urbanization advancing, economies expanding, and climate change a concern, Mexico City has emerged as an unlikely…
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Waking Up to the Beauty of the Earth
by Anne Rowthorn. This is the time...to stand in awe before Earth and all the stars. The singing river calls us to sit on her…
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Earth Recovery: The 12-Step Method for Healing the Planet and Ourselves
by Partners For Planetary Recovery. Today, we are facing a life-threatening condition: the destruction of the environmental…
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Going to the Depths, Calling in the Light
by Sara Avant Stover. In September 2001 I spent three weeks in Nepal. One misty morning after a hearty breakfast in the village…
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Dreaming Deep Green, Imagining the Ecozoic: Imagine It, then Build It
by Ellen LaConte. Imagine that in this time ahead we do not live beyond Earth's means or behave as if we were larger than Life,…
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Can Social Systems Change to Create a Better World? They Did in the Past!
by Eleanor Boyle. It's hard to imagine wholesale changes to agriculture and food. Eating less meat is a shift that — in small…
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Detroit, Community Resilience and the American Dream
by Milicent Johnson. Detroit, in a lot of ways, parallels the track we are on as a nation. The snapshot of our future is staring…
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Too Bad! Obama Signs 'Monsanto Protection Act' Into Law
President Obama just-signed provision (March 28, 2013) prevents federal courts from stopping the planting of genetically…
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Can Domesticated Civilizations Find Balance?
by Miles Olson. If we take away the governing bodies that propel us to destroy our land base and each other; if the forces that…
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President Carter: The New Spokesperson for Preventative Medicine?
In this short four minute interview President Carter was asked if there was one thing he regretted not doing when he was…
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Seeking Balance by Releasing Control
by Richard Dupuis. With all the technology and modern conveniences we enjoy, living should be easier and more prosperous for…
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Things Are Getting Better!
by Marie T. Russell. Lately, some people have been saying: "Things are getting worse!" When you realize that what we focus on…
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Madness as a Path to Hypersanity: Saving Us From Ecological Disaster
by Seth Farber, Ph. D. Psychiatric heretic R. D. Laing wrote, “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being…
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Can People Change? What Can Be Done?
by Marie T. Russell. Someone said to me the other day that people don't change... as in "a leopard doesn't change its spots". Is…
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History Points Us to the Future
by Sylvia Clute. How to effect regime change without war was demonstrated by the nonviolent revolution in India led by Mahatma…
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The Whole Country Is Going Organic! Fact or Fiction?
by Marie T. Russell. There is a kingdom where farmers grow everything organically. There are no chemical fertilizers, no…
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What Is a Demitarian and Why Do More People Need To Become One?
Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world. People in the rich world should become "demitarians" – eating half as much…
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What is the Meaning of a Decent Society?
by Robert Reich. Raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 should be a no-brainer. When you add in the Earned Income Tax Credit…
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Big Brother - uh, Facebook - Is Watching!
Friends. We all love 'em! But are our Facebook Friends really friends or do they open us up to all kinds of privacy issues...…
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David vs Goliath in the US Supreme Court
As David versus Goliath battles go it is hard to imagine a more uneven fight than the one about to play out in front of the US…
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Regulation Has Minimal Effect On Jobs
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Washington Post
Does government regulation really kill jobs? Economists say overall effect minimal.
Beverly, Ohio — The Muskingum River coal-fired power plant in Ohio is nearing the end of its life. AEP, one of the country’s biggest coal-based utilities, says it will cut 159 jobs when it shuts the decades-old plant in three years — sooner than it would like — because of new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency.
About an hour’s drive north, the life of another power plant is just beginning. In Dresden, Ohio, AEP has hired hundreds to build a natural-gas-fueled plant that will employ 25 people when it starts running early next year — and that will emit far fewer pollutants.
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