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After Rana Plaza: Let’s Bring Humanity Back Into Our Stuff
We all know our stuff doesn't grow on store shelves. Here's how we can rehumanize our relationship with our things - and the people who make them.
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In Oil-Producing Regions, Even Minor Hurricanes Cause Major Environmental Damage
Report: 130 accidents resulted from Category 1 Hurricane Isaac.
San Francisco’s Green Power Plan Still Stalled by Corporate Interests a Decade Later
San Francisco's CleanPowerSF, initially calling for over a billion dollars in renewable energy a decade ago, has been attacked and subverted despite its popularity.
Royals and Aristocrats Seek Big Gains From Fracking in Britain
The British government wants to be u201ca leader of the shale gas revolutionu201d and is offering massive tax breaks to the industry, despite its devastating ecological impact.
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Global Harms Need a Global Remedy: Small but Meaningful Victory against Hudbay Minerals
After human rights violations were perpetrated by a Canadian mining company against a Guatemalan village, the village fought back in court.
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Offshore Fracking Uproar Grows in California In Wake of Truthout Report
Since Truthout revealed that federal regulators have approved at least two fracking operations off the California coast, the uproar has intensified.
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Has Our Species Become Insane?
Terrible things are habitually done by sociopaths in power; starting and waging unjustified and illegal wars; building vast war machines; creating and threatening to use weapons which incinerate huge …
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Has Our Species Become Insane?
Terrible things are habitually done by sociopaths in power; starting and waging unjustified and illegal wars; building vast war machines; creating and threatening to use weapons which incinerate huge …
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Journalism: You Know It When You See It
Thom Hartmann: "I know journalism when I see it. And anyone who informs the public about what's going on in the world, in the halls of Congress, or on …
Kathi Weeks: We Work Too Damn Hard!
Author and Duke professor Kathi Weeks takes a look at the politics of work and the American work ethic: What makes us willing to concede to demands that workers …