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The decay of Canada illustrates two things. Corporate power is global, and resistance to it cannot be restricted by national boundaries. Remember back in the good old days when Canada stood for something? Sure, we were always going to be a pipsqueak among the big nation-states in the political game, but we had [...]  People will tell you Los Angeles is all about the car. That’s partly true, and much of the problem, although they have been trying lately by building new transit lines and bike lanes. But the city-wide no-walking-zone rumours are not true. It turns out that politicians, voters and plenty of volunteers have managed to preserve [...]
I am always happy to receive email with a blog-link to the latest post from Ivan Doumenc because I admire his insightful and inspirational dispatches from the front lines of the salmon wars. Also because it’s a powerful story I don’t see/hear/read in the traditional media… maybe because there are some huge institutional [...] The NY Times has an interesting debate going on about the use of technology to raise to raise crop yields in poor countries (in the Dot Earth blog run by Andrew Revkin which “which recently moved from the news side of The Times to the Opinion section”… a switch which used to mean something [...] There’s more to holiday gift-giving than the maul. Here’s a smart (as usual) take from The Nation on how to be nice this Christmas in ways that get progressively nicer. Best of all, it leads off with a nod to my fave do-good group, Heifer International! The second link takes you directly to a 30-second vid on why [...]
If you’re a book lover (yes, they still exist) you’ve probably shared the experience of finding a bookstore, any bookstore, and walking in with a sigh of delight, nostalgia and sadness. There’s so much going on in the modern bookstore that’s more about us as a society than it is [...] The New Scientist is confirming what Occupy Everywhere crowds are saying: capitalism’s unchecked growth has resulted in a few corporations wielding massive influence over the world. The magazine’s non-ideological, data-based study lists 147 leading corporations based on their inter-connections. Whether that’s the best yardstick of power we’ll leave to another discussion. Meanwhile, it’s probably enough to [...] Those accusing the Japanese government of failure in its basic duty to tell the truth about the potential health consequences from the nuclear plant disaster at Fukushima will not be surprised to read this from today’s NY Times. Although Tokyo is a long way from Fukushima, and most people have been comforted by official announcements that [...] We call it human “waste” but why? Uber urban farmer Chris Thoreau is putting his urine to good use “closing the cycle” on the food system. All these new city farms are going to need nutrients from somewhere, so which would you prefer, a factory chemical shipped from thousands of miles away or something you make yourself? VIDEO: [...]
As if it wasn’t hard enough growing food out of the concrete jungle, consider the plague of the two-legged pest. Most of us have lost food at some point to the urban ingrates. Thieves may not not be our most destructive pest — slugs take more from me every year — but for mental [...] |
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