Economics
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Oil and the Darfur Conflict
In a bid to join the dots a little further after the previous post, here’s an additional clip. This one…
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The Video Shell Doesn’t Want You to See
Photo credit: Ed Kashi The video below was originally displayed on wiwavshell.org – the website for the plaintiffs filing a…
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Blue Desert
Why is no one brave enough to stand up to the fishing industry? by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and…
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The Peasants Are Revolting
What are governments to do when an economic crisis hits, causing an already disproportionate number of poverty-stricken people to massively…
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The Story of Stuff
Did you know that the average house size in the United States is double what it was in the 1970s?…
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Why ‘Increased Energy Efficiency’ Won’t Save Us
There’s a lot of talk in political circles on how technology and ‘increased efficiency’ will save us from our socioeconomic…
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The Corporation
"If corporations are legally human – what kind of people are they?" No green website should go without making a…
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Osama Bin Lowrider: It’s All the Same Culture
Our political discussions and media coverage are far too shallow to be useful. We must go deeper and much further…
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Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Lester Brown In the May issue of Scientific American, Lester…
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Play the McDonald’s Video Game!
Today we look at another environmental feedback loop, and also put you in the driver’s seat of the world’s biggest…
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