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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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Earth Policy Institute Press Teleconference – How Food Shortages Could Bring Down Civilization
Teleconference: Thursday, April 23, 11:00 AM EDT Environmental Analyst Lester Brown: How Food Shortages Could Bring Down Civilization Washington, DC…
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The Gospel of Consumption
It’s with a degree of dark fascination I watch as the current financial crisis brings substantial funding to the same…
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Small is Beautiful
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins A journey of a thousand miles begins with etc etc. As ice sheets crack…
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Plastic Fetish
by George Monbiot – journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist Do you remember that unspeakably naff designer accessory,…
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In Memory of Dorothy Stang
Preamble: I post the following today, as next Wednesday night (8pm March 25, 2009) HBO2 in the U.S. is running…
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Veggie Garden on White House Lawn
We asked for it – a veggie garden on the White House lawn. Could this be true? ABC News’ Brian…
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Will Obama Allow Organic Farming and Farmers’ Markets to Effectively Get Banned?
A potential new legally enforced system of regulating how food is produced and processed currently before the U.S. Congress has…
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A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Editor’s Note: While we may tire of hearing bad news – the reality is that this tendency to only want…
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Zeitgeist Addendum
Some of you will have watched ‘Zeitgeist – the Movie‘. I don’t know about you, but I thought it was…
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