It’s nearing the end of day 48 of Occupy Wall Street. Yesterday (remarkably to me) 10,000 Occupy Oaklanders managed to bring the Port of Oakland to a standstill. Although there have been clashes and arrests there, as well as in other locales around the nation and the globe, overall this massive public demonstration has proved [...]
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Editorial: Occupy Wall Street/Gathering Hope
Posted in Environment, Literary Nature Writing, tagged Citizen Action, Climate Change, climate change politics, Gathering Hope, John Cobb, Lynton Caldwell, Occupy Wall Street, Politics, progressive politics, progressives, Steady State Economics, sustainability, Sustainable Economy, The Sustainability Project on November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Editorial: A Time of Optimism, A Time of Danger
Posted in Environment, Literary Nature Writing, tagged Citizen Action, Climate Change, climate change politics, Gathering Hope, John Cobb, Lynton Caldwell, Occupy Wall Street, Politics, progressive politics, progressives, Steady State Economics, sustainability, Sustainable Economy, The Sustainability Project on October 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In the early 1990s, with the environment in rapid decline, the idea of sustainability emerged. The term implied this question: How does society pass on to future generations a reasonably whole environment and a reasonably stable and fair economy, all within the framework of social justice? In 1993, Ann and I with several others founded [...]
Insanity
Posted in Environment, Natural History, Western Photography, tagged BlogActionDay 2009, Citizen Action, Climate Change, Copenhagen Climate Meeting, Politics on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This commentary is part of Blog Action Day 2009. For more information please visit www.blogactionday.org Thousands of top scientists from around the world have warned us. They have been out front, these researchers, these value neutral scientists. Any sane person can read about the dire scenarios of climate change. Maybe one half of all species [...]
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