February 2012
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The People’s Media →
The public interest community and media justice organizations continue to fight for policies that will create a more democratic media system. We need policies that decentralize control of our media system and allow the voices of ordinary people to be heard rather than giving greater power to corporate gatekeepers.
This is critically important for people of color. We have seen the damage...
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What If Corporations Couldn't Use Our Commons For... →
There’s been much discussion of late about how to save America’s declining middle class. The answer politicians of both parties give is always the same: jobs, jobs, jobs. The parties differ on how the jobs will be created — Republicans say the market will do it if we cut taxes and regulation, Democrats say government can help by investing in infrastructure and education. Either way, it...
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Folks, This Ain't Normal: Joel Salatin at the 92nd... →
I haven’t seen the movie, “Food, Inc.,” so I didn’t know what sustainable farmer Joel Salatin looked like until I saw him take the stage Monday night at the 92nd Street Y.
I was immediately struck by his crisp gray suit and his red power tie. For all his subsequent talk about poop, Salatin’s corporate look announced that he means business. And that business...
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Put planet and its people at the core of... →
Social and environmental costs need to be integrated into measurement of economic activity, a new UN report said on Monday as it urged world leaders to focus on the long-term resilience of the planet and its people.
The report from the high-level panel on global sustainability calls for a set of sustainable development indicators that go beyond the traditional approach of gross domestic ...
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Clinging to economic growth suffocates the... →
Listen to the news today and you would think that economic growth was the only answer to all our problems. But 40 years ago The Limits to Growth, written by a group of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and published by The Club of Rome, broke a modern taboo: it suggested that growth itself might be the problem.
It wasn’t the first time someone had suggested that an...