Published on Friday, November 20, 2009 by The Nation An Inconvenient Solution Al Gore’s “Our Choice” by Bill McKibben Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was one of the high points not only of the environmental movement but also of the documentary tradition in America. He figured out how to use a new medium, PowerPoint, to [...]
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An Inconvenient Solution
November 20, 20098 Steps Obama Could Take to Save Our Food System
November 20, 2009Published on Friday, November 20, 2009 by Civil Eats 8 Steps Obama Could Take to Save Our Food System by Robyn O’Brien The landscape of health has changed. No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s and allergies. In the words [...]
UN Urges Global Action on Children
November 20, 2009Published on Friday, November 20, 2009 by Al Jazeera English UN Urges Global Action on Children The UN children’s agency says one billion children around the world are still deprived of food, shelter, clean water and healthcare 20 years after the adoption of a treaty guaranteeing children’s rights. Palestinian girls release balloons with messages [...]
Pap and John Perkins Discuss “Hoodwinked”
November 20, 2009Pap and John Perkins Discuss “Hoodwinked” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfifhxrUwX0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXElBxynHbs&NR=1
As Wall Street Posts Record Profits and US Hunger Rate Grows, Robert Scheer Asks: “Where Is the Community Organizer We Elected?”
November 19, 2009http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/19/as_wall_street_posts_record_profits As Wall Street Posts Record Profits and US Hunger Rate Grows, Robert Scheer Asks: “Where Is the Community Organizer We Elected?”
Shunning Dissidents, Obama Leaves China Without Firm Pledges on Trade, Climate
November 19, 2009http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/19/shunning_dissidents_obama_leaves_china_without Shunning Dissidents, Obama Leaves China Without Firm Pledges on Trade, Climate
Outspoken Afghan MP says Canadian mission is a big waste of time
November 19, 2009Published on Thursday, November 19, 2009 by The Toronto Star ‘Liberation Was Just a Big Lie’ Outspoken Afghan MP says Canadian mission is a big waste of time by Olivia Ward She sleeps in safe houses, with a rotating squad of bodyguards securing the doors. She goes out only in a billowing burqa. Even her [...]
The New (Green) Arms Race
November 19, 2009Published on Thursday, November 19, 2009 by Huffington Post The New (Green) Arms Race by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Hobbled by opposition from the carbon incumbents and their short-sighted allies on Capitol Hill the Obama administration acknowledged this week that it would not return from Copenhagen with any groundbreaking commitment to control green house gases. [...]
Hell Comes Home
November 19, 2009Published on Thursday, November 19, 2009 by CommonDreams.org Hell Comes Home by Robert C. Koehler There’s no armor, it turns out, for conscience. So our men and women are coming home from the killing fields wounded in their heads, used up, greeted only by the military’s own meat grinder of inadequate health care and intolerance [...]
Activists to Peg Climate Actions to Science
November 19, 2009Published on Thursday, November 19, 2009 by OneClimate.net Activists to Peg Climate Actions to Science by Adam Groves LONDON – In a week when world leaders concluded that it would be “unrealistic” to aim for a legally binding agreement at the upcoming UN Climate Conference, there are signs that activist groups are working to create [...]
