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Dreaming the Future Can Create the Future

Kenny Ausubel | Posted 11.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Tom Linzey, Bioneers, Renewable Energy, Globalization, Clean Energy, Ecoliteracy, Collapse, Energy Policy, Indigenous People, Ecuador, Ecology, Climate Change, David Orr, Environment, James Hansen, Green-Collar Jobs, Globalocal, Global Warming, Google, Biomimicry, Green News
Kenny Ausubel

We stand at the threshold of a singular opportunity in the human experiment: To re-imagine how to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations.

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McCain: Frank and Dodd "Willing Co-Conspirators" In Banking Crisis

Politico | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Wall Street, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Collapse, Economy, Financial Crisis, Politics News

John McCain and his Republican allies have elevated an unlikely pair of political villains to deflect blame for the slumping economy. During a town ...

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I Just Took $5 Billion Off $700 Billion (Cost to Taxpayers: Zero)

Dave Hollander | Posted 09.26.2008 | Business

Read More: $700 Billion Bailout, Government Bailout, Collapse, Bailout, Wall Street, Taxpayer Bailout, Lehman Brothers, Economy, Business News
Dave Hollander

The government says they want to help? Okay, let's really put the I.R.S. to work. The President should direct that agency, right now, to identify all those who profited from the root cause.

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The Invisible Hand is Dead. Long Live (Smart) Regulation.

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Economics, Economy, Self-Interest, Invisible Hand, Regulation, Rational Choice Theory, Collapse, Politics News
David Sloan Wilson

I hope that our economy recovers, but the time has come to declare its guiding metaphor dead. This is the metaphor of the invisible hand, which makes...

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Door Number 1 or Door Number 2?

Matthew Stein | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil Prices, Sustainability, Future, Business, Ecology, Collapse, Climate Change, Green News
Matthew Stein

In the 1800's, millions of people decided that slavery was an evil whose time had passed, and they put Lincoln in power to end it. If we proactively manage the transition away from fossil fuels, they will meet the same end.

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How Did Things Get so Bad So Quickly? (Sustainability Primer Part 1)

Matthew Stein | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Population, Ecology, Overpopulation, Environment, Sustainability, Ecosystems, Collapse, Lester Brown, Green News
Matthew Stein

"The bottom line is that the world is in what ecologists call an "overshoot-and-collapse" mode. Demand has exceeded the sustainable yield of natural s...

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