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Memo to #OccupyWallStreet: It's Not Just Neoliberalism That's Destroyed the Environment
When it comes to protecting the environment, it is true that the current neoliberal globalized economy hasn't done a very good job at protecting nature, at all. But historically speaking, neither has any other economic system.
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New Carbon Tax Means 1 Million Australians Won't Have to Pay Income Taxes
You might have already heard that after a long and arduous political battle, Australia is on track to institute a fairly potent carbon tax. After the measure passes the upper house (where the
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Quote of the Day: David Suzuki on the Occupy Wall Street Movement
The Occupy Wall Street protests are poised to spread worldwide during its fourth week. Many observers are making the links between financial malfeasance, government corruption, social injustice and
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Occupy Wall Street Plans Mass Close-Out of Chase Bank Accounts
This Saturday the Occupy Wall Street movement will engage in a day of action. A number of events are planned, but the highlight appears to be the Move Your Money action. The event will lead occupants,
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Here's Why Coal's True Cost Is Much Higher Than We Pay
photo: Jim Brickett/CC BY ND Skeptical Science previous examined the fact that the market price of coal power is artificially low because we do not directly pay for all of its impacts, particularly on air quality and climate change. People who feel
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World's First Local e-Currency Launches in Brixton, London
The London neighborhood of Brixton has had its own local currency for some time, the Brixton Pound (B£). Now Brixton has the distinction of launching the world's first local e-currency (B£e).The Brixton Pound website explains how it works (as the video
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Hurricane Irene: A Great Example of Why GDP Fails as a Measurement of Wellbeing
If you need a great example of how GDP isn't really a great way of measuring the actual state of an economy, in its ability to actually meet the needs of people, then a new piece from Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy does a great
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Good May Be Practical But Is It Good Enough? James Hansen Pitches Fee-and-Dividend Carbon Pricing
With Climate Week NYC drawing to a close (there's still the global Moving Planet action, organized by 350.org, on Saturday though...) I headed over to the New School to hear Dr James Hansen from NASA's Goddard Institute
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Why Environmentalists Should Care About the Occupy Wall Street Protest
Perhaps many TreeHugger readers don't need to be convinced that the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest in lower Manhattan is a green event, but it is. Even if ostensibly about economic issues more broadly construed, many of
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World Bank Urges Scrapping Fossil Fuel Subsidies To Help Poor Nations Adapt To Climate Change
Echoing what countless NGOs, economists and the UN have said previously, the World Bank apparently will be weighing in on fossil fuel subsidies. According to draft documents leaked to The Guardian, the World Bank will tell G20
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Extreme Weather Has Already Cost $35 Billion This Year in US
How much damage has this year's extreme weather--record snowfall in many places this winter, flooding, heat waves, tornadoes, drought in Texas with no end in sight--cost the United States? The National Climatic Data Center has a
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7 High-Tech Online Gardening Tools to Plan the Perfect Garden
Is your dream a Tomato Sauce Garden...or the White House Garden? Or are you still embarrassed about last year's patch -- the one where the lettuce crowded the carrots, the green beans spilled over into the cucumbers,
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Debt Crisis Solution Is Radically Rethinking Our Economy's Goal: Richard Heinberg
If all the headbutting over the debt crisis has your head aching as much as mine is, Richard Heinberg from the Post Carbon Institute has some words of sanity that are worth checking out. Heinberg posits that both the Democrats and Republicans are
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Voluntary Carbon Market Grew To Record High Volume in 2010
While the green community's view of carbon offsets, either personal or corporate,
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What Should We Tax? Herman Daly Says Resources Not Value Added Nor Income
A variation on a theme we've covered before but against all logic hasn't made much headway (a combination of the public generally going deaf to any mention of taxes unless it's first prefaced with the word 'lowering' and opposition from extractive
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Carbon Credits For Killing Camels? Really?
I know feral camels in Australia are a big problem and all but someone this one seems a bridge too far. The Independent reports that the Australian government is considering a carbon credits scheme to award the
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America Needs to Move To Post-Economic Growth Society, Prioritize Community: Gus Speth
Apropos of the need to stop talking about economic growth as unconditional good, disregarding ecological limits, Yale e360 recently ran a good piece by Gus Speth that's worth reading in full. Though he doesn't use the term explicitly he calls for
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Whither Ecological Limits? Jairam Ramesh, Economic Growth & Energy Expansion
India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh (above, talking with students at one of the opening events of World Environment Day 2011) has a lot to be praised for. So much so that we awarded him a Best of Green award last year,
