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Hope For Imagining a World Beyond Corporate Control

The commons is not just a battlefield between corporate predators and those who resist them – it is also a source of hope for those willing to imagine a world beyond capitalism.

Resilience Roundup - Dec 5

A roundup of the news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the …

The Role of Cities in Moving Toward a Sustainable Economy

The story of a hippy flower-child who leveraged big economic decisions that …

Hard Times in a Boom Town: Pennsylvanians Describe Costs of Fracking

If you're looking for the shale gas boom, northeastern …

Oil and the Global Slowdown

The world economy is slowing down and the authorities are fretting.

What Makes a Market?

The Netherlands is not known for its food culture but it’s now keen to play catch up with its European counterparts.
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Anywhere But Here: Casino Capitalism in Las Vegas

After the crash in 2008, southern Nevada became the foreclosure and unemployment capital of the nation.

A Decade After Asian Tsunami, New Forests Protect the Coast

The tsunami that struck Indonesia in 2004 obliterated vast areas of Aceh …

Back to the Future for Economic Inequality

Apart from global warming, it is arguably the rise in economic inequality …

Kinder Morgan Leaves Burnaby Mountain in Win for Pipeline Protesters

On the morning of November 28, after weeks of sustained protest, energy …

Peak Oil Notes - Dec 4

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Saudis will not entertain …

Food Safety Modernization Act – An Assault on Sustainable Agriculture?

We are not ready to be again a nation of farmers, each growing our own, but we are potentially on the edge of a major shift in public …

Democratic energy beyond neoliberalism

Our relationship to energy needs to change.

Founding Father of Fracking Boom Is Crying the Blues

The price of a barrel of oil has been dropping steadily due to decreasing …

The End of Global Development as we Know it

Development professionals do their work under the assumption that the …

Co-ops Get a Boost in Seattle

Seattle, the largest city in the Pacific Northwest with a population of over …

Dark Age America: The Fragmentation of Technology

It was probably inevitable that last week’s discussion of the way that …

One Minute Review: Incredible! by Pam Warhurst & Joanna Dobson

Incredible!: Plant Veg, Grow a Revolution is the story of Incredible Edible …

Can a Complementary Currency Help End Poverty?

A Q&A with John Boik founder of the Principled Societies Project …

A View from Terra Madre 2014: Slow Food's Bi-annual Conference

At Terra Madre, the Slow Food movements bi-annual meeting of world food …

Letter from a Petro-State

Given the fact that Keystone has recently just failed, again, to pass the …

US crude imports from Non-OPEC countries peaked 10 years before tight oil boom

In this post on the impact of US tight oil, we look at US crude oil imports …
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