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My Road Trip With a Solar Rock Star Or Notes on the Enthusiasm Gap by Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben, creator of 350.org and author of the indispensable book, Eaarth Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, takes a road trip from Unity College in Maine, to the White House, carrying one of the original solar panels, in perfect working order, placed on the White House roof thirty [...]
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Put your hoes down; Bay Area farm celebrates harvest and community
On Saturday, October 3, 2010, I attended Full Belly Farm's annual Hoes Down festival at their beautiful farm in Capay Valley, CA. What a magical day. The sun was shining all over the polyculture farm, the pigs were eating muck, and delicious, responsibly-raised hamburgers were grilling. Children [...]
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The Road to Tipping Point – Part 1
What is Emerging Now This thing he speaks of is like a memory, a remembrance of something we’ve always known. Bill Twist, president and co-founder of The Pachamama Alliance, is speaking about what we are capable of doing together as humans, how we are supposed to be living. It’s our umbilical [...]
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Millenium Development Goals (MDG’s) For Beginners–and Finishers
From The New York Times Op-Ed Guest Columnist M.D.G.’s for Beginners ... and Finishers By BONO Published September 18, 2010 The M.D.G.’s are possibly the most visionary deal that most people have never heard of. In the run-up to the 21st century, a grand global bargain was negotiated at [...]
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Germany’s Green Energy Plan: “Laboratory of ‘Green Growth’”
In an article published on May 9th, Christian Schwägerl brings attention to the new Energy Plan being put forward by Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Merkel said the Fukushima disaster “has forever changed the way we define risk in Germany” and has now committed that country to a [...]
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