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Drinking at the public fountain
The new corporate threat to our water supplies |
Guest author |
25 Sep 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This is a guest essay by authors and filmmakers Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman. Their book Thirst exposed how the corporate drive to control water has become a catalyst for community resistance to globalization. This essay was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission. ----- In the last few years, the world's largest financial institutions and pension funds, from Goldman Sachs to Australia's Macquarie Bank, have figure ... |
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| Topics: books, business, environmental justice, food, politics, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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Upgrading capitalism's operating system
A review of Peter Barnes' Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons |
Gar Lipow |
05 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Peter Barnes' Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (also available as a free PDF at Barnes' site) suggests that flaws in capitalism lie at the root of the environmental and social problems we face today; his solution, as a retired corporate CEO, is not to discard capitalism, but fix those flaws. As he puts it: Eventually, after retiring from Working Assets in 1995, I began reflecting on the profit-making world I'd emerged from. I'd tested the system fo ... |
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| Topics: books, business, politics (all these topics) |
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Terry Tamminen: Nuclear energy and China's development
China got troubles |
David Roberts |
14 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
| DR: Bush's token response to global warming is to argue for clean coal and nuclear power. To the extent he's involved in any international discussion, it's the Pacific pact, a trade deal with these emerging markets for old coal and nuclear technology. TT: Bush jumps in a long list of presidents of both parties who have not been able to deal with the [nuclear] waste issue in any meaningful fashion. And talk about a subsidized industry! Once upon a time we t ... |
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| Topics: books, business, interview, nuclear power, oil, politics, Terry Tamminen, United States (all these topics) |
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Balancing the Book
A look back at Al Gore's 1992 opus on the environment |
Chip Giller |
25 Oct 2000 |
Arts and Minds |
| Earth in the Balance By Al Gore Houghton Mifflin, 416 pages, 2000 How many environmentalists have actually read Earth in the Balance? Very few, I'm willing to wager. The truth is that until recently, I myself felt qualified to pontificate on Al Gore's environmental beliefs and, yes, occasionally question whether he'd lived up to them, even though I hadn't read more than a few excerpts from th ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, books, business, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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