Month: April 2011

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Increasing demand for water continues to put a strain on available water sources, threatening the livelihood of millions of small-scale farmers who depend...

You can’t negotiate with a movement.  Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon, Martin King and the other Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) leaders knew that.  That’s one of the reasons they formed the MIA—to...

They might take a little getting used to, but I don’t see New Jersey’s utility-pole solar panels as eyesores. Like a massive Christo project but without the advance publicity, installations have been popping up...

Lawrence O’Donnell just moved to the front of the line of the next MsNBC cable news hosts who will be fired for being “too liberal” last night when he essentially accused NBC executives of enabling Donald...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernacke gave a press conference today. It was the first time a Federal Reserve chairman has even done a press conference. The cable news corporations covered it for 180 seconds even though they...