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By Katie Singer / 19 October 2022
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In the event that a developer wants to install a utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) facility near you, consider yourself blessed with opportunities. You can shake up your assumptions about “clean, green” energy. You can learn how to present the technology’s not-so-sunny sides so that neighbors and legislators who believe that solar PVs cannot possibly have problems…... Read more
By Don Fitz / 18 October 2022
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The suffering of US women under the iron heel of abortion is intensifying, especially for women of color. This makes it imperative to closely examine possible paths forward. As a teenager during the 1960s I witnessed two political paths that remain imprinted on my mind.
LBJ and 14 (b)
Even before classes began in 1963, I had organized the first high school Young Democrats chapter in Texas. By 1964 Houston Young Democrats were... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 08 October 2022
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According to the Marine Stewardship Council, depletion of fish stocks is the most urgent threat to the world’s oceans.
Ninety-three percent (93%) of the world’s major marine fish stocks are classified as fully exploited, overexploited, or significantly depleted. “Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing is a pervasive, far-reaching security threat.” (Source: Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing, United States... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 02 October 2022
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This article addresses the most current research on sea level rise, as well as adaptation measures being taken around the world. Of special interest, brilliant adaptation measures are taking place in the face of higher seas.
“Sea level has been fairly stable for 6,000 years, which is most of human civilization… but it’s risen eight (8) inches or twenty (20) centimeters in the last century, and the rate is tripling right... Read more
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By Julia Paley / 26 April 2023
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By Dr. Harlan Levine / 24 April 2023
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When America’s seniors enroll in Medicare, they enter the most medically vulnerable stretch of their lives. But as recently diagnosed cancer patients embark on this unwanted, unexpected care journey, what many seniors do not realize is that their Medicare Advantage (MA) plan can often put them at a disadvantage by restricting access to the care they... Read more
By Michael Fox / 23 April 2023
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These wind farms there have been largely constructed and run by foreign transnational corporations. Residents say that while on the surface these wind turbines are generating clean energy, the transnational wind companies have disrespected communal land rights, stiffed residents money owed for renting their land, and refused to benefit the local... Read more
By Gerald Sussman / 18 April 2023
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A more contemporary expression of fascist hatred was articulated by Ukraine’s notorious Azov Battalion founder, Andriy Biletsky, a member of the Ukrainian parliament from 2014 to 2019. Ukraine’s mission, he said in 2010, was to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [subhumans].” Today, through... Read more
By Dr Pedro Mzileni / 17 April 2023
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T he US is highly involved in the invasion of Ukraine together with NATO. Their occupation of the Russian territory, the Eastern Europe border and the rest of Global North is a continuation of decades and centuries of imperialism, settler colonialism and genocide in the region. .. The Pentagon leaks shows that the US is spying on everyone... Read more
By Vidyadhar Date / 15 April 2023
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The American obsession with a close-cut patch of green has its roots in 17th-century Europe. Castles in France and England at the time were guarded by men whose vision couldn’t be obstructed by wild shrubbery in case anybody decided to lay siege, so grazing animals were used to trim unruly vegetation. Since these castles belonged to the wealthiest... Read more
By Amy McEuen / 15 April 2023
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In a climate crisis, city ordinances should encourage us to promote biodiversity in our yards, rather than criminalizing it. Lawns are the largest cultivated crop in America, taking up an estimated 2% of land, over 40 million acres. Mowing and leaf blowing increase greenhouse gas emissions, over 70 million pounds of fertilizers contribute to... Read more