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by Skip Wenz
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09 August 2009 |
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When what's now called the "Brooks Brother's Brigade" disrupted the Florida presidential vote count in 2000, I realized that I'd read about similar incidents — both in Nazi Germany and in Fascist Italy. Hitler and Mussolini used organized mobs to disrupt democratic processes as they rose to power. |
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by William R. Catton, Jr.
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06 August 2009 |
 The author wrote the seminal work Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change in 1980. The following ass-kicking paper was written in October 1995 as an inquiry into public denial of ecological overshoot. It could have been written today, an unsettling fact that adds to the paper's importance. Of great value is Catton's demolition of cornucopianism. - JL, ed.
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by Drive 55 Leaders
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20 July 2009 |
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A unique, authoritative national study has quantified the huge extra
number of highway crash deaths since the national speed limit of 55
miles per hour was trashed. The lead author gutsily compares this to
the fraction of people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. First, a
short pertinent story by Jan Lundberg:
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by Greg Ramsey
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18 June 2009 |
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It will take a long time for the US to embrace pedestrians, bicycling, and electric carts as substitutes for cars in our communities. And yet an inevitable change is coming that will significantly increase environmental quality, and restore real community and economic viability. Changing legislation, master planning, and the development of car-reduced and car-free communities will move us forward.
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by Culture Change
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16 June 2009 |
Back from the heaven of the future, big rewards are coming for innovative redesigns connecting the essentials of food and shelter. Ideas and implementations include physical and architectural designs, but culture change can operate more effectively, faster and less of a cost.
One big reward is directly to the people: Less commuting for essential activities. As shelter and food are brought closer together, from both directions, transportation will cease to be a disproportionately high cost. |
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by Culture Change
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02 June 2009 |
 The human cost of oil addiction becomes ever more heinous as stories of massacres, beatings, tortures, shootings, killings, toxic pollution, destruction of habitats and livelihoods come in from around the globe. The pathology of corporate activities continues to be ruinously exploitative of people and the environment: ChevWrong, reported by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Gwich'in Steering Committee from Canada to Alaska, and the Shell Guilty Campaign from Friends of the Earth, Oil Change International and Remember Saro-Wiwa. Isn't it time we ended oil addiction that leads to such crimes?
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