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- Proof of Global Domination By a Few Corporations
Image: The network of global corporate control, Vitali, et. al.A Few Companies Have Power Over Most of the Real EconomyThe idea that the few dominate the many will not come as news to those gathered either to occupy wall street or to occupy everywhere. Bu...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Source: - added 3 months ago - China's Great Wall is Crumbling Due to Mining
The Great Wall of China. Photo: Matt Barber / Creative Commons.China's rapid push to develop the country's resources is now threatening its most iconic landmark. According to recent reports, both legal and illegal
Source: - added 3 months ago - A Legacy of Pollution at the Northport Power Station
Photo credit: Mona MiriThe Northport Power Station—a natural gas and oil electrical power station located on Long Island New York—has been a significant landmark on the New York landscape. It is the largest oil-fired power plant on the East Coast and the second most pollution generating plant.For decades since 1967, the Northport Power Station has been a source of local and general pol...
Source: - added 3 months ago - David Suzuki Visits Occupy Montréal: "We've Got To Take Back Our Democracy" (Video)
Screengrab from Why? Simply Because videoPrompted by my curiosity about global movement known as Occupy Wall Street, on Saturday I headed out to the Occupons Montréal / Occupy Montréal protests, which mirrored similar events springing up in Toronto, Vancouver, Berlin
Source: - added 3 months ago - 2012 is UN International Year of Cooperatives: Why Co-ops Could Be The Fastest-Growing Business Model (Video)
Screengrab viaUnited NationsEarlier this year, the United Nations declared that 2012 will be the International Year of Cooperatives. It's great timing, considering events such as Occupy Wall Street, which highlight the fact that our currently corrupted economic and political system simply doesn't work. Here's an interview with Charles Gould, Director-General of the
Source: - added 3 months ago - Protesters Occupy Berlin Until Evicted by Police (Photos and Video)
Image: Corner of a Life/CC BY 2.0As the Occupy Wall Street Protests spread around the globe, masses marched on the parliament in Berlin and the banks in Frankfurt, as well as in capitals across Europe. But at the end of the day in Berlin, police moved in. Their orders: no tent cities. Although mainstream media depicted the evacuations as peaceful, protesters used social media to sharephotos and vi...
Source: - added 3 months ago - The Occupy Everywhere Campaign Cannot Be Ignored
The whole thing started in July as a stunt by Vancouver culture jammers Adbusters, the people who invented Buy Nothing Day. " Once there, we shall incessantly repeat one simple demand in a plurality of voices..... we demand that Barack Obama ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington. It's time for DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY...
Source: - added 3 months ago - 2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Winners Announced
Image credit wikipediaThe Curry Stone Design Prize was created to champion designers as a force for social change. Founded by architect Clifford Curry and Archaeologist/acitivist Delight Stone, it " recognizes innovators who address critical issues involving clean air, food and water, shelter, health care, energy, education, social justice or peace. " This year's winners were announced this mornin...
Source: - added 4 months ago - Karner Blue Butterfly On Verge Of Extinction Promises Revenge
The Butterfly's POV in the Onion: If I Go Extinct I Swear I Will Take As Many Humans With Me As I Can.I think people always expected that when the time came for us to go extinct, we'd go down all quietlike--that just because we're small blue butterflies with a wingspan of an inch, we wouldn't put up a fight. Well, I can assure you that before my kind dies out there will be a reckoning. Blood will ...
Source: - added 4 months ago - Clever "Cut Here" Guerilla Graffiti Calls For Demolition Of Obsolete Dam
Photo: AnonymousIt's well-known that dams have a huge environmental impact: they are destructive, expensive, displace millions and threaten pristine wildlife habitats and populations worldwide. Not...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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