Monthly Archives: December 2012 »
Beyond Green Dogma: Environmentalists Need to Take Nuclear Power Seriously
Back in 2007, I was, like all self-identified, self-respecting greens, anti-nuclear. And I was pretty sure that, based on my reading of ecosocialists like Bellamy Foster and Magdoff (more on them below) as well
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Natural Gas Projects Prove “Frack-tious”
Residents in Pennsylvania, and its adjacent states, find themselves at odds with their next-door neighbors. The controversy? What to do about localized natural gas deposits. Proponents of Marcellus Shale drilling cite it as a
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Stephanie McMillan: Nonbinding Nonspecifics
Image and text by Stephanie McMillan. To see more of Stephanie’s work, visit her website.
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A Life or Death Choice is Upon Us
Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt established the War Production Board to meet the needs of retooling the USA for the looming war effort. His demands were
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Egypt’s Revolution Stumbles
The call for a new constitution was a key political demand of the Egyptian people when they overthrew the thirty-year dictatorship of Mubarak. Motivating this was the desire to begin dismantling the repressive bureaucratic
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Oil Slicks and Sleazy Dealings: The BP Settlement
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was the single worst man-made ecological disaster at sea. Due to the epic scope of the accident, one would believe it would have a lasting impact on
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Rising Profits, Sinking Planet: Socialist Solutions to the Climate Crisis
On Saturday, December 15th, author Chris Williams spoke on the roots of the climate crisis, the solutions needed to overcome it. Chris Williams is a long-time environmental activist and the author of Ecology and
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Students Demand Fossil Fuel Divestment
During the past semester, students at over 150 university campuses across the United States demanded that their universities divest their endowments from the fossil fuel industry. The campaign is being spearheaded by climate change
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