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Worldchanging | Evaluation + Tools + Best Practices: Green Water and Sustainable
Worldchanging guest writers David Zaks and Chad Monfreda are graduate research assistants at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment at UW-Madison where they work on understanding ...
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Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? - Slashdot
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "John Sutter writes at CNN that as Swiss citizens vote on November 24 to consider capping executive pay at 12 times what the lowest-paid worker at a company makes in a ...
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How NASA might build its very first warp drive
A few months ago, physicist Harold White stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster-than-light warp drive. His ...
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Distributed economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The relations in DE are much more complex than those in a centralised economy. This feature makes the whole economy more stable - leaf nodes no longer rely on just one central node. It also ...
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The Pope Just Published One Of The Most Powerful Critiques Of Modern Capitalism
Pope Francis is out with the first big, written text of his papacy. The full text can be found here (via Izabella Kaminska). The section of the text that's getting the most attention is his powerful
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Warren v. District of Columbia
This article Please add a needs attention from an expert on the subject. reason or a talk parameter to this template to explain the issue with the article. Consider associating this request with a ...
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Are We Raising a Generation of Helpless Kids?
When a college freshman received a C- on her first test, she literally had a meltdown in class. Sobbing, she texted her mother who called back, demanding to talk to the professor immediately (he, of
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What?!? Private prisons suing states for millions if they don't stay full
Low crime rates bad for business for white-owned private prisons; they demand states keep them full The prison-industrial complex is so out of control that private prisons have the sheer audacity to
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Venezuela's unpopular leader sends in the army - to lower prices
"Chavez had charisma, which Maduro doesn't. I think he's a genuine goof and a flake who's trying to imitate Chavez if he can." Susan Purcell director of the Center for Hemispheric Policy at the ...
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Rep. Alan Grayson stymied in attempt to hold NSA hearing
WASHINGTON - Since July, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson has been trying to do something that should come easily to a federal lawmaker: hold a congressional hearing. But the months-long effort has repeatedly
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It's not the morphine, it's the size of the cage: Rat Park experiment upturns
We all learned this in DARE class. About the rats in a cage who can self-administer morphine who get addicted to the stuff, and then just hit that lever until they die. A seemingly keystone argument
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Charity is not a substitute for justice
On November 15, thousands of people in San Francisco worked together to make an ailing child's wish come true. Miles Scott, a five-year-old boy recovering from leukaemia, dreamed of becoming ...
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WTO salvages historic $1 trillion trade deal
The World Trade Organization has formally approved a historic package of agreements after over a decade of negotiations. Trade talks among 159 world economies came to an end after Cuba dropped its ...
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Police In Thailand Lay Down Vests and Barricades In Solidarity With Protestors
In a stunning turn of events today in Thailand, riot police yielded to the peaceful protesters they were ordered to harass and block. They police removed barricades and their helmets as a sign of s...
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Ryan Lizza: Why Won't Obama Rein in the N.S.A.?
Instead of shutting down or scaling back the N.S.A.'s programs, Obama has worked to bring them into narrow compliance with rules that often contradict the views he expressed when he was a senator ...
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Daily Kos: Snowden Strikes Again - another breaking story
according to The Switch blog at The Washington Post , in a story just emailed as breaking news, NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking . The story is co-authored by Barton ...
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12 Year Old Girl Tells The SHEEPLE the Truth about ROTHSCHILD CORRUPT BANKERS
12 Year Old Girl Tells The SHEEPLE the Truth about ROTHSCHILD CORRUPT BANKERS and ECONOMY When Ron Paul stands up in front of a crowd and explains the fictional-reserve banking system's unreality ...
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The Economics of Sustainability - A Comparison of Economic Models
Our current economic paradigm is one in which the continuous acquisition of monetary wealth and material resources is both demanded and valued. In many of the wealthier nations economic growth has com
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Daily Kos: 25 Images of Markets "Regulating Themselves"
When economists talk about how a market "regulates itself," what they mean is that markets reach an equilibrium between supply and demand. This says nothing about whether or not this equilibrium ...
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Make room for ride-sharing [Editorial]
The proposal to classify Uber as a common carrier - as ordered yesterday by the state's chief public utility law judge but potentially up for consideration by the Maryland Public Service Commission
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UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet
A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today. As the global population surges towards a ...
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Fracking Across the United States | Earthjustice
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The Robots Have Won: Panera Replaces Cashiers with Kiosks
This isn't the first time kiosks were used in place of real people. Airlines have been doing it for years, and now Panera has joined the club! The soup and sandwich giant will be cutting down the n...
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A Key Reason Why U.S. Politicians Don't Understand Science
In 1995, Congressional Republicans shut down the Office of Technology Assessment. For 23 years, this agency had published reports that provided legislators with nonpartisan analyses of science and ...
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Glenn Greenwald: how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers
The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas - even though the US government has warned against using Chinese technology for the same reasons, says Glenn ...