Visions

A Zero-Waste Olympics? Nice Try, But No Gold Medal

By Jim Motavalli / Txchnologist

A new WWF report says the London games aren't even close to meeting their own sustainability goals

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What Some of the Greatest Science Fiction Writers Thought 2012 Would Be Like

By Sara Robinson / AlterNet

Timothy Noah: Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Middle Class Is Disappearing

By Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Western North America Faces 21st Century 'Mega-drought'

Environment News Service

Why People Cave in to Extremist Ideas That Were Once Unthinkable

By Glenn Greenwald / Salon

Why We Need More People Like Jennifer Livingston to Tell the World There Is More to Life Than Our Weight

Howard Zinn Turns 90: The Great Legacy of the People's Historian

Obama v. Romney: Two Radically Different Visions Of America's Future

Visions

How Smaller Cities are Taking the Lead in Sustainability Innovation

Sven Eberlein / AlterNet

How Job Insecurity Is Messing Up Your Love Life

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

The Top 5 Most Hypocritical Corporate Sponsors

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Chomsky: The Most Powerful Country in History Is Destroying the Earth and Human Rights as We Know Them

Noam Chomsky / Tom Dispatch

The Sky Is Now Legally Protected, Thanks to a Texas Judge

David Morris / On the Commons

Drought, Blistering Temperatures and Raging Fires: Are We Screwed? 5 Facts You Should Know

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

The Future of Masculinity: Do We Need Real Men - Or Real Human Beings?

Abigail Collazo / Role Reboot

10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

The World Needs More Geek Girls -- And Here's Where They're Coming From Now

Ysabel Yates / Txchnologist

Beyond Throwaway Cities: How To Build An Export-Proof Local Economy

Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb, Thad Williamson / Solutions Journal

How Will the 99% Deal with the Psychopaths in the 1%?

Joe Brewer / Cognitive Policy Works

Why Our Phones and Internet Are Being Threatened by a Big Telecom Privatization Scheme

David Rosen, Bruce Kushnick / AlteNet

A Piece of American History That the Corporate Capitalists Want Us to Forget: Battle of Blair Mountain

Chris Hedges / Truthdig

“Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math” — Bill McKibben’s Call to Action on Carbon Emissions Makes Waves

Tom Athanasiou / Eco Equity

How Can the Labor Movement Move Beyond the Democratic Party?

Mike Parker / Labor Notes

5 Reasons the Super-Rich Need Government More Than the Rest of Us

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

We Can't End AIDS Until We End the Drug War

Ethan Nadelmann, Mathilde Krim / Huffington Post

Get Used to the American West in Flames: What Living With the 'New Normal' Will Mean

William deBuys / TomDispatch.com

Black Americans Have Suffered an Historic Wipeout of Their Wealth, With Few Signs It's Coming Back

Jamelle Bouie / The Nation

Once America’s Leading Hate Group, the Neo-Nazi National Alliance Now Considered 'a Joke'

Mark Potok / Southern Poverty Law Center

The Story of Change

Annie Leonard / The Story of Stuff

Why Only A Constitution Amendment Can Rescue American Democracy

Jamin Raskin / People For the American Way Foundation

The New Misogyny: What It Means for Teachers and Classrooms

The Editors of Rethinking Schools / Rethinking Schools

It's Scary -- Ayn Rand's Nutty Ideas Are Being Taken Seriously, Even in Canada

Crawford Kilian / The Tyee

Are Progressives Harming the Cause by Attacking Organized Religion and People of Faith?

James Rohrer / AlterNet

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