Bill Moyers has some sharp comments for those who believe that the Free Market offers free, effortless and unrivaled wisdom: [W]hen you worship market forces as if they were the gods of Olympus, then the gods can do no wrong - until, of course, they prove to be human. Then…
Think globally, act locally. That's the message of this Common Dreams article, entitled "Energy-Addicted US Can Learn a Lot From Europe." And yes, we can really learn a lot about energy from Europeans. Someday soon, we're going to be having fantasies that we had their fleet of tiny cars, those…
Those who are truly interested in community-building (rather than striving to enhance their own status through resource-exhausting displays of material wealth) might want to take note of two ways city folks play in water. This idea occurred to me while walking through Tower Grove Park in St. Louis last week.…
Why, we all wonder, is America alone among the "First World Nations" to have such a high proportion of science-denying religionists, and even in high offices? According to Gregory Paul and Phil Zuckerman in Why the Gods Are Not Winning (that I found via this summary by Pharyngula) religiosity is…
Who is best prepared to deal with a severe economic depression? Based on the work of educator and author Ruby Payne, the best survivors in difficult economic times might be those who are in the lowest economic class, those in “generational poverty.” Payne has spent her career studying the mindsets…