Synergic Earth Network

This article appeared in The Green Cross Optimist Magazine on 5/2/2005. Mary E. Clark When I was first contacted about this issue’s topic “Is Another World Possible?” it was suggested […]

Reposted from the author’s website. James Howard Kunstler Wherever the environmentally-informed gather these days (i.e., the clusterfuck-aware), a nervous impatience often mounts, and ends up expressing itself as an outcry […]

Reposted from The International News. Noam Chomsky The chaos that derives from the so-called international order can be painful if you are on the receiving end of the power that […]

Al Gore Not long before our nation launched the invasion of Iraq, our longest-serving Senator, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, stood on the Senate floor and said: “This chamber is, […]

Reposted from the San Francisco Chronicle. Mark Morford Go ahead, name your movement. Name something good and positive and pro-environment and eco-friendly that’s happening right now in the newly “greening” […]

The truth is especially hard to believe if it requires that we take action—if it requires that we change. If humanity is to have a future, we must take action—we […]

E. O. Wilson Except for giant meteorite strikes or other such catastrophes, Earth has never experienced anything like the contemporary human juggernaut. We are in a bottleneck of overpopulation and […]

Naomi Wolf Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. […]

George Monbiot It was first proposed, as far as I can discover, in 1842, by Alfred Tennyson. Since then the idea has broken the surface and sunk again at least […]

William Brandon Shanley A 2004 analysis of data by the US Census reports that 60 million Americans now live on less than $7 per day. That’s one in five in […]