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In 2006, in anticipation of my retirement from academia, we bought 160 acres of beautiful land in the central highlands of New Mexico. There we were going to live out our cowboy fantasy by raising horses and riding them on my rancher friend’s cattle roundups. The high desert land was covered with grass, juniper, and some Pinyon pine trees, and offered a spectacular view of the Manzano Mountains. The land sat atop the Chupadera Mesa about 13 miles outside of Mountainair and six miles off the main road. Santa Fe was only an hour and a half to the North.
One beautiful March day, my rancher friend, and real deal ex-bull...
Photo by Dylan Kelley
In a crowded hall of the Rutland Free Library, a mass of people are huddled together. They are speaking excitedly and directly on this cold Tuesday night in December. This is the health care Listening Session put on by the State...
On November 28, the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) opened its 16th session in The Hague, Netherlands. Information on it can be found on the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) web site. OPCW is mandated to implement the elimination of chemical weapons, and "to provide a forum for consultation and cooperation among States Parties." Its work includes:
(1) Demilitarization: destruction of all chemical weapons and precursors.
(2) Non-Proliferation: ensuring against proliferation of toxic chemicals and their precursors.
(3) Assistance and Protection: Member States able to protect their populations pledge to help others that can't.
(4) International...
The “Food Landscape” of the Social, Political and Economic World is changing fast. Trying to keep up on all that is happening is a challenge.
Introducing my new e-News Paper The Food Watch Daily. It is an automatically generated news paper from selected RSS feeds and Twitter accounts covering food; issues, regulation, legislation and solutions.
The paper is released every day at 10 am Eastern Standard time. After it is released I will be hand selecting articles and videos to publish as well as edit the overall content, when my time allows...
Fukushima and Its Impact Upon the Westinghouse-Toshiba Designed AP1000 Atomic Power Plant from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Fairewinds was retained by the AP1000 Oversight Group to evaluate the AP1000 design for flaws that are now evident as a result of the nuclear accidents at Fukushima. The NRC’s refusal to thoroughly examine these flaws is reminiscent of the Atomic Energy...
The System of Debt is the System of Death:
Examining the intertwined root causes of the crises we face
A workshop and dialogue hosted by Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle of the Hinesburg-based Global Justice Ecology Project
Saturday, Nov. 12th
11am City Hall Park
“We live in a toxic crisis-ridden world because choices are driven, not by ethics or morals, not by justice vs. injustice, not even by objective science. Choices are driven by the bottom line. The 1% who run corporations make their decisions based on profits--on advancing their own self-interests to the detriment of all other life on Earth.”
The...
As of October 31, 2011, the demographers at United Nations recently proclaimed, the population of the Earth reached 7 billion. Just a dozen years ago, it passed 6 billion. As disturbing as this event was, it was not nearly as upsetting as the UN’s projection that the Earth’s population will be an estimated 9.3 billion by 2050. In effect, by mid-century, the Earth, already overburdened with one India, will be asked to bear the burden of two more.
I am a trained social-scientist...
On Oct 29th, the 2011 Conference on Environmental Action was held at the VT Technical College in Randolph. In the following Video a “some-what complicated” question was asked to Gina McCarthy, who is the Assistant Administrator for the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. Here is the question rephrased – It has been 32 years since the EPA did an assessment of the ambient radio frequency radiation, what kind of pressure should we put on the EPA to update their data?
Gina McCarthy doesn’t know the answer to the question, but says “If you think its an issue, and we haven’t looked at it,...
I just posted the article below in our MBA program's blog. I personally believe that implementing Hsiao's version of single-payer health care, closing Vermont Yankee, and phasing out oil for heating and most transportation are three absolutely necessary steps for Vermont in our quest to create long-term, sustainable prosperity, and preserve our dignity and independence. They all require tackling and overcoming dominant American economic interests. Vermont must do all three, fast. This article focuses on certain aspects of the first one.
Thoughts from Off Main Street
Ralph Meima, Marlboro MBA Program Director
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