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• The 4th Largest Economy In The World Just Generated 90 Percent Of The Power It Needs From Renewables

  By genvana on May 12, 2016 • ( 9 )

  

  By Jeremy Deaton On Sunday, for a brief, shining moment, renewable power output in Germany reached 90 percent of the country’s total electricity demand. That’s a big deal. On May 8th, at 11 a.m. local time, the total output of… Read More ›

• In Aleppo, We Are Running Out of Coffins

  By konigludwig on May 5, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  By Osama Abou el Ezz May ALEPPO, Syria — LAST week, Syrian or Russian jets bombed Al Quds hospital, in the eastern part of the divided city of Aleppo. At least 50 people lost their lives, and some 80 more… Read More ›

• A Mine vs. a Million Monarchs

  By konigludwig on May 1, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  By Dan Fagin THE national tourism agency calls the Mexican mountain town of Angangueo a “Pueblo Mágico.” If so, it is a dark magic. In recent years, Angangueo’s 5,000 inhabitants have been cursed by calamities natural and manufactured. Snowstorms, mudslides… Read More ›

• News contrast of the week: Robert Bentley & Elliot Williams

  By Sara on April 26, 2016 • ( 13 )

  

• Should our economies take the road less travelled?

  By konigludwig on April 18, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

• Palestine: Israeli Police Abusing Detained Children

  By konigludwig on April 15, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  (Jerusalem) – Israeli security forces are abusing Palestinian children detained in the West Bank. The number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces has more than doubled since October 2015. Interviews with children who have been detained, video footage, and… Read More ›

• Does Hillary represent the moral high ground?

  By Sara on March 24, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

• My Updates and Thoughts for the Day

  By Ecantados on March 19, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  First, thing this morning I had to call Triple AAA, one of my BFF’s, to get a jump. Turned out I had a dead cell in my battery..of course that’s a downer right off the bat, but get this, it… Read More ›

• Temperance in the face of ignorance

  By Sara on March 17, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  I was surfing Google+ the other day and came across a meme similar to the following: Now memes like this piss me off, as does the implication that low wage workers deserve to be where they are–i.e. in poverty–because of some… Read More ›

• Put your money where your morals are

  By Sara on March 14, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

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