Posted on July 6, 2009 by zoeweil
In an interview in this month’s issue of Ode Magazine, Lester Brown, founder of the WorldWatch Institute refers to Oystein Dahle, a former vice-president of Exxon in Norway, to whom he attributes this quote:
“Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth and capitalism may collapse because it does not [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2009 by zoeweil
The New York Times recently had an article about the growing use of the video The Story of Stuff in schools, and the controversy that sometimes surrounds it. The short, animated film provides an introduction to the impact of our stuff on the environment, and it’s a great way to introduce the effects of consumer [...]
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Posted on May 25, 2009 by zoeweil
I’ve been encountering a number of people who are ambivalent about this recession we’re in. On the one hand, they’re struggling personally because of economic hardship, but on the other hand they recognize that consumption needs to decline for the sake of biodiversity, climate stabilization, and restored ecosystems. I was listening to an economic historian [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2009 by zoeweil
Nicholas Kristof had an opinion piece in The New York Times yesterday that will likely make educators breathe a sigh of relief. When a columnist recognizes that education is the most important step in rebuilding our economy and creating a better future, we know that things are shifting. Education has always been too low on [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2008 by zoeweil
This year’s Nobel laureate in economics, Paul Krugman, wrote an opinion piece called “When Consumers Capitulate” in the New York Times last week. In it, Krugman bemoans consumers tightening their belts and buying less. He points out that rarely do Americans reduce their shopping, even in hard times. Now, however, we are, and the confluence [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2008 by zoeweil
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, authors of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (required reading in our Master of Education program at the Institute for Humane Education) have an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times today, which argues that, instead of focusing on making dirty energy more expensive [...]
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Posted on September 24, 2008 by zoeweil
I’m not an economist, but I, like many Americans, have been trying to understand and develop a cogent opinion about the economic crisis we are facing. A $700 billion dollar taxpayer bailout of Wall Street investment firms doesn’t sit well, although I’m convinced that speedy action is necessary to avert economic collapse. During the great [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2008 by zoeweil
The anti-immigration sentiment that’s growing in the U.S. is fomenting not only inhumane actions but also a shameful waste of taxpayer dollars. In an opinion piece in the Miami Herald, author Mary Sanchez describes a government raid on an Iowa meatpacking plant in which almost 400 Mayan Guatemalans “were scooped up and shuffled in shackles [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2008 by zoeweil
In the August 4 Ethics Newsline , you’ll find the results of a research report that asked the question: Which is more important: Economic Growth or the Environment? The answer to this question, from a Harris poll, is:
“As economic conditions worsen, people who are asked to make a decision between protecting the environment or economic [...]
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