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How to live on earth
Updated on 2008-07-31
Created on 2007-10-11
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The Earth Belongs to Everyone, by Alanna Hartzok | The Institute for Economic Democracy
In The Earth Belongs to Everyone you will learn how the earth rights ethic can be realized through fundamental yet practical reforms in public finance policy based on integrating two primary trains of thought: the policy of “land rent for the people” as advocated by Thomas Paine, Henry George and other classical and current economic thinkers, and recent movements for “green” polluter-pay type taxes. Successful working examples of the earth rights approach to public finance are found throughout the book.
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Local Currencies: Catalysts for Sustainable Regional Economies
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The banking system is one of the most centralized institutions
of our economy and one of the major obstacles to strengthening
regional economies and the communities within them. Yet centralized
banking is only a recent development in the United States. The
customs of borrowing and lending and money-printing grew up over
generations in towns and rural communities to form what we now
call our banking systems. These systems were small-scale, regional,
and decentralized.
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The Education of E.F. Schumacher by Joseph Pearce
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to organise work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.
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From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a 'disutility'; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.
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Millions of Americans in Economic Battle to Make Ends Meet
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One in five don't earn enough to make ends meet and six years of Bushenomics has inflicted new hardships
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Just Say No To Digital TV
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DO NOT PURCHASE NEW EQUIPMENT! Let your television signal
die and explore the world around you -
the cost to
the environment as thousands of perfectly useable televisions are rendered useless
and placed in trash heaps.
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Have You Fallen for these 7 Negative Attitudes Pushed by the Media
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Listen, I’m not trying to say all media is bad; it’s not. Movies in
particular can be wonderful works of art or much-needed distractions,
and there’s nothing inherently evil about television, radio, print,
or the internet; quite the contrary, all forms of media provide wonderful
channels of communication.
I’m simply saying that the media’s darker side is bound to seep into
our collective conscience; it surrounds us. And we’re receptive
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7. Danger Fixation:
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Television's Hidden Agenda?
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You don't get rewarded in commercial broadcasting
for trying to tell the truth about the institutions of power in this country,"
said veteran TV journalist Bill Moyers in December 2004. "I think my peers
in commercial television are talented and devoted journalists, but they've chosen
to work in a corporate mainstream that trims their talent to fit the corporate
nature of American life. And you do not get rewarded for telling the hard truths
about America in a profit-seeking environment
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Kill Your Television--The Beautiful People Syndrome
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In the age of television, image becomes more
important than substance.
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Demonising druggies wins votes. That's all that counts
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Our drugs policy is clearly disastrous. Over the past 30 years, it has resulted in a thousandfold increase in heroin addicts, many ill and destitute. But, concludes Nick Davies, politicians are too scared - or too stupid - to admit it
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A failed war
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New York state, blacks make up about 16% of the population, but well over half of all prisoners.
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the age-old overlap between poverty and race plays itself out in a peculiarly cruel way as regards drug prisoners: African Americans are estimated to make up 14% of the country's drug users, yet over half of those sentenced to prison on drug charges. In part that might be attributable to deliberate racism.
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Environment: Rural Communities Exploited by Nestlé for Your Bottled Water
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Bottled water costs way more than the few bucks you pay at the store. Across the U.S., rural communities are footing the bill for the booming bottled water industry. Nestlé's advance on a small town in California is the latest example.
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Environment: Our Drinkable Water Supply Is Vanishing
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Expensive marketing campaigns convince people that their tap water is unsafe to drink. Then, companies like Coke and Pepsi bottle municipal tap water and others like Nestle pilfer spring water from rural communities and resell it at huge profits.
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and it is an equally powerful ingredient for profitable manufacturing companies.
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