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Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Tar Sands May Double By 2020
 By Steven Lacey

http://www.countercurrents.org/lacey090811.htm

A newly-released report from the Canadian government reinforces the looming environmental impact of tar sands oil: As producers ramp up their activity, due in large part from a projected increase in demand from U.S. refineries, greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta's tar sands could double by 2020 compared to 2010 levels


GDP Is Dead: Will The World Be Happier Without It?
 By Richard Heinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/heinberg090811.htm

Memo to politicians: Stop promising to grow GDP and start targeting social benefits you can actually deliver—or prepare to face angry mobs. Nothing grows forever on a finite planet, not even the US economy


Panic On The Streets Of London
 By Laurie Penny

http://www.countercurrents.org/penny090811.htm

Most of the people who will be writing, speaking and pontificating about the disorder this weekend have absolutely no idea what it is like to grow up in a community where there are no jobs, no space to live or move, and the police are on the streets stopping-and-searching you as you come home from school


The ELP Plan: Economize, Localize And Produce
 By Jeffery Brown

http://www.countercurrents.org/brown090811.htm

In this article I will expound on my reasoning behind the ELP plan, otherwise known as "Cut thy spending and get thee to the non-discretionary side of the economy."


Design For Social Innovation:
 An Interview With Ezio Manzini
 By Sarah Brooks

http://www.countercurrents.org/brooks090811.htm

Ezio Manzini is an Italian design strategist, one of the world's leading experts on sustainable design, author of numerous design books, professor of Industrial Design at Milan Polytechnic, and founder of the DESIS (Design for Social Innovation towards Sustainability) network of university-based design labs. His work over the past 30 years in sustainability and social innovation has coalesced around four watchwords: small, local, open and connected


What Could A Post-Growth Society Look Llike
 And How Should We Prepare For It?
 By Brian Davey

http://www.countercurrents.org/davey090811.htm

This was the theme of a massive congress held in Berlin last month. Brian Davey attended it and has written a report for Feasta in which he describes the role played by Attac and the Decroissance movement, Vandana Shiva's critique of economic growth in India, the vision of "Buen Vivir" put forward by representatives of indigenous communities of Latin America and the new relationship being forged between the greens and the left in Europe


Anti-Environment Australian Government's
 Carbon Tax Deceit
 By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090811.htm

Australia is a world leader in annual par capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and in fossil fuel exports and there is an unspoken bipartisan agreement in climate criminal Australia that it will keep burning and exporting fossil fuels until the World makes it stop


Straining Every Nerve Against
 UN Membership For Palestine
 By Josh Ruebner

http://www.countercurrents.org/ruebner090811.htm

The Roman philosopher and politician Cicero urged orators to "Strain every nerve to gain your point." The Obama Administration appears to have taken his advice to heart in its attempts to make the case that the United States should oppose Palestinian efforts to gain membership in the United Nations this fall


Spain's "Indignados" At The Vanguard Of
 A Global Nonviolent Revolt
 By Pablo Ouziel

http://www.countercurrents.org/ouziel090811.htm

Last night Madrid's city centre offered a glimpse of what Western democracies have become, as thousands of unarmed nonviolent civilians with their hands up in the air shouting "these are our weapons" and "this is a dictatorship" were beaten by police commandos in full riot gear. This event was the culmination of a month of intense mobilizations across the country by the popular movement known as the 'Indignados'


What's The Matter With Kids These Days?
 By Frank Rummel

http://www.countercurrents.org/rummel090811.htm

Take a gander at the state of affairs of today's youth and you have to wonder... For starters, they have their $90,000 student loan to pay off for waitressing school or hamburger slinging University or whatever their "vital to modern civilization", unduplicated by Asian slave labor, skill is


Namaste And Osama Bin Laden
 By Mary Hamer

http://www.countercurrents.org/hamer090811.htm

The purpose of this essay is: To apply the concept of Namaste to the relationship between the West & the Middle East , specifically between the United States & Osama bin Laden


Planet, People And Profit Key To
 Environmental Campaign
 By Syed Ali Mujtaba

http://www.countercurrents.org/mujtaba090811.htm

A report on a workshop on climate change focusing youth, organized in Chennai


Revival Of Institutions- A Historic Look
 By Fayyaz A. Soomro

http://www.countercurrents.org/soomro090811.htm

It is need of time that all people of Pakistan should stand shoulder to shoulder in bringing transparency in the institutions, proper utilization of the resources and effective implementation of the long term policies at right time with true political will by ensuring democratic values


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