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Sustainability Movement is in Dire Need of Minority Outreach

The environmental movement is, and has been, well aware of the fact that it needs to work on increasing ethnic, age, and income diversity. Mark Tercek, the CEO of The Nature Conservancy, contemplates in his April 7th Huffington Post Green article a study in which EPA officials challenge the movement to become more racially diverse.

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Limitations of the Free Market and the Value of Natural Capital Maintenance

By: Maggie Winslow The financial crisis has made abundantly clear what many economists have been arguing for decades: the free market can not be depended on to maximize social welfare. Free markets can be very efficient for allocating resources in certain types of markets. The promise of free-markets holds when certain conditions are met. However, [...]

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Don’t Buy the Clean Energy Illusion

Last week, President Obama addressed the nation. He talked about jobs, energy, education, and bipartisan necessities… All in all, it was a fantastic pep rally that answered few important questions, but got the masses all riled up anyway. Obama supporters cheered and got a fresh jolt of cosmetic enthusiasm, though it’s likely most still don’t [...]

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Calculating Our Natural Deficit

As the country begins to emerge from the economic downturn, we are hearing more and more discussion about our soaring national debt, which currently stands at more than $13 trillion. This kind of number is almost too high to comprehend, but we can safely assume that future generations will be impacted. Now think for a [...]

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Cost of Deforestation is Vastly Greater than that of the Current Financial Crisis

While your 401K smolders in ruins, take a gander at this BBC article and it might give you some perspective. Unfortunately, it’s not immediately an optimistic perspective: We are actually losing more money through deforestation than through the current financial meltdown. The reasoning behind this is clear when we start calculating the often overlooked value [...]

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