A First: 400 ppm Happened Last Week; Wilder Weather on Its Way

400 (ppm) parts per million carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hasn’t happened in at least 3 million years. That was back during the geological era known as Pliocene, long before Homo sapiens had evolved on the planet. Earth was a number of degrees warmer during the Pliocene than it is at this moment; sea levels may have been as much as 80 feet higher. But on May 9 (2013), scientists in the Mauna Loa Laboratory in Hawaii, the benchmark-establishing lab, measured 400 ppm according to the Los Angeles Times.

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The Climate Cliff: Bill McKibben

You don’t need to be good at math to understand the three numbers in Bill’s climate crisis equation.

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How Jubilee Economics Grew Out of the Struggle for Life

Whatever you find on this website, know this: It all began with a book. And know that that book grew out of the struggle for life among Latin Americans who were being kept poor by their governments, armies, and lots of backing through U.S. foreign policies that preferred the imposed order of dictators to the uncertain democracies of the people.

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Ready for Pentecost?

Pentecost is the festival of the Holy Spirit. The spirit is an agent of change. Christians believe in the presence of the Holy Spirit to help things happen now. Pentecost season is a time to focus on change, transformation.

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Supply Shock - Brian Czech's case

Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution

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Enough Is Enough

Economic growth is pitched like the answer to all problems. We need to open space for a new conversation and a new plan.

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The Food Revolution Is for Real, for You, ... and Has Gone Virtual Too

Since we eat every day, why not eat our way into this revolution? Virtually and in real life, I’m completely for reclaiming our food from Monsanto and corporate agriculture who show zero care for our health. They are driven to OWN all our food seeds through patents and to control what we eat from seed to stomach. Revolting against such domination of our food is a holy and healing choice. It heals the climate, the land, the water, our relationship to nature, and lots of illnesses too, especially diabetes, obesity, cancers, and cardivascular disease. So, I registered for the FREE summit to step further into the revolution.

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