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"Another powerful argument for localization, in this case, for expanding & strengthening community forest rights: 'New analysis suggests that in areas formally overseen by local communities, deforestation rates are dozens to hundreds of times lower than in areas overseen by governments or private entities.' The implications for mitigating climate change are significant." -article pass: "Forest Rights Offer Major Opportunity to Counter Climate Change" via CommonDreams on July, 24 2014
We’ve all had them. The dreams about being chased, flying, falling, dying and being naked in front of others. These are some of the most common dreams to have - but what do they mean? #dreams #dreaminterpretation #dreammeaning #commondreams #dreamsabout
Our national wealth has grown by an astonishing $30 trillion since the recession, but most of it has gone to people who were already wealthy. We are living through a massive redistribution of America's net worth to the beneficiaries of a financial industry that has used cunning and money and power to impose their version of economic "freedom" while deregulating any policies that might have stopped the incessant transfer of wealth.
Move Over, Koch Brothers: A Bigger, Darker Rightwing Funder Is Out to Destroy Public Education | Common Dreams - The Bradley Foundation, headed by Governor Scott Walker's campaign co-chair Michael Grebe, has underwritten a massive, pro-privatization propaganda campaign, including "a systematic and relentless campaign to turn public opinion against the public school system."
We live in the lonely existential reality of impending climate catastrophe, while still surrounded by wide denial. “Tyrannies begin as festivals of the depressed...” If we still read philosophy, literature, history, poetry and theology we would not be surprised that greed, hedonism and hubris have easily defeated empathy and reason. But because we do not, because we spend hours each day getting little bursts of dopamine from electronic screens, we think we are unique in human existence...