An intimate portrait of a rural community’s work to undermine the military industrial complex, subvert capitalism, reclaim land, and bond faith communities together.
2011
Shasta and Goliath: Bringing Down Corporate Rule
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Mt. Shasta, a small northern California town of 3,500 residents nestled in the foothills of magnificent Mount Shasta, is taking on corporate power through an unusual process — democracy.
2011
The Age of Super Crises
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Consider the latest toxic spill in Hungary. To put it in terms that anyone can grasp, it is as though we filled up the entire Empire State Building with some of the worst stuff imaginable, tipped the building completely on its side, and then spilled the full contents on the ground. The resulting mess would have filled an area of approximately seventeen square blocks, or slightly over a half-mile in any direction.
2011
Reaffirming Beauty: A Step Toward Sustainability
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We know the earth is beautiful. We equate the livingness of it with beauty. When we mourn the loss of life, we also know that we mourn the loss of beauty. And we look to beauty as a marker of life, even life that has been badly mutilated.
2010
Disaster in the Gulf: A Plague to Warn Us to Change Our Relationship to the Earth
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Instead of messing around with partial measures, President Obama should transform our approach to the environment by orienting it around this key idea: the earth is not a “resource” to be used for private profit.
2010
OYL! Corruption, the Spirit, the Earth, and Us
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This is not an oil “spill” we are facing, the way water might spill from a dish or oil from a tanker—a finite amount in the first place, and then we clean up. This is more like piercing a hole into the Caverns of Hell, so that they pour forth without limit.
2005
The Air We Breathe…
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There is yet more for us to fear. The burden that debt puts upon the developing world endangers us all in an even more fundamental way. It threatens the air we breathe, the food we eat, the survival of our species. It poses a threat to our very planet.