Study: Super Enviro Voters are Black Hispanic Urban and Poor
Air Date: Week of May 3, 2019 in Living on Earth stream/download this segment as an MP3 file The Americans who care most strongly about the environment are more likely to … Continue reading →
Digital Fascism 2: Carole Cadwalladr on the Crimes of Facebook
Carole Cadwalladr, journalist for the UK’s Observer, asks whether it is possible to have ‘free and fair’ elections anywhere in the world under the aegis of digital platform companies like … Continue reading →
Digital Fascism 3: The Disinformation Age
The Disinformation Age: Beware the ‘Weaponized’ Web, Says Guy Who Helped Elect Trump Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie on Facebook, democracy and hope. Christopher Wylie, of highlighter hair and Cambridge … Continue reading →
#XR: Disrupting the Carbon Capitalist System
Why the reaction to Extinction Rebellion reveals the scale of climate conflict to come By Christopher Silver, originally published in Bella Caledonia April 23, 2019 I’d like to spend a … Continue reading →
Bangkok Art Biennale at Wat Arun
I had thought of the lack of material culture in Buddhism, compared with other religions, as a ‘lack’. Buddhist music, dance and visual art, what there is of it, is … Continue reading →
Digital Fascism
This German investigative news program digs deep to show who and what was behind the two most surprising electoral campaigns of 2016: the Brexit Leave Campaign and the election of … Continue reading →
AOC and the Green New Deal
You may not realize this, but Alexandria Ocasio Cortez did not dream up the Green New Deal. The GND is a policy platform that was developed by the New Consensus, … Continue reading →
Decarbonize Buddhism
A proposal from DANCE-Atlantic (Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement): A Buddhist No-Fly Pledge. Buddhist teachers and practitioners take too many air-flights over long distances to teach, go on retreats, … Continue reading →
Vandana Shiva: the Earth is One Family
The Preface to Vandana Shiva’s latest book, Oneness v. the 1 Percent, is a hymn to Earth as One Family that either thrives together or goes extinct together. It comes … Continue reading →
Adi Don
via Adi Don Warning: this is Satire, like The Onion The point of this satire is that Trump spews the same kind of mindless, cockamamie bullshit that many contemporary televangelists, … Continue reading →
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