All Views Articles for 2013-08-11

Sunday, August 11, 2013
Peter Bosshard
Why the World Bank Shies Away From Energy Efficiency
Decentralized renewable energy projects are highly effective at reducing energy poverty. Energy conservation and efficiency improvements are the cheapest way to close the gap between energy demand...
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Rana Encol
Gasland Redux? Penobsquis: “New Brunswick's Dirty Little Secret”
Potash and gas industry is thriving, but residents worry about their health, environment
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Michelle Chen
More Bad Apple: Watchdog Exposes New Chinese Factory Abuses
Apple's growth and reputation for innovation have long been built on the shaky foundation of rock-bottom wages and poor labor conditions in Chinese factories. Now, a new investigation by the New York...
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Ethan Parke
The Long and Unfinished Struggle: Single Payer Health Care in Vermont
In 1998, Dr. Deb Richter began, almost single handedly, to revive the dream of universal health care in the United States—open to all and paid for by the government. A primary care physician from...
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Alexander Abdo, Patrick Toomey
The NSA Is Turning the Internet Into a Total Surveillance System
Now we know all Americans' international email is searched and saved, we can see how far the 'collect it all' mission has gone
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Jim Hightower
The Border-Industrial Complex
War profiteers have spied a new place they can militarize with their high-tech, high-cost weaponry.
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