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    Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, with photos, fun, and good wishes for the future. eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? (Only $.99 !) In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, photographs, cartoons, poetry, essays, and reviews.The collection of essays and blog posts records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present.  Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.

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50% of the World will not have Clean Water by 2030

Posted on August 21, 2011 by iwilder

Access to water is a problem many are already facing. Significant water scarcities already exist in some regions of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development  OECD and in many non-OECD countries and with a growing world population, it is projected that almost half of the world’s population, or almost 4 billion people, will be living […]

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Arctic heat wave melting ice at record pace – US news – Environment – Discovery.com – msnbc.com

Posted on August 21, 2011 by iwilder

Arctic sea ice has melted away with astonishing speed in the first half of July, at an average rate of about 46,000 square miles per day, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colo. That’s equivalent to an area roughly the size of Pennsylvania melting into the sea every 24 […]

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Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?

Posted on August 20, 2011 by iwilder

h/t Roger Snyder For the past two decades, according to a whistle-blower at the SEC who recently came forward to Congress, the agency has been systematically destroying records of its preliminary investigations once they are closed. By whitewashing the files of some of the nation’s worst financial criminals, the SEC has kept an entire generation […]

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PA Green Party Opposes Privatization of Wine and Spirit Shops

Posted on August 17, 2011 by iwilder

The Steering Committee of the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA), www.gppa.org, has taken a firm position against privatization of PA Wine and Spirit Shops. Chair of the Green Party, I.K. Samways ( Allegheny County ) organized this poll and said in response to the outcome, “The Green Party is leading the opposition to Republican control of […]

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Warren Buffett, The Super-Rich, and Ralph Nader

Posted on August 15, 2011 by kwilder

KW: Many of today’s media are featuring a headline celebrating a recent statement by Warren Buffett, which asks the US government to stop coddling “The Super-Rich” and to raise taxes on billionaires. That is great and generous thinking. Though, it would be nice if the American media would acknowledge that some of Buffett’s thinking and […]

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Emma Watson & Livia Firth book about Sustainable Fashion

Posted on August 8, 2011 by iwilder

Actress Emma Watson, boutique owner Livia Firth, designer Vivienne Westwood, and model-entrepreneur Summer Rayne Oakes are just some of the bold-faced names set to appear in Naked Fashion, a book about the “new sustainable fashion revolution.” Written by People Tree founder Safia Minney, with a foreword by Firth and To Die For author Lucy Siegle, […]

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Tell Hershey We Want S’more Fair Trade!

Posted on August 7, 2011 by iwilder

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_0sC-SDsc0&feature=player_embedded] Even though the tasty treat is satisfying is there a way to get more from your s’more? Every summer, Global Exchange runs a fair trade s’more campaign to not only bring awareness to the chocolate industry but urge big players such as Hershy’s to change their ways. The “We Want More From Our S’mores“ is trying […]

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Organic farmers can sue GMO farmers

Posted on August 7, 2011 by iwilder

After enduring much hardship, the Johnsons finally ended up suing PFU in 2009 for negligence and trespass, only to receive denial from the district court that received the case. But after appealing, the Johnsons received favor from the Appeals Court, which ruled that particulate matter, including pesticides, herbicides, and even GM particulates, that contaminates nearby […]

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Green Party: Debt Deal is reason for voters to switch from Democratic and Republican parties in 2012

Posted on August 6, 2011 by iwilder

[youtube= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRfIcz6s-OY] Green Party candidates, officeholders, and leaderssaid that the Budget Control Act of 2011 should be the final straw for many voters, and encouraged Democrats and Republicans angry at their parties to vote Green Party in the 2012 election.

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Building Green: Good for Planet, The Wallet and The Bottom Line

Posted on August 6, 2011 by iwilder

Building Green: Good for Planet, The Wallet and The Bottom Line. That’s because a home with significant green features and efficiency can command as much as 30% over a traditional home – and sell in as little as one third the time. For sellers in a depressed housing market, that’s an impressive ROI for adding […]

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Nader’s Warning to Ratings Agencies

Posted on August 5, 2011 by iwilder

Now your lobbyists are pressing members of Congress to weaken further the provisions affecting rating agencies in the Dodd-Frank law in ways that will raise the risk-consequences for the savings and investments of innocent people. See the strong critique of your looming downgrade by arch-conservative columnist Holman W. Jenkins in the January 27, 2011 Wall […]

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Weiner : Walsh :: Sexting > Deadbeat Dad

Posted on August 1, 2011 by iwilder

According to the  Chicago Sun-Times: Freshman U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, a tax-bashing Tea Party champion who sharply lectures President Barack Obama and other Democrats on fiscal responsibility, owes more than $100,000 in child support to his ex-wife and three children, according to documents his ex-wife filed in their divorce case in December. IW: Yet this guy […]

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How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule

Posted on July 31, 2011 by iwilder

The dominant story of the current political debate is that the government is broke. We can’t afford to pay for public services, put people to work, or service the public debt. Yet as a nation, we are awash in money. A defective system of money, banking, and finance just puts it in the wrong places. […]

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Places to Intervene in a System, in case you don’t know (via Your Money or Your Life)

Posted on July 17, 2011 by iwilder

IW: Donella Meadows was a hero of mine. She was brilliant, and very human.  She was taken from us way too soon.  The Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System essay that this article talks about is a breath-taking introduction to systems thinking. Donella Meadows was one of my great mentors. She, Dennis Meadows and […]

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