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ARTICLE PICK: Copenhagen – Just a Cop Out?

by Tom Athanasiou Posted at YES! Magazine on Dec 22, 2009 Copenhagen was obviously a failure—if you judge it by “the numbers,” the formal emission targets and [...]

BOOK PICK: St. Francis and the Foolishness of God

By Marie Dennis, Joseph Nangle, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Stuart Taylor To those who long to do something about inequity and poverty, about consuming consumerism and spiritual emptiness. The mystical and the earthly, liberations and faithfulness, literal poverty as well as the blessed poverty of the spirit.

BOOK PICK: Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance

By Derrick Jensen Whereas Volume 1 of “Endgame” presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, “Endgame” leap-frogs the environmental movement’s deadlock over our willingness to change our conduct, focusing instead on our ability to adapt to the impending ecological revolution. Derrick Jensen, [...]

BOOK PICK: Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization

By Derrick Jensen “Derrick Jensen is a rare and original voice of sanity in a chaotic world. He has wisdom and wit, grace and style, and is a wonderful guide to a good life beautifully lived.”-Howard Zinn The companion piece to Derrick Jensen’s immensely popular and highly acclaimed works “A Language Older Than Words” and “The Culture [...]

BOOK PICK: Ecology and Liberation: A New Paradigm

By Leonardo Boff

BOOK PICK: Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor

By Leonardo Boff, Leonardo Hoff, Phillip Berryman “Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor” represents Leonardo Boff’s most systematic effort to date to link the spirit of liberation theology with the urgent challenge of ecology. Focusing on the threatened Amazon of his native Brazil, Boff traces the ties that bind the fate of the rain [...]