As we push towards a truly green and sustainable revolution, business people and ecologists are increasingly forced to learn one another's language.  Since the inception of environmentalism as a movement, business and economic activity was implicitly viewed as anathema, cruel and unresponsive, and responsible for the destruction of the natural world.   Now, as climate change [...]

In many ways, I see partisan politics as a ploy to create the illusion of choice and, in the words of Noam Chomsky, to "manufacture consent". Polarizing the electorate has always ensured a 50/50 chance of victory. Limiting our choices on election day is one of the most conscious [...]

The gospel of contemporary economic dogma is growth: growth in total exports, growth in GNP, growth in per capita income. Economic growth is at the heart of the neo-liberal agenda at home and abroad. We are made to believe that economic growth, spurred by nothing more than the further penetration of [...]

 Yesterday I went for a nice long hike in the foothills of the nearby Sandia mountains. An average temperature of 60 degrees brought the locals out in droves, and the hilltops and trails were dotted with the motion of red and white sweat shirts on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. [...]

The Death of Environmentalism is a good thing. So say goodbye to an outdated political ideology where people live in trees while the rest of the forest is destroyed, where a single species is converted into a political cause, lobbyists and all, and the nation becomes polarized around the false [...]