Toward a World that Works for Everyone
By Angie Brown,BBC, May 15, 2024 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5nxy7ewldo Mary Morton goes out into the parks and streets of Edinburgh to repair the clothes of passers-by for free. The 67-year-old fixes, mends and shows people how to breathe new life into their tired garments – and has built an army of volunteer street stitchers who work across […]
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ “Terrifying, tremendous courtroom drama” – The Globe and Mail “First-rate nonfiction storytelling.” – Variety Does the most widely used weed killer in the world cause cancer? Into the Weeds follows the riveting story of groundskeeper Lee Johnson and his fight for justice against agrochemical giant, Monsanto (now Bayer), the manufacturer […]
A Massive Oil Spill Helped One Billionaire Avoid Paying Income Tax for 14 Years Phyllis Taylor’s company is responsible for the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history. That’s been a disaster for the Gulf of Mexico — but a tax bonanza for Taylor. By Jesse Eisinger, Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, December 9, 2021 […]
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This is a long read, posted in full, illustrating how oil companies avoid paying for clean-up of closed or non-producing wells. Shell Game Andrew Nikiforuk, TheTyee.ca, 20 May 2020 (https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/05/20/Shell-Game-Sour-Gas-Wells/) Alberta has a huge problem with drill site clean up and dicey deals shifting who pays. Mike Judd had enough, so the cowboy fought and […]
Happy Earth Day! I want to talk about restoring Mother Earth but I’d also like to fold into that a discussion of recovering from the pandemic. I think our eyes have been opened to the tremendous polluting and despoiling of Mother Earth we humans have caused over millennia. At the same time, we as a […]
