Uneven Developments
My Recession
May 12, 2010
New York State Governor David Patterson is trying to impose furloughs on 100,000 state workers. I’m one of them. The […]
Read PostThe Right to the City
May 11, 2010
The luxury condo boom is over! Over 4,000 of these condos sit vacant in 9 predominantly low-income NYC communities. Meanwhile, […]
Read PostThe Death of Journalism?
May 9, 2010
I just read a very upsetting post on the website of Triple Canopy, a very interesting online mixed-media journal. On […]
Read PostCapitalism=Crisis
May 6, 2010
Greece is in revolt. Not surprisingly, though, the protests there are being totally misrepresented in the mainstream media. Much attention […]
Read PostDarwinian Evolution in Fast-Forward
May 4, 2010
I was teaching at the University of Iowa during the mid-1990s when Monsanto first brought out crops that were genetically […]
Read PostHow to Challenge Green Capitalism
May 2, 2010
Green capitalism may yet undo itself. Unfortunately it’s likely to take the rest of planetary civilization down with it. The […]
Read PostA Not-So-Natural Disaster
April 30, 2010
In a powerful essay on the impact of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the geographer Neil Smith argues that “there […]
Read PostSmackdown on Wall Street
April 29, 2010
Today I attended a march on Wall Street organized by National People’s Action to protest the stranglehold big banks have […]
Read PostLesson in Darkness
April 28, 2010
Following up on my last post, things have gotten even more nightmarish in the Gulf of Mexico. BP is now […]
Read PostAdvanced Subsea Technology
April 27, 2010
I arrived back in the U.S. still filled with elation from the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the […]
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