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 […]

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The 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, […]

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The 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 […]

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Capitalism=Crisis

May 6, 2010

Greece is in revolt.  Not surprisingly, though, the protests there are being totally misrepresented in the mainstream media.  Much attention […]

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Darwinian 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 […]

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How 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 […]

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A 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 […]

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Smackdown 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 […]

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Lesson 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 […]

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Advanced 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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