USA

MAY 16, 2021

The urban food forest in Browns Mills, Atlanta, is one of more than 70 such initiatives scattered across the United States: all the work of volunteers determined to fight food insecurity through urban agriculture.

MAY 16, 2021

The Biden administration has approved the 800-megawatt, US$3-billion Vineyard Wind project off the Massachusetts coast, the United States’ first utility-scale offshore wind farm and a key plank of the new White House effort to shift the country’s electricity system to renewables.

The 84-turbine project will be located off Martha’s Vineyard, near Cape Cod, The Associated Press reports.

A slow beginning to this article, but it contains a lot of information about what needs to be done (and is NOT being done or even planned) to save at least some of our billions from the impacts of climate disruption. Given how thorough the author is, what is discouraging--and more than a little strange--is that the word "capitalism" is never mentioned. As someone once said, if you don't know where you have to go, no road will take you there.

     - Gene McGuckin

May 12, 2021

May 14, 2021

MAY 11, 2021

From lawsuits in Arizona to promises by French politician Marine Le Pen to make her country “the world’s first ecological civilization,” the far right is weaponizing the climate crisis to advance its xenophobic agenda, The Huffington Post reports.

"Maybe Vancouver isn’t the bastion of progressive multiculturalism it thinks it is."

May 10, 2021

May 4 2021

Editor: This is an interesting interview on the subject of how democratic socialism might be advanced.

May 2, 2021

Azadeh Reisdana interviews Sam Gindin on the recent growth of democratic socialism in developing countries and as an ideology which attracts a new younger generation of socialists. They also discuss the expansion of democratic socialism to not only a political theory but also as an economic application. This was recorded online during the Covid lockdown, March 2021.