Tag Archives: Change For Good

Is Your Retirement Invested In Fossil Fuels? Time To Get Out Of Big Oil & Dirty Coal

Posted on September 16, 2015 by markt

By Stefanie Spear EcoWatch (9/15/15) With more than 91 million Americans having $5.6 trillion invested in the five major fund families that control recordkeeping at 75 percent of all employer-sponsored retirement plans, you’ve got to figure that many people are investing in … Continue reading →

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The City of Detroit Withheld Water From 40,000 People–So Activists Tapped The Mayor’s Mansion

Posted on September 11, 2015 by markt

  Activists Steal Water From Detroit Mayor And Give It To Residents ( Photo from downtrend.com ) By  Lauren Gaynor  In These Times (9/9/15) On the morning of August 3, volunteers from the Michigan and Detroit Coalitions Against Tar Sands (MICATS/DCATS) gathered at … Continue reading →

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Busting The Myth Of The Food Desert: A Farmer’s Market In Milwaukee Sautés Statistics

Posted on September 1, 2015 by markt

By John Collins in These Times (8/27/15) By any economic measure the 53206 zip code—part of a 120 block neighborhood on Milwaukee’s north side—is among Wisconsin’s most struggling. Sixty-six percent of households earn less than $30,000 per year while the … Continue reading →

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These Former Debt Collectors Decided To Ditch The Industry, Buy Up Medical Debt, And Forgive It

Posted on September 1, 2015 by markt

People coming together for crowd-funding for debt relief is becoming an increasingly popular trend. By Araz Hachadourian Yes!~ Magazine (8/20/15) When Paola Gonzalez received a phone call from RIP Medical Debt, she was certain what she heard was a mistake. A … Continue reading →

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The Key to Rational Argument: Reframe It As A Partnership

Posted on August 30, 2015 by dennis

  By Julia Galef Big Think One important mental shift that I and other people have found really useful in remaining fair minded and objective in arguments is instead of thinking about the argument as a battle where you’re trying … Continue reading →

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Rays Of Light And Hope In The Shadow Of Dark Money

Posted on August 29, 2015 by markt

blogs.lse.ac.uk Amid the onslaught of anonymous political donations, here are five promising strategies for 2016 and beyond. By Alyssa Katz The Nation (8/27/15) As the 2016 election season heats up, there is little doubt that dark money will once again dominate … Continue reading →

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New Project From Google Will Help Households To Go Off-Grid

Posted on August 24, 2015 by markt

TrueActivist.com (8/18/15) A new project from Google is aimed at helping households to go off-grid. It is called Project Sunroof, and it is powered by Google Maps.  It can calculate how much sun your roof gets and how much you will … Continue reading →

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Fourth-grader Raises Funds To Feed An Entire Haitian Village For A Year

Posted on August 10, 2015 by markt

By Peter Cox Minnesota Public Radio (8/8/15) Fourth-grader Sanya Pirani wants to end hunger — and she’s taking it one village at a time. It started last year, when the Prior Lake elementary school student saw a YouTube video of a … Continue reading →

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Swamp Power: How the World’s Wetlands Can Help Stop Climate Change

Posted on July 23, 2015 by markt

“I have a good conscience because I’m not working against nature.”  By Arthur Nelson The Guardian UK (7/20/15) In a boat drifting through a swampy reed plantation in the Polish Baltic, Szymon Smolczynski surveys his blanket of green crops destined … Continue reading →

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From Times Square To The Capitol, Apache Protesters Fight U.S. Land Swap With Mining Company

Posted on July 20, 2015 by markt

Naelyn Pike, a 16-year-old member of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, demonstrated in Times Square on Friday against a land swap between the federal government and a copper company that could affect land the protesters hold sacred. This is how we live. … Continue reading →

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17 Ways You Can Work For Social Justice

Posted on July 19, 2015 by markt

By Nina M. Flores Medium.com If you’re feeling inspired by the Supreme Court’s historic same-sex marriage decision, then do your part to help build and sustain forward momentum toward justice for all. Legalizing same-sex marriage is a huge victory, but it … Continue reading →

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Let Your Money Speak: Why Should The Koch Brothers Be The Only Ones To Have Their Cash Influence Public Opinion

Posted on July 18, 2015 by markt

Hey, everyone needs a hobby!   By Mark L. Taylor The Daily Call (7/18/15) You don’t have to have a Ph.D. in political science to know our political system has been highjacked and mugged by the corporations and the most … Continue reading →

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So, You Feel Like Giving Up? Remembering Folk Icon, Activist Pete Seeger In His Own Words & Songs

Posted on July 7, 2015 by markt

  www.elephantjournal.com   Democracy Now! (7/3/15) We end our Fourth of July holiday special remembering the late legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger. For nearly seven decades, Seeger was a musical and political icon who helped create the modern … Continue reading →

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Pope Francis Versus Wall Street

Posted on July 5, 2015 by markt

By Katrina vanden Heuvel The Nation (6/23/15)   “Laudato Si,’ ” Pope Francis’s stunning encyclical, has earned much deserved attention for its ringing declaration that climate change poses a real and present danger and is caused “mainly as a result of human activity.” … Continue reading →

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What It Is Really About: Pope Francis Shows How To Get The Moral Framing Right On Climate Crisis

Posted on June 28, 2015 by markt

“Human ecology is inseparable from the notion of the common good, a central and uni­fying principle of social ethics.”   By George Lakoff Reader Supported News (6/27/15) Beginning with my book Moral Politics in 1996 (Ch. 12), I have been arguing that … Continue reading →

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