Renowned conservation photographer Tim Palmer has 22 books to his name, two in the pipeline, and plenty more still to come.
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Occupy New Haven Day of Action – November 5th
More information and opportunities to get involved with Occupy New Haven here — From the Yale Working Group of Occupy New Haven: “A march has been planned for Saturday the 5th at noon on the downtown New Haven Green. A march will proceed, symbolically up Wall Street, turning onto Church Street in front of the Banks, and pausing at City Hall […]
Polar Brokers
Drawing by Byron King.
World Population: 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0 Billion!
Today is 7 billion day, the day on which world population officially hits 7 billion. In honor of this momentous occasion, Sage did a quick and decidedly non-comprehensive roundup of the news–not only from this year, but also from the years of future and previous population milestones. Rev up the time machine!
Featured Lecture – Gus Speth: “Letter to Liberals: Liberalism, Environmentalism, and Economic Growth”
James Gustave Speth, Yale F&ES Dean Emeritus, speaking at the 30th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures (November 20, 2010) hosted by the New Economics Institute. VIDEO provided by the New Economy Working Group (Speth introduced at 5:15; Speth begins speaking at 6:50) TRANSCRIPT provided by Vermont Law School Additional and upcoming lectures referred to below. — I found this excellent and timely lecture while […]
Planet Earth
The Atlantic pieces together a series of incredible videos from the international space station.
“Yale for Occupy” Student Group Formed
From Yale for Occupy: “You can join the listserv at http://groups.google.com/group/occupyyale. Please forward this link to anyone else who might be interested.” — “Yale for Occupy” represents the convergence of #Occupy supporters and occupiers from all corners of the Yale campus – undergraduate and graduate students. This larger group was formalized through the general assembly consensus process at an Oct 27th congregation. The new group […]
“Everything the Tea Party Pretended to Be and Isn’t, Occupy Wall Street Is”
http://griid.org/2011/10/29/occupy-wall-street-v-the-tea-party Jeff Smith distinguishes between populism and “false populism” in a thought provoking piece that analyzes a now popular dialogue comparing the Occupy movement with the Tea Party movement. “Beyond easily noticeable similarities, however, deep and fundamental differences significantly undermine the Tea Party-OWS parallel posited by Scherer and other mainstream commentators.” “The Tea Party was and is not a social movement at all […]
7 Billion – which are you?
World population is about to hit (or has hit) 7 billion. What number baby were you? Use this calendar from The Guardian to find out.
“Police Fire Tear Gas at Occupy Protesters in Oakland” (NY Times)
Members of #Occupy Movement were forcefully confronted and arrested by riot police this morning in Oakland, CA as they triend to re-enter a space they had been removed from. – NYTimes full story with photographs and video here. – More detail from the Huffington Post here. *Images and video from this morning are quite intense.
NYT/CBS News Poll Shows Distrust in Government
See this link for the recent NYT/CBS News poll about perceptions of Obama, the US Government and OWS.
Environmental Solidarity Working Group & Climate Justice Day @ OWS
– If you believe you can help with the below efforts, or would like to get involved generally, please email: Environmentalist Solidarity: owseswg@gmail.com If you can physically participate with the Environmental Solidarity Working Group – meetings are held daily at 4pm in the atrium at 60 Wall St. – A new Working Group has been formed in at #Occupy in […]