Common Dreams

Downsize Now!

Stan Cox argues that the massive square footage of so many modern houses -- no matter how "energy efficient" the construction -- is a luxury the planet can no longer afford.
16 March 2008 - 5:00am
Common Dreams

Mortgage Crisis a '50-State Katrina'

Filmmaker Danny Schechter reflects on the extent of America's debt crisis, and wonders if we need something like the Oscars to help name and identify those responsible.
28 February 2008 - 7:00am
Common Dreams

Lawn Greens

If 'peak oil' makes oil-intensive industrial agriculture economically unfeasible, will suburbanites need to turn their lawns into farming plots?
25 January 2008 - 5:00am
Common Dreams

Calling the Kettle Black

The launch of the Tata microcar has raised concerns about a huge magnification of traffic congestion and pollution. But without changes in the developed world, such criticisms are hypocritical, write Brendan Smith, Tim Costello and Jeremy Brecher.
23 January 2008 - 9:00am
Common Dreams

Town On The Farm

The massive farm bill making its way through Congress will only perpetuate social and environmental sustainability. What's also needed is legislation to boost the urban economics of local food production, writes Christopher Cook.
21 December 2007 - 9:00am
Common Dreams

Mortgage Crisis Fueling America's Homelessness Boom

The mortgage crisis is contributing to a dramatic increase in homeless families.
15 October 2007 - 6:00am
Common Dreams

Bay Area Economics

Focused on The Economics of Place since 1986

The 'Greening' of Wal-Mart?

Recent attempts to "greenwash" Wal-Mart in the media don't hold water, write Ruben Garcia and Andrea Buffa.
3 October 2007 - 11:00am
Common Dreams

NOLA Demolitions Exacerbate Housing Discrimination

Mass demolitions of apartments and housing discrimination are adding to African-Americans' post-Katrina recovery woes.
27 September 2007 - 11:00am
Common Dreams

How the Federal Reserve Burst the Bubble

By denying that the American housing market was artificially inflated, and by keeping interest rates low and encouraging risky mortgage lending, the Federal Reserve contributed significantly to the inevitable bursting of the housing bubble.
9 September 2007 - 7:00am
Common Dreams

The Case Against Nuclear Power

The pending Senate Energy Bill will support a "new generation" nuclear power plants. But they will be no different from the last generation, which have been a "lethal failure" according to Harvey Wasserman.
21 August 2007 - 10:30am
Common Dreams

Poverty Now A 'Routine' Part Of The American Experience, Study Finds

Poverty rates in the United States are at a 32-year high, and a new study suggests that 58% of Americans will experience poverty at least once in their lives.
25 February 2007 - 1:00pm
Common Dreams

Is Keeping Wal-Mart Out of a Community 'Class Warfare'?

The controversial use of eminent domain to keep Wal-Mart out of Hercules, CA is criticized as a means of keeping lower-income shoppers away.
30 May 2006 - 6:00am
Common Dreams

Eight Months Later, Little Progress In New Orleans

Eight months after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still struggling with devastated infrastructure, overburdened and understaffed hospitals, and a denuded public housing stock.
27 April 2006 - 8:00am
Common Dreams

Environmentalists Criticize Landfilling Of NOLA Debris

While some effort has been made to re-direct hurricane debris from the landfill, environmentalists charge that there are no plans to recycle New Orleans' building materials, leaving a "massive environmental liability for the future."
14 April 2006 - 9:00am
Common Dreams

Congressman Pushes For 'Louisiana Recovery Corporation Act'

Market forces alone haven't been able to generate needed investments in areas devastated by Katrina, and people have nothing to return to without those investments. A new idea has promise.
17 February 2006 - 7:00am
Common Dreams

12 Steps To Breaking Oil Dependence

While President Bush admitted that the United States is addicted to oil, he offered few real remedies. To address this gap, Michael Brune of the Rainforest Action Network offers a '12-Step' energy program for America.
7 February 2006 - 7:00am
Common Dreams

Master of His Own Eminent Domain?

A citizens' group, angered over the Supreme Court's recent controversial eminent domain decision, is seeking to use the new law to evict Supreme Court Justice David Souter from his own home.
24 January 2006 - 5:00am
Common Dreams

Farmland or McMansions?

Suburban and exurban developments are pushing traditional land uses aside at a rate of more than a million acres of rural land per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
15 December 2005 - 12:00pm
Common Dreams

We Need More than Disaster Planning -- We Need Communities

Ensuring that America's technologically-reliant but vulnerable cities can survive natural disasters and other disruptions may mean that Americans have to look beyond their traditional value of "self-reliance" -- and possibly redefine what it means to be a
10 November 2005 - 11:00am
Common Dreams
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