Greenvisions

07/27/2022

Something that should give all of us pause for thought. Just how fragile is the
web of technology that we depend on for everyday life?

This is why I enjoy foraging, camping, and cooking food outdoors. These skills can sustain us ‘when technology fails’.

04/29/2022

May 1st, the true Labor Day. We need to teach and learn the struggles that workers have faced trying to get humane conditions for their employment. In many ways, today's Labor struggles are over the same issues workers were organizing against in 1886.

May 1st is International Workers’ Day, a day workers around the world mark as Labor Day with marches, demonstrations, and renewed calls for workers’ rights. “May Day” got its start in 1886, when U.S. workers rallied in support of ongoing campaigns for an eight-hour day, setting May 1st as a ...

03/09/2022

The existing system of national boundaries and property rights that do not recognize the right of everything dependent on that property is not the only way that things can be managed. Organizing along bioregions, with emphasis given to restoring a nd preserving the regional ecology and meeting the needs of all the people, living in the bioregion would be a better solutions to the problems that we face.

Bioregional approaches, encompassing radical democracy, offer communities the chance to rebuild and enhance their lives and livelihoods.

02/18/2022

One more pool of taxpayer dollars is being doled out to corporations to manage and control. Private industry has no incentive to hold down prices for care and for pharmaceuticals.

The Biden administration has quietly decided to continue a Trump administration scheme whose ultimate goal is the privatization of Medicare. Americans would be outraged — if anyone knew about it.

02/03/2022

The price we are all paying for the deregulation and internationalization of the shipping
industry.

How the unsustainable growth of the container ship industry led to the supply chain crisis

01/27/2022

Why are corporations so opposed to unions. Because unions give workers a greater
ability to have decent wages and benefits like health care.

One of the most important things that could be done to generate a more equitable economy is to dismantle the barriers to union organizing and collective bargaining (McNicholas et al. 2019; Oliver 2021). New data on unionization from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS 2022), coupled with evidence on...

01/10/2022

Rome is burning and we have no one to blame but ourselves.

After the January 6 violence at the Capitol, Americans got a bigger national security state. What they didn’t get was solutions to any of the underlying forces that helped bolster right-wing extremism.

01/10/2022

January 6 was not an aberration, it was the should have been expected result of our decades long abandonment of the responsibility to govern. Unless we see a sea change in our elected leaders, the long running malaise that brought about January 6 will continue.

The January 6 Capitol riot was the product of a decades-long attempt to destroy democracy in America — one that Democrats have never made an effort to stop by creating a government that is serious about the public interest.

12/23/2021

I recently read a column by a wise cooperator who stated: We do not choose cooperatives because they are easy; […]

12/07/2021

When actually doing the math gives a better outcome than than trying to make things more equal. Of course all of that would depend on whether or not those families are actually going to pay the tax on their actual income. Making it the law, by putting it in the tax code, does not guarantee that people who can will not find creative ways to shield much of their income from taxes.

Universal benefits aren't merely the morally just way to carry out welfare policies. They are also the smart way to carry out welfare policies.

12/03/2021

Build Back Better highlights how upper-income whites engage in discrimination every bit as harmful as that ascribed to working-class whites. It also aims to stop it.

12/01/2021

At some point we will have to reduce consumption. Continuing to produce more and more goods will almost certainly result in our inability to continue production. That may be 50 years from now or it may even be tomorrow.

Some familiar metals just moved to a critical minerals lists in the United States as supply chain difficulties made even nickel and zinc supplies problematic. Will bringing manufacturing "back home" really solve the problem?