By Anne Larracas and the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
The city of Alaminos is pioneering zero waste in the Philippines with an energetic fusion of bottom-up planning and community participation. Under a new law, the public and all levels of government share responsibility for managing waste. Villages, local officials, and non-profit allies are working together to meet the law
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Check out Rafeef Ziada’s powerful spoken word tribute to the ongoing struggle in Gaza, posted by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign:
Cross-posted from The Indypendent.
In the overlapping wakes of Hurricane Sandy and the reelection of a President who boasts of adding
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Cross-posted from Occupy Wall Street.
By Beverly Bell
As a native New Orleanian and as someone who has lived and worked in Haiti off and on for more than three decades
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