Contributor Kosta Grammatis discovers a secret garden inside Chicago’s O’Hare Airport and explores other ways vertical farming impacts restaurants and even schools.
Investigative journalist Pio D’Emilia has lived and worked in Tokyo for over 30 years, but nothing prepared him for the triple tragedy of March 11, 2011.
AJAM Presents: Fukushima – a Nuclear Story
Sunday, March 6, 2016 – 10p ET
At 3:46pm on March 12, 2011, a huge explosion shattered the top of Reactor Building #1 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Panic escalates and the country is in chaos.
AJAM Presents: Fukushima – a Nuclear Story
Sunday, March 6, 2016 – 10p ET
Japan is known for its culture and values of honor, trust, and order. In 2011, the largest recorded earthquake in Japan became the catalyst for the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Not only did it affect the people of Japan and the world, it created a time of panic, suspicion, and sense of betrayal from the government. The fallout continues, and Fukushima has been remembered as a changing point in Japan’s history.
America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, joins Beth Green on Inner Revolutionary Radio to discuss how the faults of capitalism can lead to destructive corporate malfeasance, many times reaching all the way to the courtroom.
Last year the House and Senate passed versions of legislation which aimed to replace the 40-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act, with both parties and the EPA acknowledging the old law was obsolete and inefficient. However, it emerged that the bill would deprive states of their rights to regulate chemicals, sparking outrage from environmental activists. It may also protect chemical companies from lawsuits. RT America’s Alexey Yaroshevsky breaks it down.
At a Microsoft-hosted breakfast, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter spoke about the recently announced program, “Hack the Pentagon,” which will invite hackers to test the Pentagon’s security, starting next month. (March 3)
In her fourth book Mayer draws on court records, extensive interviews, and many private archives to examine the growing political influence of extreme libertarians among the one percent, such as the Koch brothers, tracing their ideas about taxation and government regulation and their savvy use of lobbyists to further an agenda that advances their own interests at the expense of meaningful economic, environmental, and labor reform.
Mayer is in conversation with James Bennet, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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Welcome to Transition Studies. To prosper for very much longer on the changing Earth humankind will need to move beyond its current fossil-fueled civilization toward one that is sustained on recycled materials and renewable energy. This is not a trivial shift. It will require a major transition in all aspects of our lives.
This weblog explores the transition to a sustainable future on our finite planet. It provides links to current news, key documents from government sources and non-governmental organizations, as well as video documentaries about climate change, environmental ethics and environmental justice concerns.
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