Category Archives: environment

Consumer Capitalism Wins Again

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

Twenty years after the first substantive Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, representatives from more than 190 countries met again. Hopes were high, but unlike the first one, the 2012 Summit was mostly window dressing. President Obama, Prime … Continue reading →

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What We Don’t Know Can’t Hurt Us, Right?

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Arlen Grossman
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How to Help Your Planet

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Arlen Grossman
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The High Price of Materialism

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

What a un-American concept! More stuff doesn’r always mean more happiness; consumerism is not good for the environment; materialism does not promote social values. Where will this kind of radical philosophy lead us? Dare we even think about it? Video … Continue reading →

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U.S. Nuclear Plants To Be “Built With Steel and Cement and Lies and Fraud”

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

“A nuclear plant is built with steel and cement and lies and fraud – and that’s the take-a-way for today” THE FUKUSHIMA STORY YOU DIDN’T HEAR ON CNN by Greg Palast/ FreePress.org/ March 8, 2012 I’ve seen a lot of … Continue reading →

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BPR Quote of the Day: There’s a Tomorrow?

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

“To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief.  Or stupid.  A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today.  Assuming the land could also forget what had … Continue reading →

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Advertising’s High Cost to Society! Read This Now! You’ll Like It!

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

 by Arlen Grossman “Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.”                     … Continue reading →

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The Earth’s “High Noon”

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

BPR Guest Blogger KEYSTONE EXTRA LARGE by Hal Ginsberg/ Dagblog.com/ Jan. 19, 2012 It’s a great life. You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If … Continue reading →

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What is Radical?

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Arlen Grossman

350.org The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium by Bill McKibben The most important piece of news yesterday, this week, this month, and this year was a new set of statistics released yesterday by the Global Carbon Project. It … Continue reading →

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Greedy Lying Bastards

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Arlen Grossman

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