NewWays for Environmental and Social Change

SHAPLEIGH, Maine - Walk about 100 yards down a well-worn path, past wild berry bushes, and take a left into leafy growth. Just a few more feet into the green canopy, and there they are, jutting out from the earth.
“I don’t even like the sight of them here,” said Liz McMahon, a Shapleigh resident for [...]

You’re going to be more secure if there are no nuclear weapons in the world, because if you achieve this goal, you won’t be risking having nuclear weapons blow up in one of our cities.

At the conferences abroad I’ve been attending, it was certainly borne in on me that the notion of a two-tiered world—where some countries can have nuclear weapons and others can’t—is getting less and less acceptable.

Not only has the city of San Francisco taken the lead to ban the use of plastic bags, but also the mayor has placed an executive order on the buying of plastic bottled water. Not only is the manufacture of plastic water bottles destructive to the environment, relying heavily on chemicals for production to transportation, [...]

Over 10,000 people in Oregon have decided to put the power of elections back into the hands of the people. Oregonian have developed an alternative plan to counter the troublesome conventional elections that tend to balloon campaign spending and marginalize many prospective candidates from entering a fair playing field.
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