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Planned Obsolescence: How Companies Encourage Hyperconsumption
Like many of their professors, students at the Sorbonne had become used to going to buy their ink cartridges from a small shop on a nearby street. With no manufacturer affiliations, it carried shelves...
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How Lebara connects expat communities to their countries
During the spring of 2010, Barbès, Belleville, La Chapelle (in Paris), Belsunce (in Marseilles) and other poor neighborhoods in France had significant makeovers: the windows of the cities’ worn-out...
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The shale gas lobby’s new strategy: Indoctrinate children with coloring books
Talisman Energy paints a picture of its magical world: The rocks and the sun are smiling, the American flag blows in the wind on top of an oil rig, and shale gas is a safe and clean source of energy....
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Shale gas: the new subprime market?
“The word in the world of independents is that the shale plays are just giant Ponzi schemes and the economics just do not work.” Surprisingly, this statement did not come from an environmental...
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Fracking waste shakes Arkansas
For a year, Faulkner County (roughly 741,000 acres) in Arkansas was shaken by thousands of mini-earthquakes caused by landfills deep underground composed of wastewater (also known as processed water)...
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SkyTruthiness: Ecological disasters from above
The NGO SkyTruth, launched in 2001, gathered hundreds of satellite images of disasters caused by land development, and industrial and agricultural activities (including oil spills, deforestation,...
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[Infographic] Washington and the Shale Gas Lobby: More Than Just Good Friends?
At the Department of Energy in Washington a new subcommittee on natural gas is making friends with shale gas, putting them on a collison course with a growing number of experts. In recent times...
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Shale Gas Industry Using PsyOps Tactics Tested in Iraq
Oil companies are making use of techniques and personnel from the psychological warfare unit of the US military, in their efforts to convince local populations drop their resistance to large-scale...
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Canada’s Creeping Suppression of Dissent
Overshadowed by student protests in Quebec against university reform, a proposed budget bill is raising concern among Canadian activists and environmental organisations. Tabled by the Conservative...
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The Petroleum Panacea of French Guiana
Drilling for oil off the coast of French Guiana will not lift the social stagnation afflicting this French overseas department. Permission, granted on June 22, to prospect for oil beneath the ocean...
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