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#1 -- Winter, 2002

Food & Health

• Organic Gold Rush
• Organic Myths
• Bottled waters claims to purity are bogus
• Natural Mosquito Repellent & Cleaner Air

Government

• Restricting local governments from enact living wage ordinance
• Rogue Agencies Gut State Banking Laws
• Who should make the rules?

Obituaries 2001

• Donella (Dana) Meadows
• John Alexander
• Mothers and Others
  

Sept. 11th

• Open Letter to Friends
• Is it possible for a more peaceful, sustainable world to emerge from the ashes?

Corporations

• Corporate Welfare: A tale of subsidized golf balls and chicken McNugget ads
• What's right with this picture?
  

Faith

• This world is not my home
• Unmasking the inevitable
• For God so loved the world: evangelicals and other faithful preach the green gospel
• The tyranny of time
• Reinventing Education: strategies for social transformation: interview with Matthew Fox
• Do you want to be healed?

 

Consumerism

• Dead Zone

 

Fascinating Facts

• Fuel Consumption
• Starving Children
• Car Pooling
• Short Takes
• From World Ark
• Yes Magazine
• Earth Island Journal
• PeaceWork

Military

• The U.S. military plays a large part in the deterioration of the environment and people's health here and abroad.
• How militarism = violence against women

 

Helpful Action

• Boycott Against Taco Bell
• Someone Else's Problem
• Turn the Tide and See the Change
• How Green is E-commerce?

 

Media

• Losing Signal
• Stop teaching our kids to kill
• Simplicity Marketing
• Turning the Page: informal impacts of the magazine industry
• Empires of the Senseless
• Schools should be commerce free zones
• Really Scary Ads

 

Environment

• Canaries and the coal mine
• Children at risk
• Place making
• The environmental issue from hell
• A Letter to George W. Bush
• Take a parking lot, put up a paradise
• Focus on Global Warming

 

Energy

• Shifting gears
• Country's largest buying groups sign contract
• Life after oil
• Vital Signs: the killing of U.S. alternative energy R&D
• The energy we overlook

 

Editorials

Correspondence

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#2 -- June, 2002

INTRODUCTION: Alternative Media

SURVEY

NOTES on web sites of a few members of the ALTERNATIVE MEDIA.

FEATURED MEDIA

• Adbusters: #40 / March-April, 2002
• Baptist Peace Fellowship: Legislation Introduced to Create a Department of Peace
• Business Ethics: The 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2002
• Center for a New American Dream
  • In Balance No. 39 (April 2002)
  • In Balance No. 40 (May 2002)
• E/The Environment Magazine
  • November-December 2001
  • January-February 2002
  • March-April 2002
  • May-June 2002
• Earth Island Journal
  • Winter 2001-2002 / Vol. 16, No. 4
  • Spring 2002 / Vol. 17, No. 1
  • Summer 2002 / Vol. 17, No. 2
• Earthlight: Issue 44 - Winter 2002: Youth Rising
• Mother Jones: May/June 2002: Unjust Rewards
• New Internationalist
  • Jan / Feb 2002: Another World Is Possible
  • March 2002: Speed-up
• The Other Side
  • Shall the Poor Be Always With Us?
  • The Cost of Entitlement
  • White Spaces (racism)
  • Nonviolence or Nonexistence
  • Our Sabbath Year
  • Enough is Enough by Walter Brueggemann
• Pax Christi
  • Worldwide hunger more a political problem, study finds
  • Sign-on to Endorse Kucinich Space Ban Bill
• Peaceworks Monitor
  • February-March 2002: Living in "Wartime"
  • November-December 2001: Focus on Terror, War and Peace
• Prism E-pistle
• Real Money
• Simple Living Oasis
• Sojourners
  • January-February, 2002
  • March-April, 2002
  • May-June, 2002
• SOJOMail
  • March-April, 2002
  • May-June, 2002
• Utne Reader: No. 111, May-June, 2002
• WorldWatch
  • Matters of Scale
  • January/February 2002
• Yes Magazine
  • Winter 2001/2002 / issue #20
  • Spring 2002 / issue #21

 

Correspondence

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