Therefore, I am asking that on this Earth Day, we, individually and collectively as a nation, take time to discern our role on this planet and step to the forefront of the efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to levels that can sustain life on the only Earth we have.                             

Free traders are so mesmerized by their ideology of trade liberalization they fail to recognize that financial trade liberalization as enshrined in the WTO and bilateral/regional Free Trade agreements (FTAs) has fostered the very financial and economic meltdown we are currently experiencing.

A recent report concludes simply and bleakly: “The sensitivity of the Chesapeake Bay to climate suggests that the Bay’s functioning by the end of this century will differ significantly from that observed during the last century.”

“What happened to the Food Crisis?” It’s a question that many of us working on global social justice have been asking ourselves since the Wall Street Bailout.

Of all the looming ecological crises, from climate change to loss of biodiversity to air pollution, perhaps this one, our disconnectedness from Creation, is both the most basic and the most dangerous.

The sense of entitlement we are witnessing among the elite is something very different.  It does not arise from need but from an overweening habit of conspicuous consumption.

Student Loans!  This is the topic I've been waiting to have addressed in the debates surrounding this year's elections.