Córdoba, Argentina — By late last Friday afternoon in Argentina’s second largest city, the bi-annual summit of Mercosur had officially wrapped. But on a dusty rugby field at a nearby university, the changing face of this South American economic alliance was on full display. “North American imperialism is endangering the welfare of the human species […]
Nelson Harvey
Nelson Harvey was a Prospect intern. He is now working as a journalist in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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The Real Black Gold
The ever growing buzz over alternative energy sources received a major boost last January, when President Bush confessed to America’s oil addiction in his State of the Union Address. But since then, amidst all the speculation about a cleaner, greener tomorrow, one thing has been notably absent: an honest assessment of where we are now, […]
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Not Just For Hippies
In A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet’s Future, Roger Gottlieb documents an important piece of the broadening environmental movement: the religious community. In recent years, support for environmental causes in the religious circles has grown considerably, and today it is limited by neither geography nor religious affiliation. Through such groups as the National […]
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FEELING GREEN. The…
FEELING GREEN. The Center for American Progress partnered with The American Prospect this morning to host a discussion on forming and implementing policies for a post-petroleum society. The event was an offshoot of a recent Prospect special report that featured articles on several facets of the issue, from environmental health to farm subsidies to the […]