Friends of the Earth’s blog is a staff-run blog that provides policy analysis, insight and commentary about the environment and other progressive issues, advances our campaigns, and builds momentum for a healthy and just world.
Dec. 21, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein
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/ Tags: Climate change, Climate finance, Earth budget, Karen orenstein, Tax, Wall street
Robin Hood, a champion of ordinary people, made a stop in Washington, D.C. this week -- to put his hat in the ring to replace outgoing U.S. Treasury Sectary Tim Geithner, a champion of Wall Street. Mr. Hood is running on a platform of taxing Wall ...
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Dec. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Erich Pica
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Economics for the Earth
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Call it the fiscal cliff, the fiscal slope or an “austerity crisis,” but no matter the nomenclature, a battle is underway over the role of government in the U.S.: Should we take care of our own or should people be left to fend for them...
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Nov. 29, 2011 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber
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Now that the Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, better known as the super committee, has officially announced that they are not going to reach a deal we can let out a sigh of relief. That’s because, as Paul Krugman wrote, failure is good...
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Jun. 15, 2011 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein
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This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany.
By Asad Rehman, Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland
June 1...
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Feb. 22, 2011 / Posted by: Michelle Chan
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Economics for the Earth
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Just imagine. Nearly $1.5 trillion changes hands on international currency exchange markets each day, almost all of it through untaxed transactions made by wealthy speculators.
What if we put even a tiny fraction of that money to good use?
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