Our Last Chance to Save Humanity?
September 1, 2010
John W. Farley (johnwfarley [at] yahoo.com) is a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he has won several awards for… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Ecology
El Salvador: Mining the Resistance
June 1, 2010
Gabriel Zucker (gabriel.zucker [at] yale.edu) is an undergraduate at Yale University, where he is double majoring in ethics, politics, and economics (EP&E) and music, and is co-director of the Yale… READ MORE
Time to Pay the Piper
June 1, 2010
Ariel Salleh, ed., Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology (New York: Pluto Press, 2009), 324 pages, $34.00, paperback. Rebecca Clausen ([email protected]) teaches sociology and environmental studies at Fort… READ MORE
What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism
March 1, 2010
Fred Magdoff ([email protected]) is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont and adjunct professor of crop and soil science at Cornell University. He is the… READ MORE
Why Programs Fail
March 1, 2010
Richard Levins ([email protected]) is a third generation subversive, an ex-farmer, ecologist, and veteran of the Puerto Rican independence movement, Science for the People, anti-war, Marxist education, and other good causes…. READ MORE
Why Ecological Revolution?
January 1, 2010
Correction (February 3, 2010)—Passage on Himalayan glaciers in paragraph 5 of article originally published January 2010. This article was written for presentation at the Workshop on Marxist Theory and Practice… READ MORE
Farmers, Mao, and Discontent in China: From the Great Leap Forward to the Present
December 1, 2009
Dongping Han ([email protected]) is professor of history and political science at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. His publications include several journal articles and The Unknown Cultural Revolution (Garland Publishing,… READ MORE
Gouldiana Rising
October 1, 2009
Warren D. Allmon, Patricia H. Kelley, and Robert M. Ross, eds., Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 400 pages, $34.95, hardcover…. READ MORE
The Globalization of Agribusiness and Developing World Food Systems
September 1, 2009
John Wilkinson is associate professor in the Graduate Center for Development, Agriculture and Society, Rural Federal University, Rio de Janeiro. He is co-author of From Farming to Biotechnology (1987) and… READ MORE
An Overview of the Food and Agriculture Crisis
July 1, 2009
Fred Magdoff, professor emeritus at the University of Vermont and adjunct professor at Cornell University, has published numerous articles and books on soil fertility and management and ecological approaches to… READ MORE