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The Railway Track Market of Samut Songkhram
Every day in the Thai province of Samut Songkhram, about 70 km southwest of Bangkok, a unique market is held whose vendors need feet as quick as their minds. Why? Because much of the market is located directly on a set of operational railway tracks. Eight times daily, a train runs through without care for stopping, sending vendors and visitors to action stations before business as usual resumes.
Continue reading...Climate Warriors versus Market Fundamentalists
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Brian Gordon is a Canadian Green Party member and candidate trained by Al Gore to present An Inconvenient Truth. I’ll save you the trouble of reading further if you believe in the infallibility of markets and have dangerously high blood pressure: I’m on the side of moving very [...]
Continue reading...The Climate Crisis is a Political Crisis
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
The dinosaurs were wiped out by the after effects of a meteorite striking the Earth. We can see our meteorite coming. So why are things changing so slowly? All the solutions exist.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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