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...Timothy W. Luke Abstract The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) prides itself on its mission and legacy, namely, “50 years of forging solutions that help people and nature prosper.” Has this solutionist approach to struggles along the frontiers of what Habermas identified as “system” to defend “life...

... is going to get anywhere near the funding increases that will go to the military over the next decade.55 49 Prins, Ope cit. 50 "Arms Race in Space? U.S. Airforce Quietly Focuses on Space Control," Defense Monitor XXXII:4 (2003), p. 6. 51 George W. Bush, "State of the Union," January 20, 2004. 52 Steven M...

... with defense of environmental security. Most professional officers are probably oblivious to the possibility that except under carefully delimited circumstances, armed forces themselves constitute one of the foremost threats to environmental security. Within the South, greater attention is given here...

... have usually been satisfied that the military upheld its obligations under the law. Congress has gradually tightened up these loopholes and in 1993, President Clinton created the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security to assist in this effort. In 1997, a symbolic...

... /09/3-paradigm-shifts-in-corporatesustainability-to-esg/. 9NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 125 value creation" as part of a "holistic approach to climate change," and more crucially, to secure the predicted "$20 trillion in assets [that] will flow into sustainable funds and strategies over the next two decades4...

... Wildlife Fund, and the Smithsonian Institution. The author makes numerous references to his extensive travels as he writes about his personal experiences with the plight of peoples and nations suffering under the most degraded conditions. The present volume is the tenth in a popular series of books...

... that we work on because it's the biggest funding program, but it's also the gold standard of response for people who need food assistance. Playing defense, of course, comes at a cost, and is also the best example of how tunnel vision takes over. Reiterating the full range of challenges that the anti...

...); exponential growth in the size, powers, autonomy, and compensation of technocratic administrative layers; the direction of funding to privatized construction contracts; the growth of consumer culture pedagogies; universities of "excellence" where learning outcomes are modeled according to corporate...

..., and even corporations nimble and well-funded enough to challenge the world as it is. At least so goes the promise of a world made in Silicon Valley's image. The authors point out that this explosion in digital entrepreneurship was made possible by public defense funding to the technology companies...

... of instrumental value through such concepts as 'ecosystem services' and an economistic focus on the 'efficient allocation' of conservation funds, developments that he laments. Chapter two continues in a similar vein, reading Wilson's global biodiversity census initiative through a Foucaultian lens as an extension...

... congressional campaign, supplemented by reinforcing examples from Democratic primary contests around the country, reveals the mutually reinforcing power of party organizations' perceptions about candidates' electability and fund raising potential. These are the twin elements that determine both party...

... to the fight against environmentally-destructive strip mining.120 In marked contrast to the union's present day defense of MTR,121 throughout most of the 1970s Arnold Miller supported West Virginia Senator Ken Hechler's plan to gradually phase out surface mining and provide retraining, cash allowances...

... of the International Monetary Fund has termed the "Great Recession."l We may now speak of a post-globalist era, where the dominant ideology of globalisation, "market globalism/" has been forced into abeyance under the weight of its own contradictions.2 As in any ideological interregnum, this is a time of great...

..., it is easy to see all the ways Trump's presidency has demonstrated these features. Trump and the Republican Party frequently use state funds to support large corporations and wealthy businesspersons. Political commentators characterize these actions as a grifter economy; there are dozens of examples of Trump...

... contradictory stance is his wish that foundations gave more to the environmental justice movement, although his book, Losing Ground, demonstrated the deradicalizing effects of such funding. Dowie ends his book with a discussion of visionaries, those he believes illustrate the best in philanthropy, including...

... with the buffetings of drought, deforestation and environmental destruction. By the late 1980s all of this was coming to the point of crisis. Popular movements protesting displacement (for irrigation projects, defense testing sites, industrial or mining projects) or demanding measures to eradicate drought began...

... billion annually that they have already committed (although not yet realized). Rational management of these funds would have to be centrally organized, with stronger institutions of international governance. Fair and effective implementation of mitigation, adaptation, and migrant support programs...

... poll, fifty-eight percent of Republicans believe that colleges and universities have a negative effect on the way things are going on this country in comparison to nineteen percent of Democrats-it is essential that faculty mobilize against ongoing funding cuts to public IHE and in support of the value...

..., and significantly increase public support for mass transit. Popular, democratically-elected representatives would direct the social security system, which in turn controls medical and pension insurance funds. The implementation of these and other items of the Common Program would radically transform the government...

... of its public funds further crippled the party and highlighted the need for an overhaul of the entire organization. The failure of the West German Greens to cross over the 5% threshold in the post-reunification elections of December 1990 was a particularly painful blow to the party's development...