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Ecology Hall of Fame: Roosevelt
Presidency. What the 1920's would have been like with Roosevelt in the White House is an interesting speculation. The laissez faire capitalism of the Republicans which helped lay the groundwork for the Great Depression was the opposite of Roosevelt's own view of proper public policy. Whatever the future might have been with another term in office, ...
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Robert Gilman - Continental Themes
Protestant religions specifically linked these two, that did not eliminate the conflict and the tension. Is "freedom" meant to be primarily economic laissez-faire, or is it more closely associated with freedom of belief, speech, and lifestyle? Is it freedom for the strong to be ...
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Paul Hawken - The Next Reformation
Paul: The shift we're seeing is incremental and slow, which is what you would expect if it's to be long-lasting. What is being focused on, quite rightly and understandably, is the strengthening of a laissez-faire corporate socialism in Congress, and second, widespread attacks on the environmental movement and ethos. Those two trends would seem to suggest that ...
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China Olympics 2008 dumping illegal unsustainable timber USA furniture EU plywood finance subsidies import export Beijing Fujian CO2 Carbon Offset plantations
The sectors that show most potential for increased consumption of timber within China are those in which, given laissez-faire stewardship by the government, end-users can exert choice - notably the fitting-out of residential and commercial buildings (particularly those constructed with the 2008 Olympic Games in mind). ...
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Costa Rica - Caught between a World War(1939) and a civil war(1948) - by INFO Costa Rica
This ideal failed in part because of the social ... halt after one of these strikes by banana workers. The Costa Rican government discarded its previous laissez-faire strategy and began exerting increased control in several aspects. In 1933 it founded the ...
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Watery Dreams: Redressing an "Urban Lake"
Until a governor appears who knows the difference between urban parks and state forests--the difference between a finely-tuned, urban resource and a laissez-faire state forest valued for its ecological function, stewardship will lag. The historic gifts of parkmaking and park-protecting ...
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Rail Renaissance: Transit Is On Track in America's Sun Belt Cities
Unlike the Portland, Oregon urban model with its zoning, growth boundaries and inducements for transit-oriented-development or the nitty-gritty urban cities already built around rail, a boom economy and a laissez-faire mentality could undercut the emerging fleets of light rail. Will light rail fly? Will the new systems work? Will ...
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League for the Hard of Hearing > Education, Advocacy & Outreach
The claim of freedom from government interference seems to overlook the very nature and development of the concept of freedom in Western cultures. Even at the height of laissez-faire attitudes in the eighteenth century, philosopher John Stuart Mill, one of the greatest defenders of the freedoms of individuals, ...
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A Minister Explains
World's true owner, God himself. By now you should perceive that the Christian position on environmental responsibility lies between the extreme positions of the preservationists (non-use school) and the laissez-faire industrialist schools (no barriers to use school). Contrary to much popular understanding, the Scripture does not teach that mankind can do as he wishes with the world. I would agree ...
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Instead of becoming more transparent and accountable, St. Louis County has since adopted low DNR standards in its laissez-faire diversion of gas-tax revenue for motorized recreation. MRR will highlight St. Louis County in our work at the legislature in 2008. We have invited St. Louis County to be positive partner leading the way, not ...
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