Pandora's bottle: How uncapping your water opens the floodgates to privatization

Article Abstract:

Branded water has set the stage for privatization of public drinking supplies. People pay as much as 10,000 times what they pay for tap water which undermines their confidence in public water utilities, while the most popular brands of water that are supplied are nothing more than tap water drawn from municipal supplies, filtered and sold at a huge profit.

Water Supply and Irrigation Systems, Management dynamics, Bottled and canned soft drinks, Water supply, Water Utilities, Management, Economic aspects, Privatization, Privatization (Business), Company business management, Bottled water industry

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The personal goes political

Article Abstract:

The holistic centers, like Omega Institute at Rhinebeck, New York and Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, aim not only at personal growth but also at changing the entire world. Their educational missions offer courses on teaching the spiritually inclined people to be more engaged in political and social-change work.

Evaluation, Spiritual healing

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Online and the into the streets

Article Abstract:

Online activism is becoming popular; however, grassroots groups need to move people away from their computer monitors and back into the real world. The article discusses the efforts of MoveOn.Org (San Franisco).

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Internet, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Political issue, Activism, Political protest

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