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Sweatshops Won’t Save Haiti
By Escape The Illusion on March 15, 2010 | No Comments
The United Nations will host a Haiti donors’ conference at the end of March. This conference will be quite different from last year’s event, of course, coming as it does on the heels of the worst earthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries. An agenda has already begun to take shape: It&#... -
Poor ObamaBy Escape The Illusion on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
What a mess he inherited. The Great Recession, Iraq, Afghanistan. No other U.S. president has ever faced such a mess. And Obama has to deal with this mess with fewer than 60% of the seats in both houses of Congress being held by his own party. Even knowing how terrible this inherited situation would... -
Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, but Biofuel DoesBy Escape The Illusion on March 2, 2010 | 3 Comments
The poplar tree has entered the crowded field of sustainable biofuel crops, and now it seems that China, Israel and the U.S. are racing to tap into its potential. Poplars have a couple of big advantages over conventional biofuel crops, especially food crops like soy and corn. For one thing, raisin... -
Who Really Gets Hurt When GOP’s Bunning Blocks ...By Escape The Illusion on March 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Department of Transportation furloughed nearly 2,000 employees without pay Monday as the government began to feel the impact of Republican Sen. Jim Bunning’s one-man blockage of legislation that would keep a host of federal programs operating. Bunning’s “hold” also affec... -
Haiti Beyond the CleanupBy Escape The Illusion on February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Haiti experts are warning that unless the international community comes up with new, more imaginative and more inclusive approaches to reconstruction and development in the earthquake-ravaged nation, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country can look forward to more of the same. They see the su... -
Shrimp’s Dirty SecretsBy Escape The Illusion on January 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
Why America’s Favorite Seafood Is a Health and Environmental Nightmare.The environmental impact of shrimp can be horrific. But most Americans don’t know where their shrimp comes from or what’s in it. Americans love their shrimp. It’s the most popular seafood in the country, ... -
A Beat for PeaceBy Escape The Illusion on January 21, 2010 | No Comments
If you like a good beat, you’ll love this. Drummers across the world have come together to engage in a ‘virtual session’, and the result – seen in this short film – is ear-catching and inspiring. The aim of the film, called ‘A Beat for Peace’, is to highligh... -
Earth’s Oceans: Our Largest Plastic LandfillsBy Escape The Illusion on January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Travel through any city, or inhabited rural area, in just about any country. There’s one thing, above all, that you’ll be sure to find: garbage. We are an incredibly untidy species. Garbage disposal is a problem everywhere in our Insta-Life society. There are things we simply can’t throw away ... -
New Solar Pond Distillation System DevisedBy Escape The Illusion on January 8, 2010 | No Comments
Ecosystems of terminus lakes around the world could benefit from a new system being developed at the University of Nevada, Reno to desalinate water using a specialized low-cost solar pond and patented membrane distillation system powered by renewable energy. “These lakes — hundreds world... -
One Day We’ll All Be TerroristsBy Escape The Illusion on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo Bay, but also at the federal...
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