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Heather Rogers discusses the incompatibilities between an economic system based on consumption and one based on environmental sustainability, and how green products have gotten trapped in the middle.

Argentine President Fernández traveled to China to address the soy oil controversy between the two countries. China has been blocking the commodity from entering the country in retaliation against anti-dumping measures that Argentina has applied against Chinese imports.

With military spending out of control and the war in Afghanistan now more protracted than Vietnam, the United States simply refuses to downscale its biggest liability.

For development to be integrated into a community, governments and NGOs need to find a way to educate and involve local people for the long term.

Two decades later, the havoc wreaked by the Exxon spill is still being felt by the habitat and wildlife, which makes envisioning the future of the Gulf of Mexico a scary thought.

The consequences of the BP oil spill are literally incalculable. While BP and government agencies argue over money and regulations, our ecosystem suffers the devastation.

The filmmaker discusses alternative ways to look at the Western economic model, taking a more holistic approach than the traditional growth- and GDP-oriented thinking.

The fact that Canada allows this type of extraction to occur, and that operations have no requirement for containment or capture of these chemicals, is criminal.

While the Gulf fills up with BP's massive oil spill, Canada plays host to another eco-disaster caused by the oil industry, Alberta's tar sands, which are likely responsible for a rise in cancer in the area.

It isn't some of the illegal aliens who broke the law; it is every one of them.

Behind the struggle to pass any meaningful legislation in the United States, from healthcare to finance reform, a stifling amount of corporate money is keeping Capitol Hill in gridlock.