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  • Why Wendell Matters

    by Mark Engler August 5, 2004
    by Mark Engler August 5, 2004

    Seventy years old this week, the veteran sage of sustainable agriculture has made a life of stewardship, “staying home,” and turning off the computer.

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  • The Gulf at the Gas Station

    by Mark Engler August 12, 2010
    by Mark Engler August 12, 2010

    Why the market fails in calculating the true cost of our dependence on oil.

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  • Climate Disobedience

    by Mark Engler August 11, 2009
    by Mark Engler August 11, 2009

    Deciding the time has come for direct action to stop global warming.

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  • Farming the Everglades

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2003
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2003

    Florida sugar growers milk taxpayers, farm workers, and endangered wetlands.

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  • The Winter of the Climate Denier

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2014

    The North American Climate-Change Denier is an invasive species that poses serious risk to other plant and animal life on the planet.

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  • Climate of Change: An “Inside-Outside” Strategy Against Global Warming?

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler July 22, 2013
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler July 22, 2013

    If politicians in Washington, DC refuse to talk about our warming planet, how do we shift the climate of national debate?

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  • Provoking an American Climate Crisis

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2013

    The signs tell us that a climate crisis has arrived in the natural world. The question is: When will this translate into a crisis in the political world?

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  • The Real “Farmer” Story: So God Made High-Fructose Corn Syrup

    by Mark Engler February 11, 2013
    by Mark Engler February 11, 2013

    The Dodge Superbowl ad celebrates a type of farming that corporate agribusiness has all but obliterated in the past fifty years.

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  • Are Humans Doomed to Destroy Themselves?

    by Mark Engler July 20, 2011
    by Mark Engler July 20, 2011

    A review of Tim Flannery’s Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet.

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  • In Review: Ted Nace’s Climate Hope

    by Mark Engler September 29, 2010
    by Mark Engler September 29, 2010

    On the front lines in the fight against coal.

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The Author

Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia, an editorial board member at Dissent, and co-director of the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center. His latest book, written with Paul Engler, is This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-first Century (Nation Books). Mark’s full bio is available here.

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Democracy Uprising
  • About
    • About Mark Engler
    • About Democracy Uprising
  • Books
    • This Is An Uprising
    • How To Rule the World
  • Topics
  • Translations
  • Appearances
  • Archive
    • 2023-2025
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
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