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...because not all the pressure for change is coming from the weak and marginalized. China's urban middle class is also pushing for greater freedom. Their growing feeling of empowerment is contagious. Last year's protests by thousands of citizens in the coastal city of Xiamen against plans to build a billion-dollar chemical factory ultimately forced the cancellation of the project - and sparked subsequent copycat demonstrations over proposed megaprojects in Shanghai and Chengdu. "The pressure is building in the pressure cooker and there's no current avenue for it to be released," says Nicholas Bequelin, China researcher...
...communist misrule - inspired him to do something to stem the tide of climate change. He realized - given his fundamental belief in the power of live music to bring people together - that a radio show was the answer. On Earth Day 1991 Etown broadcast its first show. "We wanted to build a community through music," he says. "The music was always the hook to bring people...
...every school can afford to build sustainable eateries from scratch, and not every school can even get rid of trays. Many colleges run up against common infrastructural and cultural barriers - such as cafeteria washroom rollers that can't easily accommodate plates that aren't on trays, or campus residents who just can't get on board with a tray-free lunch. At some schools, like Middlebury in Vermont, trays were simply removed, and administrators let the grumbling subside. But at most other colleges, the movement has been grounded in community discussion on sustainability concepts - so students and faculty...
...benefited the most from China's booming economy, in the swelling urban middle class, are also increasingly pushing the authorities to grant them more rights and freedoms. It's a contagious process. Last year's protests by thousands of citizens in the coastal city of Xiamen against plans to build a billion-dollar chemical factory ultimately forced the cancellation of the project. And the protests directly sparked copycat demonstrations against planned mega-projects in Shanghai as well as Chengdu in Sichuan province, which occurred just a few days before the earthquake devastated the region in May. "Chinese are trying...
...Illinois senator. By the time Nugen arrived in Denver the convention was already severely behind schedule - a symptom of a primary season no one expected to last until June - and was more than $10 million underfunded. Soon after, word came down that he would not only need to build the stage and venue at the Pepsi Center but he'd need to build a second stage - without adding any additional staff - at Invesco Field so Obama could deliver his acceptance speech before a crowd of 71,000. "Everyone said, 'Look we're going to do this, we think...