Are Republicans coming around to the idea of a public health care plan? Maine's moderate GOP Senator Olympia Snowe recently signaled her support.

From the Exception Magazine, an editorial by Ali Vander Zanden , a healthcare organizer at the Maine People's Alliance:

Thanks are due...

For all of the "Support Our Troops" rhetoric, we still need a national conversation about how we treat American troops once they return to civilian life.

I thought this piece by Cole England, a Maine native and former Specialist in the US Army, would be of interest to readers...

This story was originally published in The Exception, Maine's premier online news organization.

Given the fundraising success of the Obama campaign and the reach of the liberal blogoshere, many people assume progressives have the advantage when it comes to harnessing new media tools for political organizing.

But there is...

This story originally appeared in the Exception Magazine, Maine's premier online news organization.

Throughout the U.S. presidential campaign, the Democratic candidates tried to top each other with promises of green jobs that would revitalize broken economies in the heartland and get America off of foreign oil. Because green...

This article also appeared in the Exception.

Apple's Board of Directors, which counts Al Gore as a member, has released a proxy statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission opposing a shareholder proposal which would require the full disclosure of Apple's sustainability strategy and carbon footprint.

The shareholder proposal...

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George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States of America, has few accomplishments which will be viewed positively by historians. The President made the choice to invade both Iraq and Afghanistan and created an open-ended "War on Terror" after...

A version of this article originally appeared in the Exception magazine and is republished with permission.

Bailout? Rescue Package? Corporate Welfare? How are we to know which terms used by the media are true...

Shabina Riaz is a Parliamentarian in Pakistan's Provincial Assembly of the Punjab. Mrs. Riaz is a member of the majority Pakistan People's Party and just got elected as the Chairperson of Punjab's standing committee on "Women Development, Social Welfare, and Bait-ul-Maal".

In an...

A recent corporate social responsibility (CSR) ranking in Fortune magazine reveals one of the many inherent flaws in this burgeoning practice. Fortune, along with the CSR consulting firms AccountAbility, Csrnetwork and Asset4, came to the conclusion that BP and Royal Dutch Shell...

Many Americans are going to participate in this year's presidential election for the first time. Now is our chance to help decide which direction our country should take and whether our economy will rebound stronger and greener than ever.

Voting for the top of the ticket is obviously important...

When software giant Microsoft characterizes its environmental efforts as "still in the first inning," as its new Chief Environmental Strategist, Rob Bernard recently did, you know that the information technology industry (IT) has a long way to go towards becoming more sustainable.

Just think about the environmental cost...

Perhaps no U.S. industry has taken sustainability as seriously as the hospitality sector. And I don't just mean those towel-reuse programs.

Hotels are serious about sustainability because their guests are demanding it. 75 percent of hotel visitors want green programs, according to the JD Powers Hotel Guest Satisfaction Survey....