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Introducing Empire Oil: A DeSmog UK Special Investigation
Introducing Empire Oil: A DeSmog UK Special Investigation The UK likes to brag about its credentials as a global climate leader. But a new DeSmog UK investigation reveals that beneath the green veneer lies some dirty business. At the centre of it all is the City of London and its junior stock exchange, the Alternative Investment […]
Supporting Organic Agriculture “is truly putting America first”
Supporting Organic Agriculture “is truly putting America first” Kate Mendenhall is the Director of the Organic Farmers Association (OFA), an organization sponsored by the Rodale Institute to build and support an organic farmer movement and national policy platform in the United States. Mendenhall has an extensive background in advocacy and is well-acquainted with the needs […]
Yellowstone geyser erupts for fifth time in months, prompting fears of an eruption
Yellowstone geyser erupts for fifth time in months, prompting fears of an eruption Does the USGS, NASA, and other government agencies know more than they are leading people to believe when it comes to the Yellowstone supervolcano? Jeff Gunn/Flickr (INTELLIHUB) — The largest active geyser in the world has erupted for the fifth time this […]
The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts
The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts The sustainability approach to harmonizing environment, equity, and economies has come under strong critique in recent years. It has been 30 years since the publication of Our Common Future and twenty-five years since the adoption of Agenda 21 at the Earth […]
WHO Prepares For “Worst Case” As Congo Ebola Outbreak Spreads
WHO Prepares For “Worst Case” As Congo Ebola Outbreak Spreads In the week since we first noted the new outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the number of cases has risen by 50%, and The World Health Organization has now said it is preparing for “the worst case scenario.” The WHO has […]
Ring Of Fire On ALERT After Philippines Earthquake: California Is WARNED
Ring Of Fire On ALERT After Philippines Earthquake: California Is WARNED After a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippines, the Ring of Fire was put on alert. After dozens of earthquakes rocked Hawaii this month, followed by a volcanic eruption, many fear the Ring of Fire has become much more active, which has prompted scientists […]
America’s ‘Cadillac Desert’: Is there a substitute for fresh water?
America’s ‘Cadillac Desert’: Is there a substitute for fresh water? Thirty years after Marc Reisner penned Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water his prophesy is being fulfilled. As the chalky rings which mark previous higher water levels around Colorado River reservoirs grow ever wider, Grist reports that major disputes are now afoot […]
Climate Crisis Clobbers Trump Denials
Climate Crisis Clobbers Trump Denials Harken! A Trump appointee agrees that climate change is not a hoax. Granted, that is unimaginable, but it is the real thing. An ongoing climate crisis in America’s Southwest brings this rare specimen into the limelight. The climate crisis star of the year is Brenda Burman, commissioner of The Bureau […]
Time To Choose
kienyke.com Time To Choose Will you be an agent of depletion or regeneration? There’s a vast revolution underway. And it’s time to pick sides. Your choice couldn’t be more critically important. Quite possibly, the entire fate of the human species hangs in the balance. It’s time to decide: Will you be an agent of depletion […]
What goes up must come down: It’s time for a carbon drawdown budget
What goes up must come down: It’s time for a carbon drawdown budget There is no carbon budget left for 1.5°C climate warming target, which means that to achieve this outcome every tonne of emissions must be matched by a tonne of drawdown of atmospheric carbon from now on. For that reason, carbon budgets and […]
Only ‘collective intelligence’ can help us stave off an uninhabitable planet
Only ‘collective intelligence’ can help us stave off an uninhabitable planet Humanity needs new tools to overcome the global crisis of collective insanity Published by INSURGE intelligence, a crowdfundedinvestigative journalism platform for people and planet. Support us to report where others fear to tread. The world faces an unprecedented convergence of crises. The ecological crisis, which […]
Modernity’s Long Twilight
Modernity’s Long Twilight Photo source wongaboo | CC BY 2.0 While Marx expected the industrial proletariat to spearhead the socialist revolution, it is now left to those who resist the burning of the last of the planet’s fossil fuel – which continues to engorge the hyper-capitalism of the early twenty-first century – to usher us […]
Humans didn’t exist the last time there was this much CO2 in the air
Humans didn’t exist the last time there was this much CO2 in the air The last time atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were this high, millions of years ago, the planet was very different. For one, humans didn’t exist. On Wednesday, scientists at the University of California in San Diego confirmedthat April’s monthly average atmospheric carbon […]
