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Ohio Court Overturns Law Preventing Cities From Voting on Anti-Fracking Measures
Ohio Court Overturns Law Preventing Cities From Voting on Anti-Fracking Measures In a slight break with previous state policies that have encouraged fracking activity and new pipelines, the Ohio Supreme Court recently struck down a controversial provision restricting citizen efforts to vote locally on these and other issues through the ballot initiative process. Getting Out (of) […]
Meet Monsanto’s Other Herbicide Problem…
Meet Monsanto’s Other Herbicide Problem… http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-01/meet-monsantos-other-herbicide-problemEarlier this year we wrote about a series of court documents that were unsealed and seemingly revealed a startling effort on the part of both Monsanto and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to work in concert to kill and/or discredit independent, albeit inconvenient, cancer research conducted by the World Health […]
Officials Warn: Airborne Black Death Epidemic Could ‘Explode’
Officials Warn: Airborne Black Death Epidemic Could ‘Explode’ The bubonic plague outbreak that is taking Madagascar to its knees will more than likely last another six months. But the worst news is that the epidemic could explode anytime unleashing the sickness on the globe. At least 128 people have been killed and more than 1,300 […]
The Cruel, Topsy-Turvy Economics of Collapse
The Cruel, Topsy-Turvy Economics of Collapse Contrary to common sense, we could experience booming GDP and stock market valuations all the way to society’s imminent collapse. As we reel from one natural disaster after another—hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, wildfires in California—climate scientists explain how they’re not really “natural” at all. They’re the anticipated consequence of a breakdown […]
Europe Fears ‘The Big One’ After 140 Earthquakes Strike The French Alps In 40 Days
Europe Fears ‘The Big One’ After 140 Earthquakes Strike The French Alps In 40 Days In recent weeks, the locals living in the Maurienne part of Savoie in the French Alps have been getting used to being shaken awake at night. The region has been rocked by 140 earthquakes in a mere 40 days sparking […]
Pesticides Pollution
PESTICIDES POLLUTION Pesticides are chemicals that are used to kill or control pests. This includes herbicides that are used for getting rid of weeds, insecticides used to treat fungicides, nematocides used to control nematodes as well as rodenticides used to treat vertebrate poisoning. WHY PESTICIDES CAN BE HARMFUL Pesticides contain ingredients such as oxygen, chlorine, […]
After Wildfires, Californians Warned: ‘You Will See Rapid Flooding, People TRAPPED’
After Wildfires, Californians Warned: ‘You Will See Rapid Flooding, People TRAPPED’ Maxwell, California flooded in 2017 Experts are warning that California’s state capital could be the next hot spot to experience massive flooding on catastrophe levels. Officials are admitting that one particular Sacramento neighborhood is in an area that never should have been settled, to begin […]
Museletter #305: Puerto Rico is our Future
Museletter #305: Puerto Rico is our Future Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 93KB) My hometown of Santa Rosa, California, and surrounding communities were decimated by wildfires during the week of October 9, with entire neighborhoods completely erased. If you want a sense of how bad the fires were, watch this 11-minute video clip put […]
Alberta Approves Suncor Tailings Plan Despite Reliance on ‘Unproven Technology’
Alberta Approves Suncor Tailings Plan Despite Reliance on ‘Unproven Technology’ The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has approved a tailings management plan from oilsands giant Suncor, despite the plan relying on “newly patented, unproven technology” that will require decades of monitoring. Wednesday’s decision came only six months after the AER rejected Suncor’s proposed plan for the same […]
Minority Communities Suffer from Storms as GOP and Trump Admin Promote Oil and Gas
Minority Communities Suffer from Storms as GOP and Trump Admin Promote Oil and Gas While victims in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico are still reeling from the devastation of three hurricanes worsened by a warming climate, the Trump administration and GOP senators in the Gulf continued to push fossil fuel extraction. On October 18, two senators […]
Do You Really Think Politicians Can Stop Climate Change?
Do You Really Think Politicians Can Stop Climate Change? COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; It appears that politicians are attributing any change in the climate to human activity. They have simply either gone mad or just insane, seriously distorting everything to gain more power and taxes. Now Christine Lagarde said: “As I’ve said before if we don’t do anything […]
Global Climate Change & Its Link to Soil Organisms
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE & ITS LINK TO SOIL ORGANISMS When people think of the consequences of global warming, most jump to the melting ice caps and death of beloved polar bears. We know that as our Earth undergoes climate change, it’s adversely affecting the ecological balance in complex ways. For the first time, however, a […]
California Wildfires Inflict More Devastation
California Wildfires Inflict More Devastation Among recent natural disasters striking the U.S. are devastating wildfires that torched California’s wine country, destroyed thousands of homes and killed more than 40 people, report Dennis J Bernstein and Miguel Gavilan Molina. The Tubbs neighborhood in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, one of the hardest hit by the recent fires […]
100% renewables: ‘wishful thinking’ or an imperative goal?
100% renewables: ‘wishful thinking’ or an imperative goal? In this essay, I was provoked to respond to Stan Cox’s widely-shared article “100 Percent Wishful Thinking: The Green-Energy Cornucopia”, in which he argues that a transition to 100% renewable energy is neither technically feasible, nor desirable. It is my contention, in contrast, that a 100 percent […]
