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Communities Pushing For Legal Rights To Regain Power Over Fracking Companies
Communities Pushing For Legal Rights To Regain Power Over Fracking Companies A Colorado group with concerns about the environmental impacts of fracking are pushing for a fundamental change to the state’s legal system to give communities greater power over corporations. Coloradans for Community Rights has set its sights on dismantling the legal system where state laws take […]
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part III
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part III [Part I] [Part II] Previously in this series of posts we outlined how inside the US special interests use political technologies to keep the population fooled. We also showed how these efforts will eventually fail, either through internal contradiction or because the parasites eventually end up killing the host. We […]
What Your New Liberal Majority Government Means for Climate, Environment, Science and Transparency
What Your New Liberal Majority Government Means for Climate, Environment, Science and Transparency Holy smokes. Polls are in and Canadians across the country are expressing surprise at the strong win for the federal Liberal party. While there’s much ink to be spilled over former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s reign, he’s likely locked in a bathroom now, so we’ll save […]
The race to fish: how fishing subsidies are emptying our oceans
The race to fish: how fishing subsidies are emptying our oceans Fish numbers are rapidly dwindling globally, and fishery subsidies are one of the key drivers behind this decline. In 2009, these subsidies totalled about US$35 billion, creating incentives for fishers around the world to increase their catch. But this short-term “race to fish” is jeopardising the […]
2% Solutions for the Planet
2% Solutions for the Planet Since we live in an era of big problems, we tend to spend our time thinking of big solutions. Thinking big, however, can have a paralyzing effect on taking action. In my new book Two Percent Solutions for the Planet, I take readers on a journey around the world where low-cost, easy-to-implement solutions are regenerating the […]
Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like
Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like “This is what democracy looks like” goes the popular protest chant. However, it’s not democracy that captures the imagination, provides answers, and drives today’s resistance movement. Something much more interesting has been taking place during protests, forums and intentional communities. In his book The New Left the anthropologist David […]
Scientists Warn ‘Godzilla’s Coming!’ – Millions Potentially Endangered By Coming Monster!
Scientists Warn ‘Godzilla’s Coming!’ – Millions Potentially Endangered By Coming Monster! Prepare! Deadly Rains Targeting Coast Loom! “Storms will reign,” LA Times reported on October 15 after the National Weather Service issued a warning that El Niño is getting stronger, raising odds of more deadly heavy rains and mudslides. (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-el-nino-forecast-20151015-story.html) Hours later Thursday, flash floods in […]
Climate changes can kick in below 2°C limit
Climate changes can kick in below 2°C limit Extensive melting of the snow on the Tibetan plateau could be a tipping point. Image: katorisi via Wikimedia Commons Sudden shifts in settled climates can occur long before global warming reaches the internationally-agreed safety level, European scientists say. LONDON, 18 October, 2015 – Climate change could arrive with startling […]
A Local Watchdog’s Checklist for Tackling Environmental Issues In Your Own Backyard
A Local Watchdog’s Checklist for Tackling Environmental Issues In Your Own Backyard The environment is large, complex and cross-jurisdictional. As activists, it’s easy to jump on board with the large national and international issues—like protecting the Clean Air Act or fighting climate change—that are pursued by myriad organizations. Those causes are worthy of support, but […]
Supreme Court rejects Rio Tinto’s efforts to dismiss Innu class action lawsuit
Supreme Court rejects Rio Tinto’s efforts to dismiss Innu class action lawsuit Innu claim mines have harmed environment and their way of life The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to end a class action lawsuit filed by two Innu communities against the Iron Ore Co. of Canada and the Quebec North Shore and Labrador […]
Cutting Emissions May Save Some U.S. Cities, but More Than 400 Appear ‘Already Lost,’ Study Finds
Cutting Emissions May Save Some U.S. Cities, but More Than 400 Appear ‘Already Lost,’ Study Finds An alarming new study has found that, no matter what we do to fight climate change, it is already too late for more than 400 U.S. cities — including Miami and New Orleans — which will be overcome by rising sea levels caused […]
Disaster waiting to happen’: ‘Dustbin ship’ with 25 tons of nuclear waste heading to Australia
Disaster waiting to happen’: ‘Dustbin ship’ with 25 tons of nuclear waste heading to Australia The general cargo ship BBC Shanghai © Tvabutzku1234 / Wikipedia A ship carrying 25 tons of nuclear waste has departed from France bound for Australia, despite environmentalists sounding the alarm. The critics say the ‘dustbin ship’ is not fit to […]
River Supplying Water To Alberta Oil Sands Operations At Risk From Drought
River Supplying Water To Alberta Oil Sands Operations At Risk From Drought A new study casts doubt on the long-term ability of the Athabasca River to supply the water Alberta’s oil sands industry relies on. Water is allocated to oil sands operations based on river flow data collected since the 1950s, but that doesn’t necessarily […]
Duality in climate science
Duality in climate science A commentary published in Nature Geoscience (online Oct. 2015) Brief Abstract: The commentary demonstrates the endemic bias prevalent amongst many of those developing emission scenarios to severely underplay the scale of the 2°C mitigation challenge. In several important respects the modelling community is self-censoring its research to conform to the dominant political and economic […]
Fukushima Radiation in Pacific Reaches West Coast
Fukushima Radiation in Pacific Reaches West Coast “[W]e should be carefully monitoring the oceans after what is certainly the largest accidental release of radioactive contaminants to the oceans in history,” marine chemist Ken Buesseler said last spring. Instead, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency halted its emergency radiation monitoring of Fukushima’s radioactive plume in May 2011, three months […]
