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Leading Cause of Climate Change is Animal Agriculture, not Fossil Fuels
Leading Cause of Climate Change is Animal Agriculture, not Fossil Fuels There is some kind of “cowspiracy” going on… Animal agriculture is the leading cause of climate change, but no one seems to want to address it. The documentary Cowspiracy, available on Netflix and through the film’s website, etc., does, and is worth a watch, particularly for […]
Oil-by-Rail Giant BNSF Threatens Shutdown Over Safety
Oil-by-Rail Giant BNSF Threatens Shutdown Over Safety In June of 2014, a representative of oil-by-rail giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) attended a meeting with regulators where the American Association of Railroads (AAR) lobbied against any speed limits for oil trains. One of the slides from that presentation – titled “Far Reaching Economic Impacts” (image below) […]
Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive
Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive California Spotted Owl. Photo: USFS. When it comes to wildfire, the U.S. Forest Service has it all wrong. In its just-released plan to chop down trees in nearly 17,000 acres hit by last year’s King fire in the Eldorado National Forest – including logging in 28 occupied […]
The Exxons of agriculture
The Exxons of agriculture Credit: Pawel Kuczynski (http://www.pawelkuczynski.com). Read the media release about this report here It goes without saying that oil and coal companies should not have a seat at the policy table for decisions on climate change. Their profits depend on business-as-usual and they’ll do everything in their power to undermine meaningful […]
The World’s Never Seen Anything Like This
The World’s Never Seen Anything Like This The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant No. 2 nuclear reactor fuel is missing from the core containment vessel. (Source: Up to 100% of No. 2 Reactor Fuel May Have Melted, NHK World News, Sept. 25, 2015.) Where did it go? Nobody knows. Not only that but the “learning […]
Canadians piling up more garbage than ever before as disposables rule
Canadians piling up more garbage than ever before as disposables rule There’s a high price to pay for our love affair with products of convenience We like to think we’re behaving like model citizens, hauling our recycling to the curb and composting our banana peels. But the sad truth is, Canadians are piling up more household garbage […]
North Carolina Settles With Duke Energy Over Coal Ash Groundwater Contamination, Ratepayers May Shoulder Costs
North Carolina Settles With Duke Energy Over Coal Ash Groundwater Contamination, Ratepayers May Shoulder Costs This is a guest post by Rhiannon Fionn, an independent investigative journalist and filmmaker in post-production on the documentary film “Coal Ash Chronicles.” North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality today announced a settlement agreement with Duke Energy, ending a lawsuit over the department’s […]
The Worst Nuclear Disaster in US History That You’ve Never Heard About
The Worst Nuclear Disaster in US History That You’ve Never Heard About The United States government deliberately hid “the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history,” according to experts and an in-depth investigation by NBC4 Southern California. Whistleblowers have also come forward to expose the little-known catastrophe, which occurred north of Los Angeles in 1959 and leaked over 300 times […]
Fukushima Reactor No.2 May Have Suffered Total Meltdown
Fukushima Reactor No.2 May Have Suffered Total Meltdown To the extent the memory of Fukushima had faded over the last several years, the “fallout” (no pun intended) from the nuclear-like blast that tore through an industrial complex at the Chinese port of Tianjin last month served to remind the world of how far-reaching and unpredictable […]
Food Sovereignty
Food Sovereignty ‘Food sovereignty’ is fast becoming a lost concept; the right to have the knowledge and resources to grow our own food is an essential right. If we don’t have access to nutrient dense organic food, then where do we get the essential energy to heal our body, mind and spirit certainly not from […]
Presuming to Care about the Earth
Presuming to Care about the Earth Photo: Mihnea Stanciu/Flickr CC. There are times that I find myself wandering pensively in the woods, asking aloud, “so how should I presume?” I just read about the land sinking — up to thirteen inches a year in some places — in the Central Valley of California. I also just read about there being […]
Tim Flannery: ‘The Next Decade Is Going to Be Really Tough’
Tim Flannery: ‘The Next Decade Is Going to Be Really Tough’ A brutally honest conversation with the world-leading climate thinker, who speaks in Vancouver Oct. 14. Tim Flannery didn’t become one of the world’s most influential climate thinkers by sugar-coating the truth. “If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century,” […]
Shell ends exploration in Arctic near Alaska ‘for the foreseeable future’
Shell ends exploration in Arctic near Alaska ‘for the foreseeable future’ Shell spent upward of $7 billion US on offshore development in Chukchi, Beaufort seas Royal Dutch Shell will cease exploration in Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast following disappointing results from an exploratory well it just completed. Shell found indications of oil and gas in […]
