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The Trouble With Tailings: Toxic Waste ‘Time Bombs’ Loom Large Over Alaska’s Salmon Rivers
The Trouble With Tailings: Toxic Waste ‘Time Bombs’ Loom Large Over Alaska’s Salmon Rivers There are a few unarguable truths about mine tailings, the pulverized rock, water and sludge left over from mineral extraction — mining is a messy business, the leftovers have to be dealt with forever and it’s impossible to guarantee against another […]
Resilience in the face of Climate Change
Resilience in the face of Climate Change Resilience is a common principal of permaculture, says Dave Boehnlein, co-author of the book Practical Permaculture. In this Mother Earth News interview, Boehnlein stresses the importance of incorporating redundancy, such as with planning access to potable water. “If the water stops coming from a municipal system, then what’s […]
Field Notes to Life During the Apocalypse
Field Notes to Life During the Apocalypse Shell’s Arctic drilling rig. Photo: Greenpeace. When the apocalypse arrived no one knew it could be so seductive. In the Pacific Northwest global warming has meant winter days fit for lounging outside in t-shirts. Wildfires feeding on drought-stricken forests are producing surreal tangerine-orange sunlight. The heat has wreaked havoc […]
The 2030 Agenda: This Month The UN Launches A Blueprint For A New World Order With The Help Of The Pope
The 2030 Agenda: This Month The UN Launches A Blueprint For A New World Order With The Help Of The Pope Did you know that the UN is planning to launch a “new universal agenda” for humanity in September 2015? That phrase does not come from me – it is actually right in the very first […]
For the Love of Water: El Salvador’s Mining Ban
For the Love of Water: El Salvador’s Mining Ban For some time now, U.S. and Canadian mining companies have been seeking out new mining sites in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. This is partly because high-grade ores that are easily accessible in the U.S. and Canada are in the process of being […]
Hundreds Rally in Alaska to Tell Obama ‘Climate Leaders Don’t Drill the Arctic’
Hundreds Rally in Alaska to Tell Obama ‘Climate Leaders Don’t Drill the Arctic’ Climate groups rallied in Anchorage, Alaska yesterday to demand that the U.S. government, President Obama and Alaskan leaders take the urgent action needed to stop climate change. The “Rally to Confront the Glacial Pace of Political Action” took place as President Obama met with ministers from around the world […]
Growing Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs
Growing Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs By training, I am a plant biologist. In the early 1990s I was busy making genetically modified plants (often called GMOs for Genetically Modified Organisms) as part of the research that led to my PhD. Into these plants we were putting DNA from various foreign organisms, such as […]
Natura 2000: EU Reserves Are Facing Development Pressures
Natura 2000: EU Reserves Are Facing Development Pressures An astonishing 18 percent of the European Union’s land area is protected under a network of preserves known as Natura 2000. Now, at the urging of business interests and farmers, the EU is examining whether regulations on development in these areas should be loosened. Berlin’s world-famous landmark, the […]
Will This Be Remembered as The Summer North Americans Woke Up to Climate Change?
Will This Be Remembered as The Summer North Americans Woke Up to Climate Change? Smokey haze, intense heat, encampments of evacuated residents next to the highway: these were the conditions that greeted Renee Lertzman when she recently drove through Oregon. It’s no wonder why the environmental psychology researcher and professor resorts to the term “apocalyptic” to describe […]
3 major hurricanes recorded over the Pacific for first time ever
3 major hurricanes recorded over the Pacific for first time ever In a historic development this weekend, three major hurricanes were recorded over the Pacific Ocean for the first time since records have been kept. Hurricane Kilo, Hurricane Ignacio and Hurricane Jimena were all classified as Category 4 storms on Sunday, according to the National […]
Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina
Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina (Photo: Eric Gay/AP) For me, the road to This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate begins in a very specific time and place. The time was exactly ten years ago. The place was New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The road in question was flooded and littered with bodies. […]
Long Time Coming, Long Time Gone
Long Time Coming, Long Time Gone Puyé Cliff dwellings, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. On the day Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near vertical cliff on the Parajito Plateau of northern New Mexico. My fingers gripped tightly to handholds notched into the rocks […]
Co-operatives Need to Confront Climate Chaos
Co-operatives Need to Confront Climate Chaos The challenges for 2015 are the same ones we’ve failed as a movement to find solutions to, or even act on, for a very long time: climate change and the neoliberal politics of austerity. The co-operative movement needs to work internationally to stop oil companies extracting, and governments and […]
