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How to lower your foodprint | Queen of Green | David Suzuki Foundation
How to lower your foodprint | Queen of Green | David Suzuki Foundation. Your “foodprint” — the choices you make about what you eat — can make as big a difference for the environment as how you get around. This fall, a team of Queen of Green coaches are helping a community of Canadian families go from […]
Understanding How Your Blood reacts To cold Is A Lifesaver | Underground Medic
Understanding How Your Blood reacts To cold Is A Lifesaver | Underground Medic. Every winter we are bombarded by information about the cold and how to protect ourselves from it and from health issues associated with it. Wrap up warm, keep one room heated to a minimum 18*C, avoid hypothermia, eat and drink warm food, […]
Edelman’s TransCanada Astroturf Documents Expose Oil Industry’s Broad Attack on Public Interest | DeSmogBlog
Edelman’s TransCanada Astroturf Documents Expose Oil Industry’s Broad Attack on Public Interest | DeSmogBlog. Documents obtained by Greenpeace detail a desperate astroturf PR strategydesigned by Edelman for TransCanada to win public support for its Energy East tar sands export pipeline. TransCanada has failed for years to win approval of the controversial border-crossing Keystone XLpipeline, so apparently the company […]
BBC News – Madagascar plague outbreak kills 40, says WHO
BBC News – Madagascar plague outbreak kills 40, says WHO. An outbreak of plague in Madagascar has killed 40 people and infected almost 80 others, the World Health Organization has said. The WHO warned of the danger of a “rapid spread” of the disease in the capital, Antananarivo. The situation is worsened by high levels of […]
Kinder Morgan Begins Survey Work On Burnaby Mountain As Protests Continue
Kinder Morgan Begins Survey Work On Burnaby Mountain As Protests Continue. BURNABY, B.C. – First Nations vowed to stand in unity with protesters as police kept up arrests Friday in a Metro Vancouver conservation area where crews resumed survey work for the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Shortly after activists announced they would do whatever […]
The problems of environmental activism in Russia | openDemocracy
The problems of environmental activism in Russia | openDemocracy. This autumn, in cities worldwide there were climate-themed marches to tie in with the Ban Ki-Moon UN summit, the most of important of which was a 400-thousand-strong demonstration in New York; and Russia too passed a series of measures. On 23 September, environmental activists from Moscow […]
Introducing “Natural Gas Exports: Washington’s Revolving Door Fuels Climate Threat” | DeSmogBlog
Introducing “Natural Gas Exports: Washington’s Revolving Door Fuels Climate Threat” | DeSmogBlog. DeSmogBlog’s Steve Horn and Republic Report’s Lee Fang have co-written an in-depth report on the influence thegovernment-industry revolving door has had on Big Oil’s ability to obtain four liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permits since 2012 from the Obama Administration. Titled “Natural Gas Exports: Washington’s Revolving Door Fuels Climate Threat,” […]
New Research Says Plant-based Diet Best for Planet and People – Our World
New Research Says Plant-based Diet Best for Planet and People – Our World. As cities grow and incomes rise around the world, more and more people are leaving gardens and traditional diets behind and eating refined sugars, refined fats, oils and resource- and land-intense agricultural products like beef. This global dietary transition is harming the […]
Shipping Traffic Increases Fourfold Leading To Pollution Concerns
Shipping Traffic Increases Fourfold Leading To Pollution Concerns. Global ship traffic has exploded during the past two decades, likely bringing with it more air, water and even noise pollution, according to a new study by the American Geophysical Union. Using satellite data to estimate oceangoing transport, the Union estimated that the number of ships on the […]
Climate change: US says global October temperatures a record high for month – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Climate change: US says global October temperatures a record high for month – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Global temperatures in October, as well as the entire year-to-date, were the planet’s hottest on average since record-keeping began in 1880, the US government says. It was also the 38th consecutive October in which global average temperatures […]
» Doctors: Potential Ebola Cases Still ‘Covered Up By CDC’ Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!
» Doctors: Potential Ebola Cases Still ‘Covered Up By CDC’ Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!. Ebola continues to spread wildly in Sierra Leone as experts project that virtually all major cities in the United States will face imported cases of Ebola amid the failed response of the CDC. The nightly news says the story […]
Agrarians are back to save America from consumerism and empire — Transition Voice
Agrarians are back to save America from consumerism and empire — Transition Voice. Twentieth-century America witnessed the blossoming of Agrarianism as an intellectual and cultural movement. Its roots lay within the mythos of the early American Republic, which cast the self-sufficient yeoman farm family as the foundation of ordered liberty. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in […]
Climate Spending Falls, Threatening 2-Degree Target – Bloomberg
Climate Spending Falls, Threatening 2-Degree Target – Bloomberg. Spending on carbon-reduction and climate-protection measures by governments and companies fell for a second year, threatening the United Nations’ goal to cap global warming at safe levels, according to a research report. World expenditures on renewables, energy efficiency and measures that protect against the effects of climate change slid $28 billion, or […]
Deadly snowstorm hits parts of New York state – Weather – Al Jazeera English
Deadly snowstorm hits parts of New York state – Weather – Al Jazeera English. Heavy snow has choked parts of New York state, stranding motorists in their cars, forcing people to remain indoors and leaving at least seven people dead. The snow has been very localised: Buffalo Airport reported just 9cm of snow, whereas the suburb […]
Will Ontario miss the boat on energy conservation? | – Environmental Defence
Will Ontario miss the boat on energy conservation? | – Environmental Defence. Energy conservation is the cheapest and easiest way to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Research shows that reducing energy use creates jobs, increases our GDP, lowers government deficits, and cuts carbon pollution. It’s for these reasons that the Ontario government adopted the principle of “Conservation […]
