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Industry-Funded Vivian Krause Uses Classic Dirty PR Tactics to Distract from Canada’s Real Energy Debate | DeSmog Canada
Industry-Funded Vivian Krause Uses Classic Dirty PR Tactics to Distract from Canada’s Real Energy Debate | DeSmog Canada. Vivian Krause has spent years scrutinizing how Canadian environmental groups are funded, claiming she’s just asking “fair questions.” But as the blogger-turned-newspaper-columnist has run rampant with her conspiracy theory that American charitable foundations’ support of Canadian environmental groups is […]
Fast-Warming Gulf of MaineOffers Hint of Future for Oceans by Rebecca Kessler: Yale Environment 360
Fast-Warming Gulf of MaineOffers Hint of Future for Oceans by Rebecca Kessler: Yale Environment 360. The waters off the coast of New England are warming more rapidly than almost any other ocean region on earth. Scientists are now studying the resulting ecosystem changes, and their findings could provide a glimpse of the future for many […]
How to Start a Bike Kitchen – Shareable
How to Start a Bike Kitchen – Shareable. A bike kitchen is a place for people to repair their bikes, learn safe cycling, make bicycling more accessible, build community, and support sustainable transportation by getting more people on bikes. Most bike kitchens have tools, parts, mechanics, and a community of knowledgeable cyclists. Around the world there are thousands of bike kitchens — also […]
Additions to a Food Forest | Peak Prosperity
Additions to a Food Forest | Peak Prosperity. Red mulberry trees are one of my favorite trees. They make fantastic additions to any permaculture garden or farm. I actually have two mature mulberry trees on my property, which is great, but I also planted half a dozen in my food forest. Mulberry Tree Planting Zones: […]
Conservationists slam plans to dump mining waste into Norwegian fjord | Environment | The Guardian
Conservationists slam plans to dump mining waste into Norwegian fjord | Environment | The Guardian. Norway’s image as one of the world’s cleanest, greenest countries with some of the finest unspoilt scenery will be tarnished if the government allows a giant titanium mining company to dump hundreds of millions of tonnes of waste directly into […]
All 50 U.S. states feel freezing temperatures, four dead in New York | Reuters
All 50 U.S. states feel freezing temperatures, four dead in New York | Reuters. (Reuters) – Temperatures in all 50 U.S. states dipped to freezing or below on Tuesday as an unseasonably cold blast of weather moved across the country while heavy snow prompted a state of emergency in western New York and contributed to […]
Ebola in Brooklyn? FDNY arrives in Hazmat suits as woman drops dead | Daily Mail Online
Ebola in Brooklyn? FDNY arrives in Hazmat suits as woman drops dead | Daily Mail Online. The FDNY activated their Special Operations and Hazmat units in response to a death in Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon A woman who dropped dead at Amy Professional Hair Braidig had blood ‘coming from her face, nose and mouth’ said […]
Walking is Going Places | On the Commons
Walking is Going Places | On the Commons. Walking is going places. Humans’ most common pastime–forsaken for decades as too slow and too much effort– is now recognized as a health breakthrough, an economic catalyst and a route to happiness. Real Simple magazine (circulation: 2 million) declared “walking America’s untrendiest trend” in its February 2014 cover […]
Naomi Klein: Reject Keystone XL Pipeline, We Need Radical Change to Prevent Catastrophic Warming | Democracy Now!
Naomi Klein: Reject Keystone XL Pipeline, We Need Radical Change to Prevent Catastrophic Warming | Democracy Now!. House lawmakers passed legislation Friday to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline to bring carbon-intensive tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf Coast. The Senate is expected to vote this week on a similar pro-Keystone […]
Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’: a review | Transition Network
Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’: a review | Transition Network. Reading a Naomi Klein book is always a deeply absorbing experience. In a sense, the sheer size of them means you have no choice other than to be absorbed (This Changes Everything runs to almost 600 pages). Her two previous masterworks, No Logo and The Shock Doctrine were mind-altering and […]
The Great Change: Is this all we get?
The Great Change: Is this all we get?. As we endure the kind of 11-day Arctic blast of all-powerful Rossby Waves that will define our childrens’ future, we note a sudden uptick in interest in climate. Unfortunately, the new US-China bilateral climate deal leaves us feeling like that T-shirt that says, “I went to Beijing […]
Dust Storms Again in the High Plains
Dust Storms Again in the High Plains. A cold Arctic air mass swept southward across the high plains last Tuesday, its 50 mph winds dropping temperatures by 50 degrees overnight. Blowing over drought-parched farm soil, the wind created a huge dust storm in eastern Colorado, visible in striking photographs from aircraft and from space. The same region had seven dust […]
Grassroots Activists Say Climate Change Demands System Change
Grassroots Activists Say Climate Change Demands System Change. It’s remembered as the global march for climate justice, but how did that word “justice” get into the title of the huge rallies that took place in New York and other cities this September? Money media typically do such a bad job of covering social movements that […]
3 Billion Gallons Of Fracking Wastewater Pumped Into Clean California Aquifiers: “Errors Were Made” State Admits | Zero Hedge
3 Billion Gallons Of Fracking Wastewater Pumped Into Clean California Aquifiers: “Errors Were Made” State Admits | Zero Hedge. Dear California readers: if you drank tapwater this morning (or at any point in the past few weeks/months), you may be in luck as you no longer need to buy oil to lubricate your engine: just […]
