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Protecting Seeds and Their Stories: The Sacred in Everyday Life – PermacultureNews.org
Protecting Seeds and Their Stories: The Sacred in Everyday Life – PermacultureNews.org. The recent UN Climate Change Summit, the marches in New York and around the world, once again brought into our collective consciousness the need for real change. As did the shocking news of the global loss of species. The vital need to protect […]
Climate Crisis and the Pursuit of Happiness: Reflections on Community Solutions Conference – Transition Milwaukee
Climate Crisis and the Pursuit of Happiness: Reflections on Community Solutions Conference – Transition Milwaukee. Last weekend I had the privilege of attending the Sixth Community Solutions Conference: “Climate Crisis—Curtailment and Community—and The Power of Individual Action,” held in Yellow Springs Ohio by The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions. To those not familiar with […]
A Scourge for Coal Miners Stages a Brutal Comeback by Ken Ward Jr.: Yale Environment 360
A Scourge for Coal Miners Stages a Brutal Comeback by Ken Ward Jr.: Yale Environment 360. Black lung — a debilitating disease caused by inhaling coal dust — was supposed to be wiped out by a landmark 1969 U.S. mine safety law. But a recent study shows that the worst form of the disease now […]
Questions We Should Have Asked about Technology
Questions We Should Have Asked about Technology. Welcome. Thanks so much for joining us at this Teach-In—maybe we should really call it a marathon rather than Teach-In. It’s going to be 50 speakers over 22 hours on two days in a steady stream, covering as many nuances and aspects of this question as we could manage to […]
BBC News – Fossil fuel promises are being broken, report says
BBC News – Fossil fuel promises are being broken, report says. World governments have been breaking promises to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels, a report says. The Overseas Development Institute says G20 nations spent almost £56bn ($90bn) a year finding oil, gas and coal. It comes despite evidence that two thirds of existing reserves […]
Lawsuit Filed to Protect Struggling Walruses from Arctic Oil Drilling » EcoWatch
Lawsuit Filed to Protect Struggling Walruses from Arctic Oil Drilling » EcoWatch. Threats to walruses in the Arctic are in the spotlight again, as six environmental and conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) challenging a rule that would allow oil companies to begin drilling in key walrus feeding areas in […]
Lessons from B.C.’s carbon tax | Blog Posts | Pembina Institute
Lessons from B.C.’s carbon tax | Blog Posts | Pembina Institute. It’s been hailed as an environmental and economic “success,” a “textbook case” in carbon pricing and “on the right track” toward good economic policy. British Columbia’s carbon tax has been in place for six years, and all available evidence shows it’s working. Here’s the […]
The Great Change: BooneDoggle
The Great Change: BooneDoggle. “In the event of the worst case – where successive 75-year-old earthen dams built by the Corps of Engineers under emergency wartime conditions are overtopped or washed away – there is no plan to protect these riverside nuclear reactors.” Many of our friends have been urgently sending us warnings of an […]
25th Anniversary: Thatcher Tells UN Markets Must Face Limits to Prevent Climate Change | DeSmog UK
25th Anniversary: Thatcher Tells UN Markets Must Face Limits to Prevent Climate Change | DeSmog UK. Margaret Thatcher was at the height of her premiership when she took to the podium at the United Nations general assembly on the global environment held at the UN building in New York on 8 November 1989. Margaret Thatcher took to […]
How did palm oil become such a problem — and what can we do about it? | Ensia
How did palm oil become such a problem — and what can we do about it? | Ensia. November 3, 2014 — Last August, from the window of a jet high over Sumatra, I counted nearly a dozen plumes of smoke rising from the vast jungles and plantations below. Some more than a half-mile wide, they […]
Brazilian Judge Sides With Tribe Over Land Threatened by Dams | Environment News Service
Brazilian Judge Sides With Tribe Over Land Threatened by Dams | Environment News Service. BRASILIA, Brazil, November 6, 2014 (ENS) – In a struggle between a Brazilian indigenous tribe and the federal government over two dams that would flood lands claimed by the tribe, a federal judge has ruled that the government must immediately publish […]
German village Feldheim the country’s first community to become energy self-sufficient – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
German village Feldheim the country’s first community to become energy self-sufficient – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). The rural village of Feldheim, 80 kilometres south of Berlin, is at the vanguard of Germany’s energy revolution, boasting a wind farm, solar plant, biogas and biomass facilities. Germany is undergoing an energy transformation called Energiewende, which aims […]
Why Warnings on Climate Spark Aggressive Denials – Truthdig
Why Warnings on Climate Spark Aggressive Denials – Truthdig. LONDON—If you don’t like the message on climate change, it seems that the answer is to shoot the messenger. According to a new book by veteran environmentalist George Marshall, thousands of abusive emails—including demands that he commit suicide or be “shot, quartered and fed to the pigs, […]
Pedalling the way to cleaner food – Sustainable Food Trust – Sustainable Food Trust
Pedalling the way to cleaner food – Sustainable Food Trust – Sustainable Food Trust. Anybody who has witnessed the spectacle of a seven-tonne lorry reversing over a canal bridge in Amsterdam will applaud fresh innovation in the city’s delivery systems. These narrow 17th-century bridges and streets are no home for huge vehicles, which often look […]
Resource Insights: Why GMO labeling in the U.S. needs to win only once
Resource Insights: Why GMO labeling in the U.S. needs to win only once. There were no doubt celebrations last week in the boardrooms of corporations that own patents to the world’s genetically engineered crops. Proposals to label foods containing these crops–commonly called GMOs for genetically modified organisms–were defeated soundly in Colorado and barely in Oregon. That […]
