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Genetically modified escalation | Eric Garza
Genetically modified escalation | Eric Garza. This past Sunday, author and activist Vandana Shiva paid my hometown of Burlington, Vermont a visit. She praised Vermont’s GMO labeling law (Act 120), which the state legislature passed earlier this year and the governor promptly signed. I couldn’t attend Shiva’s talk in person but watched a recording, and […]
Ebola: Sierra Leone Hit by Lack of Treatment Units – The Epoch Times
Ebola: Sierra Leone Hit by Lack of Treatment Units – The Epoch Times. FREETOWN, Sierra Leone—The 7-year-old boy’s family and friends are praying over his body when the men in yellow protective suits, face shields and masks arrive. The boy had died at his home in Freetown. This same day, the collection team goes into […]
Pandemic Implications | Zero Hedge
Pandemic Implications | Zero Hedge. The recent spread of Ebola has led to a tragic loss of human lives and stands to devastate West African economies. As the situation has evolved, and despite the equity market’s apparent belief that it’s all over, Goldman has examined the global economic and market implications of the outbreak. It […]
What Is the Carbon Limit? That Depends Who You Ask by Fred Pearce: Yale Environment 360
What Is the Carbon Limit? That Depends Who You Ask by Fred Pearce: Yale Environment 360. How much carbon can we safely emit into the atmosphere without the planet suffering dangerous climate change? It would be good to know. The world’s governments have agreed that “dangerous” should mean any warming above two degrees Celsius. And […]
NASA Warns California Drought Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply: “There will be some definite changes” | Dave Hodges – The Common Sense Show
NASA Warns California Drought Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply: “There will be some definite changes” | Dave Hodges – The Common Sense Show. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has sounded a stark warning over California’s sustained drought, publishing its latest findings where satellite surveys show a rapidly depleting groundwater supply. And with California as the United States’ most valuable agricultural state, and thus key to […]
Who Stands To Benefit From Climate Change?
Who Stands To Benefit From Climate Change?. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their synthesis report Sunday, Nov. 2nd. The report combines the Panel’s past work and reiterates the near unanimity in the scientific community regarding the man-made role in global climate change. Still, public and political perception is very much divided and […]
Three International Water Conflicts to Watch – Geopoliticalmonitor.com
Three International Water Conflicts to Watch – Geopoliticalmonitor.com. China-India: The Brahmaputra River The Brahmaputra River is a 2,900 km river that originates in Tibet and flows through India’s Arunachal Pradesh state before merging with the Ganges and draining into the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. It is considered an important resource in all three countries […]
China’s Parched Plains Ending Run of Record Corn Harvests – Bloomberg
China’s Parched Plains Ending Run of Record Corn Harvests – Bloomberg. The record surge in Chinese corn output is over, and Dong Yushan doesn’t have to look much farther than his dusty fields in Henan province to see why. A lack of rain from May to August turned into the worst drought the 67-year-old farmer ever saw. […]
8 Countries With Nuclear Power Plants Most At Risk Of Tsunamis
8 Countries With Nuclear Power Plants Most At Risk Of Tsunamis. The tsunami that destroyed a nuclear reactor at Fukushima, Japan, caused a major re-think of nuclear power, which up to the accident in 2011, had been considered a relatively safe, clean form of electricity generation. The tsunami that followed shortly after a 9.0 mega-quake […]
Government Lied About Pandemic Which Killed 50 Million People … Attempt to “Prevent Panic” Backfired Washington’s Blog
Government Lied About Pandemic Which Killed 50 Million People … Attempt to “Prevent Panic” Backfired Washington’s Blog. Governments Have Suppressed the Dangers of Epidemics Before, Only Making Things Worse The mainstream American press has agreed – at the request of the government – not to report on suspected Ebola cases. Let’s provide some context … The […]
Ebola: Putting On and Removing Personal protective Equipment | Underground Medic
Ebola: Putting On and Removing Personal protective Equipment | Underground Medic. Not everyone is able to afford a full hazmat suit in order to protect themselves from Ebola. For those that will be relying on protective equipment that is widely available on sites such as Amazon, the following guide may be helpful. Take note particularly […]
Asia ‘not doing enough’ to fight Ebola – Asia-Pacific – Al Jazeera English
Asia ‘not doing enough’ to fight Ebola – Asia-Pacific – Al Jazeera English. Asian countries are not contributing enough to the global effort to fight Ebola, despite having a wealth of trained medical personnel who could help stop the spread of the deadly virus, World Bank Group president, Jim Yong Kim, said. Addressing a news […]
When the Shale Runs Dry: A Look at the Future of Fracking | DeSmogBlog
When the Shale Runs Dry: A Look at the Future of Fracking | DeSmogBlog. If you want to see the future of the shale industry — what today’s drilling rush will leave behind — come to Bradford, Pennsylvania. A small city, it was home to one of America’s first energy booms, producing over three quarters of […]
The Great Change: What Rough Beast Is This?
The Great Change: What Rough Beast Is This?. We are recently returned from the Mother Earth News Fair in Kansas where we spoke of the promise of permaculture and carbon farming to reverse global weirding. We are always happier after attending these events because they are so grounded in real skills and vocations and full […]
California Could Suffer a Fukushima-Style Meltdown Washington’s Blog
California Could Suffer a Fukushima-Style Meltdown Washington’s Blog. U.S. Ignoring Earthquake Risks to Nuclear Plants Scientists warned that an earthquake could take out Fukushima. The Japanese ignored the warning. (The Fukushima reactors were damaged by the earthquake before the tsunami hit, because the design of the reactors was defective.) But that couldn’t happen in the U.S. … right? Well, the engineers who […]
