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All I Want for Xmas is 5 Million Tons of Garbage Monday, December 17, 2007 : Xmas is all about spending. Forget Baby Jesus in his cold manger bed, or those overworked sweatshop elves in the North Pole. When all is said and done, Xmas in America is about one thing and one thing only: Cold hard dollars and cents, the kind that people shell out to show someone how much they love them or to make themselves feel as if they are getting “in the holiday spirit.” Last year, Americans spent an average of $910 on gifts, which was down from $1,004 in 2...
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 7:00am PST
The Search for the Whale Killers Has Begun 
For the fourth year running the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has ventured into the icy waters of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary bordering Antarctica to enforce conservation law and stop the cruel and inhumane whaling activities of a Japanese whaling fleet. In this commentary by Captain Paul Watson, Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, he explains why 41 volunteers on board the Steve Irwin are searching for the Whaling Fleet....
Posted: Sun, Dec 16, 2007 5:57pm PST
Unions Must Rise to the Challenge of Climate Change Sunday, December 16, 2007 : More than 10,000 delegates and observers from around the world traveled to Bali, Indonesia, for the U.N. Climate Change Conference from Dec. 3-14. Of the 90 union delegates, more than 20 were from North America, including Roger Toussaint, president of Transport Workers (TWU) Local 100 in New York, who sent us the following post....
Posted: Sun, Dec 16, 2007 10:11am PST
Benefits of Organic Outdoor Grown Cannabis 
Organic Outdoor Grown cannabis produces more volume, stronger potency and is earth friendly.
With the proliferation of hydroponics shops urging people to set up their own indoor grow rooms, and local authorities implementing regulations regarding cannabis gardens, it is time to take a closer look at the benefits of Organic Outdoor Grown (OOG) cannabis....
Posted: Sun, Dec 16, 2007 7:18am PST
Bush administration isolated at Bali climate conference Friday, December 14, 2007 :The two-week UN-sponsored conference on climate change on the Indonesian island of Bali has been dominated by the intransigence of the Bush administration and the mounting conflicts among the great powers, particularly between the United States and the European Union. United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the official sponsor of the conference, submitted a document calling on the industrialized nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 25 ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 14, 2007 8:15am PST
Request To Put Speed Limits On All Sections Of The Autobahn Network In Germany Petition After seeing a TV commercial of a leading German car manufacturer touting its overdesigned windshield wipers that they claim could handle driving on the Autobahn in the rain, and after finding the specs for a 200hp, 30mpg car on a different German car manufacturer's website (ie the technology for super mpg cars is on today's showroom floor, but is being wasted by building muscle cars with ever more hp instead of slimming down these engines and cars to get higher mpg), I wrote this petition....
Posted: Thu, Dec 13, 2007 6:13pm PST
"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic On this God-forsaken island Bill Gates is investing tens of his millions along with the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation and the Government of Norway, among others, in what is called the ‘doomsday seed bank.’ Officially the project is named the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard island group....
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:28pm PST
Mitch McConnell, George Bush, Dick Cheney Are "Climate Criminals" - Environmentalist in 99th Day of Climate Emergency Fast Tuesday, December 11, 2007 :Environmentalist Ted Glick is heading to Capitol Hill today to protest Republican opposition to a House-approved Energy Bill. The Bush administration and leading Republicans oppose the measure. Glick is now on the ninety-ninth day of a fast to protest the failure of Congress to address climate change....
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:12am PST
"It Is Time to Make Peace With the Planet" - Al Gore Accepts 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Tuesday, December 11, 2007 :The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Monday to former Vice President Al Gore and the UN?s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their work to help combat global warming. "We and the earth's climate are locked in a relationship familiar to war planners: 'Mutually assured destruction,'" Gore said in his acceptance speech. "It is time to make peace with the planet."...
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2007 7:46am PST
Forest Service Open Space Strategy WASHINGTON - As homes and shopping malls proliferate, the United States loses about 6,000 acres of open space every day - four acres per minute....
Posted: Sun, Dec 9, 2007 11:19am PST
Please Sign Al Gore's Petition, it takes ten seconds Please send this to everyone you know!...
Posted: Fri, Dec 7, 2007 11:17am PST
Kauai to Superferry: Stay Away 
Vowing that would not happen again, Governor Linda Lingle, a friend of President George Bush, purchased armored vests for Kauai police and machine guns. Legislative rumors have it that Lingle has a "special relationship" with wealthy Superferry financier John Lehmann. She is said to want to run for US Senator Akaka's seat....
Posted: Tue, Dec 4, 2007 9:31am PST
Un-nerving Update to Recent Climate Report What the IPCC Report Didn't and Couldn't Say...
Posted: Sun, Dec 2, 2007 8:26am PST
Abolishing the Hypocrisy & Waste of Xmas 78% of Americans wish the holidays were less materialistic, demonstrating that the hysterics over Xmas are purely manufactured by the private profit economy, and therefore can be reversed....
Posted: Sun, Dec 2, 2007 7:47am PST
La CFE no cuenta con autorización para construir la Parota * Elías Ayub tergiversa el fallo de la Juez Octava de Distrito, en materia de aguas y ambiental.
* La suspensión definitiva dictada por la Juez que impide a la CFE entrar a las tierras comunales sigue vigente.
* Con sus declaraciones impulsa la violencia a pesar de que el CECOP ha seguido los caminos jurídicos y legales.
* Existen siete resoluciones a favor del CECOP y que prohíben a la CFE ingresar a La Parota....
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2007 11:13pm PST
SEIU Joins International Union And Environmental Allies To Advocate For Environmental Justice Friday, November 30, 2007 : SEIU Vice President Gerry Hudson to highlight disproportionate impact of global warming on low-income people, advocate for environmental justice...
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2007 8:00am PST
Chinese gas shortages despite record oil prices CHINA is running out of fuel. Police are guarding petrol stations in several inland provinces to prevent fights, as shortages of petrol and diesel are causing huge queues of trucks, buses and cars.
In Kunming, capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, 1000 trucks are stranded.
A truck driver named Li told the Chuncheng Evening News he had been stranded at the Stone Tiger Gate petrol station for three days after searching for fuel in other places, but failing. He said his delivery ...
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2007 8:29pm PST
Climate Disasters Have Increased 4 X in Past 20 Yrs The Oxfam International Organization has released
a new report:...
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2007 8:33am PST
Australia: Bans on Genetically Modified Crops lifted Despite Wide Opposition Bans on commercial growing of genetically-modified (GM) canola crops have been lifted by the Governments of two Australian states - New South Wales and Victoria - despite pleas from the Western Australian and Tasmanian Governments, and over 250 companies in the food business to maintain the moratorium, and Japanese food buyers urging continuation of the ban in October. The moratorium on GM canola will be lifted from February/March 2008....
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2007 2:41am PST
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