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Hawaiian Islands are Contaminated with Ballistic Uranium
Please be pro-active and help us protect Hawai'i; demand the military not store, use or transport depleted uranium in the Hawaiian Islands....
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 3:52pm PDT
CISPES presente! in U.S. Delegation to Costa Rica for historic referendum
U.S. Delegation to present CAFTA monitoring report in Costa Rica...
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 3:19pm PDT
Walden: Earth Day 2008 Project
"Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau" is an educational performance play about the final two days Henry David Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden Pond. On EARTH DAY 2007 over 4,000 colleges, schools, home schools and community theaters in nine nations performed the play in celebration of Thoreau, his writings about nature, and our earth.
Help us spread the word for an even bigger success in 2008!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 12:21pm PDT
Arctic Ice Shrinking AND Thinning - Reports
A research team from the National Snow and Ice
Data Center, part of the University of Colorado at
Boulder published their report of the annual 'Arctic
Ice Minimum' last week which tells the extent of
the summer melting. It broke the previous record
set in '05, but it did so by a huge margin. The area
that melted this year is 26% more than the '05
record....
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 10:47am PDT
Mayans in Guatemala: No Compromise, Halt Mining
Sunday, September 30, 2007 TUCSON, Ariz. – Gold and silver mining in the Mayan homelands in northern Guatemala, near the border with Chiapas, Mexico, is poisoning the water and explosives are destroying the homes in the rural farming community of Sipakapa, Guatemala....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 8:02am PDT
Unbowed: Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai on Climate Change, Wars For Resources, the Greenbelt Movement and More
Monday, October 1, 2007 :
As President Bush convenes a special meeting on climate change, we speak to a woman who has been on the frontlines of the popular struggle for the environment long before the current global warming crisis: Kenyan ecologist and Green Belt Movement founder, Wangari Maathai. "I would wish, especially with respect to climate change, that America would provide the leadership that is needed and not be the one that is falling behind," Maathai said....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 8:00am PDT
Arctic sea ice reaches record minimum
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 :On September 16, the Arctic sea reached its minimum extent for 2007 at 4.13 million square kilometers, breaking the record set on September 21, 2005 of 5.32 million square kilometers. The difference between the previous record and the present one, 1.19 million square kilometers, represents roughly the same area as Texas and California combined....
Posted: Tue, Sep 25, 2007 10:27pm PDT
Update on/from Daniel McGowan: September 18, 2007
Hi all,
Daniel has been getting settled into FCI Sandstone and has made a number of calls to friends and family. He's back on his 300 phone minutes a month and is able to start responding to letters, although he may not be able to respond to every single person. Daniel's job (all federal prisoners must work for the prison) is a clerical position in the psychology department. He starts it this week. He's been playing "pickle ball" (not quite sure what that is) and has been eating a lot bett...
Posted: Mon, Sep 24, 2007 1:33am PDT
Nuclear opponents from six European countries met in Germany
More than 100 anti-nuclear activists from six European countries met in Dortmund, Germany, on Saturday (22 Sep) for a uranium conference, reported the Aktionsbündnis Münsterland gegen Atomanlagen on IndyMedia Germany. They were from Russia, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Hungary and Germany itself. The conference was called by more than 40 German and international groups and organisations....
Posted: Sat, Sep 22, 2007 11:25pm PDT
Playing with Fire: The Story of Daniel McGowan, "Eco-terrorism" and the Green Scare
Growing up in New York City, Daniel McGowan saw first-hand how pollution fogged the air and fouled the beaches in some of the city’s poorest communities, setting him on a lifelong path of environmental and social justice. But how he ended up drenched in gasoline and setting fire to Oregon’s Jefferson Poplar Farms in 2001 and was later targeted as a “domestic terrorist” is the story of someone who cared too much and didn’t know what else to do....
Posted: Sat, Sep 22, 2007 10:28am PDT
'Forest Stewardship Council' Certification Under Fire
Supported by numerous American "environmental" NGO's,"FSC" certified wood is a greenwashing dream and an environmental disaster....
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 5:21pm PDT
Hung Jury in Favor of Acquittal in Rod Coronado Free Speech Case
After more than two full days of deliberation, a 12-person jury informed Judge Jeffrey Miller they were hopelessly deadlocked and determined that further deliberation would not deliver unanimity. Outside the courtroom, attorneys were informed that the majority was voting for acquittal of the environmental and animal rights activist on trial for a speech he gave in San Diego in 2003....
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Closing Arguments in Coronado Free Speech Trial on 9/17/07
Attorney Tony Serra for the defense and the government’s attorney will present closing arguments in activist Rod Coronado’s First Amendment trial at 9 a.m. Monday morning in room 16, 5th floor of the Federal District Court, 940 Front St., San Diego, California....
Posted: Mon, Sep 17, 2007 1:22pm PDT
Summer of Record Breaking Weather
[NOAA just released it's report on this summer's weather. This is what global warming looks like.]...
Posted: Mon, Sep 17, 2007 12:25pm PDT
How Bad Is the Climate Situation ...... Really?
I became aware of the power of the climate
decades ago in college classes that were
the most interesting that I had. The professor
was not talking about 'Global Warming' or
'Climate Change' at all, only about the
immensity of the oceans and their affect on
the climate and weather....
Posted: Mon, Sep 17, 2007 12:17pm PDT
Hydrogen Home Filling Station
At your local auto parts store or big box we
should be able in the near future to buy a
package that contains a hydrogen producing
generator. It will be able to be connected to
a solar panel of any kind, and with DC current
it will split water into oxygen and hydrogen
gas. It is actually very simple. The device
will have a system which has probes placed
in water which when DC current is applied
will produce oxygen on one probe and
hydrogen on the other....
Posted: Mon, Sep 17, 2007 12:04pm PDT
Vandana Shiva Decries the "Outsourcing of Pollution to the Third World"
Friday, September 14, 2007 :
We speak world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana Shiva about India and global resource depletion. Shiva says, "India is one of the preferred spots for outsourcing of all the pollution and energy-intensive production of the world. We hear of outsourcing of jobs and informational technology sector. We don't often enough hear about the outsourcing of pollution to the third world."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 10:03pm PDT
"Climate Porn" - Simon Retallack on the Dangers of Using Alarmist Language to Talk About Climate Change
Friday, September 14, 2007 :
We speak with British climate change expert, Simon Retallack about so-called "climate porn." Retallack says, "It's a phrase that's certainly not used to undermine the science...But if we talk about climate change in a way that makes it appear that there's nothing we can do anymore about it, that it's too late, that it's going to be devastating on a global scale...I think we're going to turn people off."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 10:01pm PDT
September 12, 2007 Update from Rod Coronado Trial
The hearing opened today with the Court redacting admission of parts of the videotape of a speech given by Rod Coronado at American University in January of 2003, on the grounds that they were not relevant to the case....
Posted: Wed, Sep 12, 2007 11:48pm PDT
Brazil: 185º anniversary of the independence. September the 7th, 1822.
The place was chosen to receive resources from the PAG because it is an area of water sources and of ambient protection.
Through Guarituba flow Piraquara and Iraí rivers. They are responsible for 60% of the water that supplies Curitiba and metropolitan region ....
Posted: Wed, Sep 12, 2007 3:32pm PDT