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Chinese government acknowledges Three Gorges Dam "disaster"
Friday, October 12, 2007 :After hailing the huge Three Gorges Dam for years as a major national achievement, the Chinese government has admitted for the first time that the project could be a disastrous failure with damaging environmental consequences. The about-face is not a revision of Beijing’s promotion of the unfettered operation of capitalist market....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 8:01am PDT
Climate Change: Arctic Sea Ice Heading for Rapid Disintegration
Arctic summer sea ice is headed towards rapid disintegration as early as 2013, a century ahead of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections, according to 'the Big Melt' (PDF), a new review of recent scientific literature on climate change produced by www.carbonequity.info. We have gone past the tipping point for Arctic sea ice and now we watch the disintegration of the Greenland and the West Antarctic ice sheets which will result in catastrophic changes in sea level of 5 me...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 8:29am PDT
Stop Unregulated Solid Waste Transfer Stations
This letter/article is urging congress, President Bush and the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, Subcommittee Chairwoman -- Corrine Brown (D-Fla) to close the loophole in the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 (ICCTA), allowing unregulated solid waste transfer stations to operate simply because they propose to locate along railroads. The American people need to send a strong message to our elected officials that this threat to human health and ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 5:31am PDT
My visit with Daniel
Hello friends,
It’s been a while since a proper update has gone out, so I wanted to use this opportunity to tell everyone about my visit with Daniel last weekend. Since many people reading this have never visited a prisoner, I thought it would be helpful to also provide an account of my experience doing so. Over the past 2 years, I have gone to see Daniel at county jail (in Eugene) and at a detention center (in Brooklyn), but this was the first time I had been to a prison, or what is offic...
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 2:07pm PDT
URENCO’s rush to keep dumping uranium waste in Russia
A German anti-nuclear group says the world’s biggest supplier of enriched uranium, URENCO, is frantically seeking German and Dutch transport licenses to send waste to an open-air dump in Russia before Russia stops the dumping at the latest in 2009....
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 12:00am PDT
The Making of a Climate Movement
Originally From New America Media
Saturday, October 6, 2007 : Public awareness of the climate crisis has grown enormously in the United States over the past two years, but the government's response lags far behind. Now, however, Washington's sluggish pace is calling forth a surge of activism aimed at persuading the next President and Congress to be far bolder--to advocate and deliver solutions as big as the problem....
Posted: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 9:53am PDT
Bring the Pacific Fisher Back to Washington's Wildlands
Fishers are small, reclusive members of the weasel family that were trapped to near extinction at the turn of the century. Despite a 2004 feasibility study that found abundant prey and denning habitat in the park, fisher haven't been documented on the Olympic Peninsula since 1969. Fisher biologists have determined that reintroduction is the best option for restoring fisher to Washington, and the Olympic National Park has now completed its review of a reintroduction plan.
Image from PBI vi...
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:24pm PDT
Activist Ted Glick on 32nd Day of “Climate Emergency Fast” to Protest Washington Inaction on Global Warming
Friday, October 5, 2007 :
Ted Glick is the coordinator of the U.S. Climate Emergency Council. He is on the 32nd day of a fast to protest the failure of lawmakers in Washington to address climate change....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:48am PDT
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