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textClosing Arguments in Coronado Free Speech Trial on 9/17/07 by support!
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
textSummer of Record Breaking Weather by Don Beck
[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
textHow Bad Is the Climate Situation ...... Really? by Don Beck
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
textHydrogen Home Filling Station by reposted
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
textVandana Shiva Decries the "Outsourcing of Pollution to the Third World" by via Democracy Now
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
text"Climate Porn" - Simon Retallack on the Dangers of Using Alarmist Language to Talk About Climate Change by via Democracy Now
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
imageSeptember 12, 2007 Update from Rod Coronado Trial
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by support!
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
textBrazil: 185º anniversary of the independence. September the 7th, 1822. by Emilio de Lima
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
textPETITION TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS IN THE OREGON OCEAN,Peace and God Bless,VOTE FOR YOUR FREED by ED Johnston
PETITION TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS IN THE OREGON OCEAN,Peace and God Bless,VOTE FOR YOUR FREEDOM...
Posted: Wed, Sep 12, 2007 3:00pm PDT
textDaniel McGowan moved to FCI Oxford in WI by Family and Friends
After spending over a week in Terre Haute, Daniel is now at FCI Oxford in Wisconsin. We're not sure how long he'll be here but it may be another week. Please write to Daniel!...
Posted: Tue, Sep 11, 2007 9:39am PDT
textComing to our Planet Soon: No More Polar Bears! by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca via Beyond Chron
Monday, September 10, 2007 : You’ve got to feel bad for the polar bear. The big hairy critter who thrives in the extreme cold is walking on thin ice these days. Not only is his natural habitat literally melting away from under him, thanks to all those lovely cars we drive and the airplanes we take to hobnob with friends and relatives around the world, but the big guy’s also being pursued by rich hunters from the United States, Europe and Japan who think it’s a legitimate sport to slaughter h...
Posted: Mon, Sep 10, 2007 6:55am PDT
imageAPEC: The Sydney Declaration a Climate Distraction
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by Takver - Sydney Indymedia
While thousands of people protested in the streets of Sydney about the war in Iraq, climate change, and civil liberties, the 21 APEC leaders made a fashion statement on the steps of the Opera House, before meeting inside and signing the Sydney Declaration - a statement on climate change, that is being widely criticised by environmentalists and climate activists....
Posted: Sat, Sep 8, 2007 9:22am PDT
textAboriginal Australians of the Burrup Peninsula Seek Commonwealth Protection by Robin Chappel
Aboriginal Australian Group seeks Commonwealth Declaration to prevent a multinational corporate fossil fuel alliance led by Chevron from destroying the sacrred herritage of the Burrup Peninsula....
Posted: Fri, Sep 7, 2007 12:22am PDT
textCoronado Free Speech Case Goes To Trial in San Diego by bach repo
Rodney Coronado, well-known environmental, animal rights and Native American activist is facing charges brought by government prosecutors related to a public speech...
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 9:28am PDT
textHow Does the Media Cover Global Warming? by via Democracy Now
Thursday, September 6, 2007 : The Society of Environmental Journalists is holding its seventeenth annual conference at Stanford University this week. We take a look at how the issue of global warming is being covered in the media with two leading environmental journalists, Tim Wheeler of the Baltimore Sun and Jim Motavalli of E, The Environmental Magazine....
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 7:49am PDT
textFmr. Secretary of State George Shultz and Environmentalist Paul Ehrlich on Global Warming, Global Warring, China, ... by via Democracy Now
Thursday, September 6, 2007 : Democracy Now! broadcasts from Stanford University in California where the Society of Environmental Journalists is holding its 17th annual conference. On Wednesday night, the Aurora Forum held an event titled "Clean, Secure, And Efficient Energy: Can We Have It All?" Among the panelists was the still-highly influential George Schultz. He was President Reagan's Secretary of State as well as the head of Bechtel and is now a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Ins...
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 7:48am PDT
imageAustralia: Climate Change to Hot for Bush and Howard
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by Vera (via Takver - Sydney IMC)
Two ice sculptures of Australian Prime Minister John Howard and President George Bush are touring round Sydney during the APEC forum slowly melting in the sun as a reminder of the impact of climate change and the failure of these two leaders to ratify the Kyoto Protocol or set firm targets for greenhouse gas reduction....
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 1:48am PDT
textBan Asbestos in the United States by ban Asbestos
Asbestos has killed and sickened thousands. Much of the Middle east and the EU has banned asbestos, but it is still legal in America, and in many developing countries....
Posted: Wed, Sep 5, 2007 10:37am PDT
textAustralia: Anti Whaling protest targets Japanese PM during APEC visit by Takver (Oceania Indymedia)
Whale conservationists had promised a protest against Japanese Whaling to coincide with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visit to the APEC meeting in Sydney. A long and detailed press release had been prepared and the protestors were to gather outside the Japanese consulate in Brisbane. Half a dozen people representing Whale Watch operators from Whale and Dolphin Watch Australia Inc turned up matched by an equal number of police....
Posted: Mon, Sep 3, 2007 7:31am PDT
textAustralia: APEC Climate Change protest shuts down Victorian Coal Power Station by takver (Oceania Indymedia)
Activists have shut down power generation at the Loy Yang power station in Gippsland's Latrobe Valley in Victoria on Monday morning for five hours, as a protest against inaction on climate change by the Australian Government of John Howard, and policies that maintain the coal power industry and its contribution to climate change at the expense of developing renewable energy production. The action was undertaken to send a message to APEC leaders to take real action on Climate Change and the Ky...
Posted: Sun, Sep 2, 2007 6:59pm PDT
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