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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
PETITION TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS IN THE OREGON OCEAN,Peace and God Bless,VOTE FOR YOUR FREED 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
Daniel McGowan moved to FCI Oxford in WI 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
Coming to our Planet Soon: No More Polar Bears! 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
APEC: The Sydney Declaration a Climate Distraction 
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
Aboriginal Australians of the Burrup Peninsula Seek Commonwealth Protection 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
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