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imageAre you a Friend of the Sea? SMS check seafood before you buy it!
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by Paolo Bray
FRIEND OF THE SEA, a project for certification and promotion of sustainable seafood, allows now almost anybody around the world to obtain via SMS real-time seafood environmental status information, before purchase....
Posted: Sat, Mar 17, 2007 5:27pm PDT
imageNASA Climatologist Predicts Disastrous Sea Level Rise
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by Takver (Melbourne Indymedia)
In an interview on Australian ABC Television program, The 7.30 Report, James Hansen, a prominent NASA climatologist, predicted the liklihood that the earth will pass a tipping point resulting in Sea Level Rise of up to a metre every 20 years. The trigger for this is an extra degree of global warming resulting in the runaway melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice sheets....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 8:54am PDT
textTroop Withdrawal Timetables Divide Democrats by Stewart A. Alexander
The campaigning for the 2008 election is off to an early start and the Democrats in both Houses of Congress are using the Iraq War for political leverage to boaster early public support; however Democrats are deeply divided on troop withdrawal timetables, ranging from mid 2007 to various open-ended commitments to continue the war and occupation beyond 2008....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 9:45pm PDT
textGasoline: More Pain At The Pumps by Stewart A. Alexander
Within the past five months, since November 2006, the average driver is paying an additional $42 per month for gasoline and more than $100 per household. Families are finding it difficult to meet household expenses and are cutting back on weekend activities and vacation plans. The higher gasoline prices are driving up inflation nationally and are affecting the cost on consumer goods and services....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 9:34pm PDT
textPG&E's Love Affair with Nuclear Absent from PR Campaign by David Jay
This speech was read as public comment at the March 15, 2007 California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) hearing regarding PG&E's $1.6 billion rate hike proposal. It criticized the fact that it pours millions into nuclear energy and not a dollar towards wind or solar energy, and further highlighted green alternatives to PG&E....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 4:28pm PDT
textBFC Update from the Field - 03/15/07 by BFC Repost
In West Yellowstone, there are still no buffalo outside of the Park. The few far-away bulls we were monitoring are out of sight now, with portions of the Park closed to all human activities to protect waking grizzly bears....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 1:56pm PDT
textWelcome to Rossport, Ireland. Population: Pipeline by Hannah E. Dobbz
In June of 2005, in a village called Rossport in Northwest Ireland, residents began to notice an unusual number of trucks carrying pipeline on their roads. There were so many trucks, in fact, that it was sometimes impossible to travel anywhere as these giant lorries could fully eclipse the narrow country lanes....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 12:41am PDT
textBAN voices grave concern regarding UN e-waste program's lack of transparency by Basel Action Network
The Seattle based toxic trade watchdog, Basel Action Network (BAN), voices grave concern that the newly launched StEP program, which is being called a multi-stakeholder UN program (standing for "Solving the e-Waste Problem"), has very pointedly not denounced the global dumping of electronic waste on developing countries....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 9:53pm PDT
textNo fake snow on San Francisco Peaks by Francisco Da Costa
The Ninth Appeals Court in San Francisco ruled in favor of several tribes to protect the Sacred Ground on San Francisco Peaks in Arizona. The final adjudication has been posted else where on this site. This victory sends a green signal to all First People that the right of the Native Americans should be protected. There have been added rights since early 2000 - that put dubious entities on notice that have discriminated against Native Americans....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:56pm PDT
textNew study shows toxicity of GE maize approved for human consumption by Greenpeace
New study reveals signs of toxicity of GE maize approved for human consumption...
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 11:06pm PDT
text‘Rapid’ global warming due to increase in sun’s radiation by reposted
By Don Beck...
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 12:33pm PDT
text"An Inconvenient Meal": Meat and Global Warming Connection Rarely Acknowledged by karen dawn
DawnWatch: Glenn Beck and Atlantic Monthly cover meat and global warming 3/8/07...
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 12:08am PDT
imageAlaskan Wolves face aerial gunning by Fish & Game Biostitutes, pressure by hunters to cull
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by semp
Mainstream news from Alaska is reporting that the aerial wolf eradication program has only killed 38 wolves from volunteer shooters and pilots. Weather and costly fuel has inhibited the eradication of the target 400 wolves for this season for a few moose hunters. The majority of people are opposed to this sadistic program....
Posted: Sun, Mar 11, 2007 1:50pm PDT
textPETA tells Al Gore to go vegetarian if he's truely serious about global warming by foa
PETA said the effect of meat addition among people on climate is truly staggering and pointed out to a recent report by the U.N., “Livestock's Long Shadow—Environmental Issues and Options,” which has shown that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined....
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 3:30pm PST
textBuffalo Field Campaign Yellowstone Bison Update by BFC Repost
Nearly every day this week, Yellowstone National Park wranglers have been using our tax dollars to conduct intensive buffalo hazing operations along the park's northern boundary near Gardiner....
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 8:52pm PST
textPress Release: Clarifications on the Rosia Montana IGIE report by Rosia Montana
(Canadian mining company wishes to destroy 1800 years old town Rosia Montana to open a cyanide open-pit gold mine. Government is complicit.)...
Posted: Sun, Mar 4, 2007 2:40pm PST
textTake Action Today to keep water clean and safe! by Food & Water Watch
Next week, Congress will vote on whether or not to protect America's water. Tell your Rep to vote YES on H.R. 720, the Water Quality Financing Act of 2007!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 2, 2007 6:34pm PST
imageWolf Population under attack
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by IDA alert
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Requesting Public Comments on Proposed Delisting of Northern Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf Population...
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 8:21pm PST
textBFC Update from the Field - 03/01/07 by BFC Repost
Regardless of the deepening snow, wild buffalo remain absent outside Yellowstone's western boundary. Daily recons show no signs of any wild buffalo migrating out of Yellowstone National Park....
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 7:44pm PST
textGrassy Narrows Travel to Seattle to Protest Weyerhauser by Free Grassy Narrows Solidarity
Indigenous Activists from Grassy Narrows Kick off 3,000 Mile Journey to Evict Weyerhaeuser from Their Land...
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 2:20pm PST
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