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Earth Matters Radio - MOUNTAIN JUSTICE SUMMER with KATUA EARTH FIRST! (audio/mpeg 6.8MB) "EARTH MATTERS" - a weekly segment on KPFA radio's "FLASHPOINTS" - This week : An interview with JOHN JOHNSON, an organizer with KATUA EARTH FIRST! John discusses the ravages of the coal industry's latest development scam in Appalachia, so-called 'Mountain Top Removal.' Find out about the upcoming Mountain Justice Summer, Katua Earth First!'s plan for resistance to MTR. mp3 audio, 12 minutes...
Posted: Sat, Feb 26, 2005 12:48pm PST
Polar Bears May Become Extinct by the End of This Century The Center for Biological Diversity, a non profit conservation organization, filed a formal petition requesting that the polar bear species (Ursus maritimus) worldwide be added to the list of threatened species under the United States Endangered Species Act. Polar bears may become extinct by the end of this century because their sea-ice habitat is literally melting away due to global warming....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 11:54am PST
Bush Hydrogen Vision 'Fueled' By California Station Opening - In a major step toward achieving President George W. Bush's vision for a hydrogen economy, assistant secretary of Energy David Garman today joined representatives of ChevronTexaco, Hyundai-Kia and UTC Fuel Cells at the opening of a hydrogen fueling station in Chino, CA....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 11:41pm PST
Forest Service Becoming Rogue Agency Forty-Four Recent Court Rulings Find Environmental Lawbreaking...
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 10:12am PST
Eco Activist Murdered in Amazon 
74 year old American missionary Sister Dorothy Stang was assassinated on Saturday in the Amazon state of Para, Brazil. Sister Dorothy was travelling to a sustainable development project in Anapu with some colleagues when she was shot three times by two gunmen....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 1:26pm PST
McLibel: British Activists Sued for Distributing McDonald's Flyers Win Court Case Two activists sued by McDonalds in Britain won their case against the British government, in a case that could change UK libel law forever. The European Court of Human Rights said the UK legal system breached the right to a fair trial and freedom of expression. Activists David Morris and Helen Steel were sued by McDonalds in 1990 for handing out leaflets called "What"s Wrong with McDonald's", accusing the company of paying low wages, cruelty to animals used in its products and ...
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 9:23am PST
Kyoto: What's to Celebrate? 
While many are celebrating the Kyoto Protocol's entering into force this week, others are finding cause for grave concern....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 12:40pm PST
Nun assassinated defending Amazon Nun assassinated defending Amazon
Greenpeace: the state government of Para has failed to protect her...
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 11:00pm PST
'The Angel of the Trans-Amazonian' 
Federal officials said they did not expect Stang to become a victim. She was a public figure who was known nationally after winning awards for human rights and environmental work....
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 9:11pm PST
The End of Suburbia: Film Review The documentary predicts that, as less oil is pumped from the ground and prices surge upward, property values of suburban homes will plummet.. The documentary postulates that the answer to the coming oil shortage resides in new urbanism....
Posted: Sun, Feb 13, 2005 12:25pm PST
NCPA: Opponents Lose on Clear Skies Amendment; Committee Votes for Version That Does Not I DALLAS, Feb. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee have offered a new version of the Clear Skies Act to committee members. The new version of the Act is a clear defeat for critics of the original bill, and scholars at the National Center for Policy Analysis said it would be better for the bill to die in committee rather than move forward with the caps on CO2....
Posted: Sat, Feb 12, 2005 1:30am PST
Farmers' Seeds Outlawed in Iraq Iraqi Order 81 is of special interest because it goes a
long way in affecting every living being on the planet.
This order prohibits Iraqi farmers from using the
methods of agriculture that they have used for
centuries. The common worldwide practice of saving
heirloom seeds from one year to the next is now illegal
in Iraq. Order 81 wages war on Iraqi farmers. They have
lost the freedom and liberty to choose their own
methods of agriculture....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 9:53pm PST
CoopRadio.org: Dr. Rosalie Bertell on PLANET EARTH: The Latest Weapon of War - Feb. 7 "Rosalie Bertell shows how the space programme, Star Wars research and electromagnetic weapons have destabilised the ecosystem, causing widespread devastation in environmental, economic and social terms. She calls for a new approach to security, rising above the national agendas, to seek global solutions to a global problem.”...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 6:22pm PST
SeaRAG Protests Weyerhaeuser, #1 destroyer of old growth forests, in downtown Seattle 
Citizens' group warns of death by Weyerhaeuser's logging practices...
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 9:46pm PST
Feb 10 Day of Action Against Mountain Range Removal There is an institution near you complicit in mountain range removal coal mining. A coal company, an electric utility, a government office, a bank, a lobbying firm.
This is a call for a simultaneous day of action against mountain range removal across Appalachia, the US and the world. Be as loud as you can in protest of watershed destruction!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 3:25pm PST
Biscuit Rally: Old growth logging is now active Time to get busy defending Biscuit. The LSR is released and the court
won't hear the case until March. Large trees are falling and the largest
timber sale of modern times could be done before a court ruling....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 6:00pm PST
BUSH Kyoto Would "Cool Down" U.S. Economy And Have "Catastrophic Effects" 
Scientists have said that two degrees centigrade of warming is already expected.
They have predicted that above that level the warming will push the planet into the unknown as ice caps melt, sea levels rise and weather patterns change at accelerating rates putting entire species and millions of people at risk.
The World Wide Fund for Nature said at the weekend that disastrous climate change could kick in within 20 years, leading to possible wipeout in the Arctic of species like po...
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 10:00am PST
Biscuit Fire Old Growth Reserves Face Imminent Logging 
A court ordered injunction that prevented logging in seven timber sales has been lifted. As a result, sensitive old-growth reserves are now imminently threatened by the Fiddler, Steed, Berry, Wafer, Hobson, Lazy, and Briggs Six logging sales. The Forest Service is trying to saw through these sales before a court case on the legality of the logging can be heard by a judge on March 22nd. If logging proceeds, it could be completed before the court decides whether the logging is legal or not....
Posted: Sun, Jan 30, 2005 1:39pm PST
Environmental Activist and Political Prisoner - Tre Arrow 
ONE DOWN, THREE TO GO:
an update from the Media as the Judge speaking tour...
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 2:47pm PST
Report: Global Warming Much Worse Than Previously Thought We speak with physicist and professor, Myles Allen who is the principal investigator of a major new study conducted by the ClimatePrediction.net project that warns the effects of global warming may be twice as bad as previously thought....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 8:46am PST
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