Amazon Road Plan Has Native People on the March Again Posted 12 August 2011, by Franz Chávez, Inter Press Service (IPS), ipsnews.net LA PAZ, Aug 12, 2011 (IPS) – Indigenous people in the eastern lowlands of Bolivia are again preparing to make the long march to La Paz, 21 years after their first such protest. [...]
Archive for August 13th, 2011
13 Aug
On the ‘right to hunt’ by a Native American vegan
On the ‘right to hunt’ by a Native American vegan Europeans and immigrants believe that meat is a critical part of the human diet, but ancient Native Americans had a much more varied diet. Linda Fisher believes her American Indian ancestors would say it’s time to stop the suffering and the killing. Posted [...]
13 Aug
Haitian Desal-A-Nation: A solar-powered water distiller
Haitian Desal-A-Nation: A solar-powered water distiller Posted 13 August 2011, by Staff, EcoFriend Facebook(Instamedia Network), facebook.com/pages/Ecofriend/129321651815 Picture Gallery: Haitian Desal-A-Nation This amazing device called the ‘Haitian Desal-A-Nation’ – which hints at desalination is what this equipment precisely performs. This device is actually a water distiller that produces potable water by evaporated salt water [...]
13 Aug
DuPont, Lucite fined $2 million over pollution equipment
DuPont, Lucite fined $2 million over pollution equipment Posted 12 August 2011, by Staff, ELF Press Office, elfpressoffice.org DuPont Co. and Lucite International have agreed to pay $2 million in fines for not upgrading pollution-control equipment when they added equipment to increase production at a sulfuric acid plant in Belle, federal officials [...]
13 Aug
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit Posted 11 August 2011, by Staff, Ecology Center, ecologycenter.org On Tuesday, August 16 come down to Books, Inc. Berkeley (1760 Fourth Street) for a special book event co-sponsored by the Ecology Center. Based on his James Beard Award-winning article, investigative food journalist [...]
13 Aug
Scientists Need To Be Less Objective, Says Ecologist, And More Political
Scientists Need To Be Less Objective, Says Ecologist, And More Political Posted 11 August 2011, by News Staff, Science 2.0 (ION Publications, LLC), science20.com If you look at the most politicized aspects of science, it is areas where scientists and science journalists became advocates and stopped being trusted guides for the public. [...]
13 Aug
Scientists explore the intersection of health, society and microbial ecology
Scientists explore the intersection of health, society and microbial ecology Ecological research on disease prevention and the human biome to be featured at ESA’s 2011 Annual Meeting in Austin Posted 12 August 2011, by Katie Kline (Ecological Society of America), EurekAlert (American Association for the Advancement of Science), eurekalert.org Public awareness about the [...]
13 Aug
Women farmers regenerate barren land in Ghana
Women farmers regenerate barren land in Ghana Statistics show 49 out of the 138 districts in Ghana ARE currently in the desert belt, which poses a threat to the national development SPECIAL REPORT BY XINHUA CORRESPONDENT Albert Oppong-Ansah Posted 12 August 2011, by Albert Oppong-Ansah, CoastWeek Newspapers Ltd., coastweek.com NANDOM, Ghana (Xinhua) – Bearing in [...]
13 Aug
Listening to Plants Guides Traditional Healing
Listening to Plants Guides Traditional Healing Posted 12 August 2011, by John Christopher Fine, The Epoch Times, theepochtimes.com When I asked the shaman about their healing methods they told me, “ask the plants,” explains Enrique Barbano Quijano. Henri, as he is called by his friends, is an herbalist and traditional healer. A former Seventh-Day Adventist [...]
