Fourteen Arrested as Community & Climate Activists March in St. Louis Posted 15 August 2011, by Sparki, It’s Getting Hot In Here, itsgettinghotinhere.org Today, hundreds marched and saw fourteen community and climate activists arrested as the Midwest Rising! Convergencetook the streets of St. Louis to protest Bank of America and Peabody Coal. The arrest action occurred [...]
Archive for August 15th, 2011
15 Aug
Ecocide – v – Living Planet
Ecocide – v – Living Planet The Trial The Supreme Court, London 30 September 2011 Posted 15 August 2011, by Ecocide is a Crime, Ecocide is a Crime (Facebook), facebook.com/Ecocide “Once upon a time people did grievous harm to the environment without fully understanding the consequences of their actions. That defence is [...]
15 Aug
Censored in Indian country: Ecocide and destruction of Peaks
Censored in Indian country: Ecocide and destruction of Peaks Posted 11 August 2011, by Brenda Norrell, The Narcosphere, narcosphere.narconews.com FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The week of action to halt the desecration of sacred San Francisco Peaks by the Snowbowl ski resort in Flagstaff, and the exposure of environmental ecocide in Indian country, as revealed at [...]
15 Aug
Seven lessons from ‘queen’ Dee
Seven lessons from ‘queen’ Dee Posted 12 August 2011, by Virginia Winder, Taranaki Daily News (Fairfax Media), stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/ Dee Turner hates weeding. In fact, the permaculture queen and organic gardener simply won’t do it. But banish any thoughts of a messy, overgrown, weed-invaded garden. Korito Organics, on the lower slopes of Mt [...]
15 Aug
Mongolia Energy Riches Attract Neighbors and Outside Interests
Mongolia Energy Riches Attract Neighbors and Outside Interests Pity poor Mongolia, bereft of fiscal resources, caught between the ambitions of its superpower neighbors, Russia and China. Posted 14 August 2011, by John C.K. Daly (OilPrice.com), M.A.D. Investment Solutions, mad-mongolia.com Who will ultimately benefit is anyone’s guess, but the country’s nascent energy and mineralogical [...]
15 Aug
Increased tropical forest growth could release carbon from the soil
Increased tropical forest growth could release carbon from the soil Posted 14 August 2011, By Barnaby Smith (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) , EurekAlert (American Association for the Advancement of Science), eurekalert.org A new study shows that as climate change enhances tree growth in tropical forests, the resulting increase in litterfall could [...]
15 Aug
Cornell to lead national environmental education program
Cornell to lead national environmental education program Posted 14 August 2011, by Staff, The Ithaca Journal (Gannett), theithacajournal.com CAMPUS WATCH EXCERPT Cornell University’s Civic Ecology Lab has been selected to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental education professional development program. The funding is around $2 million per year for five years, according to the [...]
15 Aug
BDA could kill grassland
BDA could kill grassland Posted 14 August 2011, by Jayashree Nandi (TNN), The Times of India (Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd), articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com BANGALORE: One of the few open spaces which gives you a view of the horizon is a grassland patch of Hesaraghatta. It’s a bird-watcher’s paradise and wintering grounds for migratory [...]
