World’s Largest Wine Corporation Threatens Sacred Pomo Redwood Forest Posted 30 August 2011, by Ahni, Intercontinental Cry, intercontinentalcry.org The world’s largest wine corporation, Spain’s Grupo Codorniu, is trying to get permission from the state of California to clear-cut more than 1,900 acres of redwood forest in Sonoma County for that most decadent of [...]
Archive for August 30th, 2011
30 Aug
An Animal Area in the Human Brain
An Animal Area in the Human Brain Part of our brain is dedicated to reacting to animals. Posted 29 August 2011, by Edyta Zielinska, The Scientist, the-scientist.com Researchers showed that only the right-brain side of the amygdala is involved in processing images of animals—in terms or fear, aversion, or affection—highlighting the importance [...]
30 Aug
How a human being can “disappear”
How a human being can “disappear” Posted 30 August 2011, by Jim McDonald, Amnesty International, Posted by Email – associated website: www.amnesty.org/ These people haven’t really “disappeared” – their governments know exactly what happened to them. When authorities in Sri Lanka realized they couldn’t erase the published stories that criticized their government, they [...]
30 Aug
Ancient America: Tiwanaku
Ancient America: Tiwanaku Posted 28 August 2011, by Ojibwa for Native American Netroots, Daily Kos, dailykos.com While the Inka are the best-known pre-Columbian civilization in South America, there were other earlier and longer-lasting highly developed civilizations. Tiwanaku (also spelled Tiahuanaco and Tiahuanacu) is generally recognized by archaeologists as an important precursor of the [...]
30 Aug
Semper Fi: Always Faithful– Documenting a Fight for Environmental Justice
Semper Fi: Always Faithful – Documenting a Fight for Environmental Justice Posted 26 August 2011, by Marcia G. Yerman, cultureID, cultureid.com “There are over 130 contaminated military sites in the United states. This makes the Department of Defense the nation’s largest polluter.” These words stand as the most salient message of the documentary “Semper Fi: Always [...]
30 Aug
Nature Reserve In Jordan Is Growing Organic
Nature Reserve In Jordan Is Growing Organic Posted 28 August 2011, by Arwa Aburawa, Green Prophet, greenprophet.com Following Qatar’s plans to build 1,400 organic farms, comes the announcement that a Jordanian nature reserve will be growing organic crops and medicinal herbs. The farm at the Mujib Biosphere Reserve is spread over 10 dunums [...]
30 Aug
KZN coast mining fears
KZN coast mining fears Posted 29 August 2011, by Tony Carnie, The Mercury (Independent OnLine (Independent Newspapers Ltd.)), iol.co.za/mercury THE FUTURE of the marine ecology of the entire northern KwaZulu-Natal coast could be placed in jeopardy by plans to scour the sea for heavy minerals and gemstones, say critics of the proposed venture. [...]
30 Aug
Indigenous activists gain momentum in Bolivia
Indigenous activists gain momentum in Bolivia A 526km march brings attention to Evo Morales’ hypocritical stance on the environment and indigenous sovereignty. Posted 29 August 2011, by Stanislaw Czaplicki Cabezas, Al Jazeera, english.aljazeera.net “We can’t understand that an indigenous government is violating our indigenous rights,” said Fernando Vargas, pulling together the complexity – and perplexity [...]
30 Aug
Unity College Announces $10 Million Gift
Unity College Announces $10 Million Gift Posted 23 August 2011, by Staff, Unity College, unity.edu Unity, ME – August 23, 2011 – Unity College announced a gift of $10 million for unrestricted endowment from an anonymous donor today. The gift is unprecedented in the small college’s 45-year history and will more than triple [...]
