Friday Linkfest on Monday, Crazy! Good News American President-elect Barack Obama vows to combat climate change. UN climate chief applauds. Top US companies of the likes of Nike, Starbucks and Sun Microsystems are urging Congress to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and promote investment in renewable energy. California's Bay Area ... keep reading
Written by Alina Beloussova last month, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Deforestation, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Organic, War
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins The coastal town in Somalia's breakaway region of Puntland is at the epicentre of an explosion of piracy: attacks have increased dramatically, with more than 60 vessels hijacked so far this year. They include the MS Vaina, a Ukrainian tanker with a ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts last month, about War
By Steven Freeland, Associate Professor of International Law, University of Western Sydney and a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court, The Hague. On November 5, 2001, the United Nations declared November 6 of each year as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and ... keep reading
Written by Steven Freeland last month, about Environmental Disasters, Philosophy & Religion, Politics, Protest, War
At last report, floods have left 70,000 homeless in southern Chad and neighboring Cameroon. This is in addition to the thousands already displaced since seasonal rains began in August. Forecasts indicate the rain will continue until the end of November, making this one of the longest rainy seasons on ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in October, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, Health, Politics, Population, War
Peak oil is here and we are facing the consequences now, is the conclusion of a recent report (pdf) from security think-tank Centre for a New American Security. ‘Peak Oil: A Survey of Security Concerns' shows how dwindling oil supplies threaten the entire American way of life, and pose a ... keep reading
Written by Jeremy Williams in October, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Politics, War (1 comment)
The group called Chicago wrote this line in 1969, the same year the U.S. Senate ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In response to the treaty, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) moved the figurative hands on the Environmental Doomsday Clock back to 11:50 p.m., giving the ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in October, about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Health, Nuclear, Politics, War
By Peter Montague of Rachel’s Democracy & Health News[Rachel's introduction: The 1987 definition of sustainability went like this: "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." That was a fine definition, but now ... keep reading
Written by Peter Montague in September, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Nuclear, Solar, War (1 comment)
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Like much of what happens on the world stage these days, this expedition—and the diplomatic flap it caused—was really about oil. By some estimates, 25 percent of the world’s remaining fossil-fuel reserves are buried under the Arctic Ocean. With the ice ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts in September, about Coal & Oil, Politics, War
Franklin D. Roosevelt said "Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off." A Democrat, Roosevelt dragged the World from the jaws of the Great Depression and was ... keep reading
Written by John P. in September, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Politics, War (1 comment)
Climate change, it seems, will force migration on a scale never seen before. A few days ago I was in the pleasant surrounds of the British Library where climate luminaries discussed and debated an issue that is increasingly urgent. Professor Norman Myers, who had concluded in 2005, that climate change ... keep reading
Written by Tan Copsey in May, about Events, Politics, War, Weather
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