Environment

Sign up for Surviving Climate Change Roundtable 6/27-6/29: Producing Less and Enjoying it More

WHEN: Fri eve - Sun aft , Jun 27-29, 2008
WHERE: Webster University, 420 E. Lockwood Ave., St. Louis, MO 63119

The effects of climate change, peak oil and toxic production are here. We know it every time we see news of weather disasters and disappearing species. We feel it every time we buy gas. We hear it every time a child uses an asthma inhaler.

Solutions are here, also. But meaningful changes are being stubbornly ignored by government, big business and big enviro:

  • A genuine effort at reducing greenhouse gases would require food to be grown within 100 miles of where it is eaten.
  • A serious climate change program would stop funding the 800 military bases which ensure a continuous flow of oil to the US.
  • The most energy efficient homes are homes that have no heating system at all.
  • The most energy efficient cars are those that are replaced by trains, buses, bicycles or feet.

Panels & Presenters Schedule

 

Mock the Apocalypse From a Stylish New Houseboat

Worried about melting ice caps and encroaching oceans? Take a nod from Noah and ride out the deluge in a floating home.

 

 

Publisher: 
Wired

Open Letter To My Fellow Apes Regarding Civilization

Are we condemning ourselves to never knowing who we are?

Greetings my ape brethren.
As I write, some of you are foraging out in the jungles; some are
wandering about starving on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, having
been orphaned by the heartless slaughter of your parents by the apes
that walk on two legs; and still others are stuck in traffic on the 5
in Los Angeles. I realize that you are all very busy, but I think it
may be time to share various insights amongst one another. My breed
of ape has nearly succeeded in choking the rest of you out of
existence. While we go forth and multiply, polluting our world and

June 25 and 26: North America 2030: An Environmental Outlook, CEC, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

June 25 and 26: North America 2030: An Environmental Outlook, CEC, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (public invited) Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America Fifteenth Regular Session of the CEC Council and meetings of the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) 25–26 June 2008 Government Conference Center 2 Rideau Street Ottawa, Canada

Link to Program of Public Events here:

http://www.cec.org/files/pdf/COUNCIL/Council-JPAC-Program-23apr08_en.pdf

Date: 
06/24/2008 - 8:01am - 06/26/2008 - 12:00am

MAYDAY ALERT! -- Terror Drills Could Go Live!

An impressive array of military men join Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, in issuing a false flag alert for May 1-8, when the Bush administration will be conducting nationwide terror exercises.

MAYDAY ALERT! -- Terror Drills Could Go Live!

By Dr. James H. Fetzer
Major William B. Fox
Captain Eric H. May
SFC Donald Buswell

The name "false flag" comes from the old pirate's ruse of flying another country's flag during an attack, thereby shifting blame for the attack to a party that had nothing to do with it. Governments use false flag attacks to push their nations into dictatorship or war. As military experts, we fear that national terror drills, scheduled for May 1-8, could be used to camouflage a false flag attack in the United States.

Strategic Signals

Help break the cycle of mass destruction

Footprints for Peace (Australia), with the active support of the French network for nuclear phase-out, will walk from London to Geneva (April 26 - July 18) via France for a nuclear-free world.

To all concerned people,

Footprints for Peace (Australia), with the active support of the French network for nuclear phase-out, will walk from London to Geneva (April 26 - July 18) via France for a nuclear-free world.

You are warmly invited to participate in this international event for some steps or for the whole journey.

CHERNOBYL DAY 22ND ANNIVERSARY SATURDAY 26th APRIL 9.30AM - 10.30AM
BATTERSEA PARK PEACE PAGODA, BATTERSEA PARK, LONDON SW11
CEREMONY TO REMEMBER THE VICTIMS OF CHERNOBYL & THE SUFFERING CAUSED TO THE PEOPLE & LAND.

If we want to save the planet, we need a five-year freeze on biofuels

It used to be a matter of good intentions gone awry. Now it is plain fraud. The governments using biofuel to tackle global warming know that it causes more harm than good. But they plough on regardless. In theory, fuels made from plants can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by cars and trucks. Plants absorb carbon as they grow - it is released again when the fuel is burned. By encouraging oil companies to switch from fossil plants to living ones, governments on both sides of the Atlantic claim to be "decarbonising" our transport networks.

Publisher: 
The Guardian

U.S. FOREST SERVICE FIELDING FLEET OF DRONES

Law Enforcement Wants “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” Hovering Above Forests

Washington, DC — The U.S. Forest Service has purchased pilot-less aircraft to provide day and night photo reconnaissance for its law enforcement program, according to agency records released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The two “unmanned aerial vehicles,” or drones, may represent the beginnings of wider conversion of military robotic technology for civilian uses.

The two “Sky Seers” were obtained by the Forest Service on December 10, 2007 at a cost of $100,000 from Chang Industries, Inc. of La Verne, California. The package includes one “day version” and one “night version” of the drone, together with a “Pan/tilt thermal camera” to record heat signatures at night.

5 Days Left to Stop the Bombs!

We are here to tell the DOE and the federal government that we don't want to spend more money on new nuclear weapons or the current popular term WMD or weapons of mass destruction.

To Mr. Ted Wyka,

My name is Jim Toren I am from Amelia Ohio I am writing to you over the Draft Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on Complex Transformation at the Y12 facility in Oakridge TN. I attended the public hearings on February 26th but so many people signed up to speak I didn't have a chance to have my objection to go on record.

Four Activists Shut Down Bank of America for Fossil Fools Day Action

[See other Fossil Fools Day actions nation-wide at US Indymedia: indymedia.us/en/2008/04/30851.shtml]

On Tuesday April 1, at about 8:40am, four activists took direct action against the Bank of America in Copley Square, Boston, by locking themselves to the front door to protest the banks funding of coal power in the US. The action was done with support from Rising Tide North America, the Rainforest Action Network, and the Energy Action Coalition.

The four activists: Elise Ansel, Adrienne Naylor, Laila Murad, and Candace Bollinger used large, cylindrical tubes to lock their arms together, as Bollinger was locked directly to the door-handle of the bank with a bicycle u-lock around her neck. Protesters on both sides of the street held up banners, chanted, sang songs, and yelled encouragement for their four comrades, while bearing the strong wind that ripped through the streets.

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