Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
One of the biggest stories in the UK at present is the relationship between democracy and the police – or as it has been expressed several times by Nick Hardwick, chairman of the Independent Police Complaints Commission – the police needed to remember that they were “servants, not masters” of the public.
For all those Wall Street types sitting around and waiting for a compliance market to bust open, this ruling means that the government has a green light to go farther and faster in regulating carbon emissions then ever before.
Bush-era plan to expand offshore drilling in sensitive areas in Alaska was rejected today by a federal appeals court.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report on the potential impacts of climate change on regional U.S. air quality. The report concludes that CO2 and other greenhouse gases are a threat to human health.
M S Swaminathan, ‘The Father of Economic Ecology’ is on record as saying that GMOs shouldn’t be grown in or marketed to the developed world, where they aren’t necessary, but should be created for the developing world, to meet the food needs of large populations living in poverty and to allow such nations to develop a reliable food surplus that they can sell to the developed world.
Some say that Somalian pirates are out to help save the water from illegal dumping by Western nations. Are these green buccaneers or just men out to make a profit?
Canada has played a waiting game for the past several months, anticipating a joint cap-and-trade system with the USA. Now it appears the two countries will be dealing with greenhouse gases on their own.
What’s the Pope been up to since the installation of solar panels at The Vatican? Not much, it seems.
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