Is the message about sustainable agriculture finally breaking through? Watch this Chipotle-sponsored video, “Cultivate a Better World”, with a soundtrack by Willy Nelson(singing Radiohead!), and see what you think.
U.N. water report focuses on California failures
August 31, 2011 By 1 Comment
As a package of “human right to water” bills proceeds through the California’s legislature, the state’s failure to provide clean, safe drinking water to its residents has captured the attention of the United Nations in a special report.
Update: Bill McKibben on the tar sands pipeline protest
August 30, 2011 By 2 Comments
Bill McKibben updates us on the protest in front of the White House, now in its second week. There were 70 more arrests today, including actress Darryl Hannah.
Bill McKibben’s tar sands update – hurricane edition
August 27, 2011 By 4 Comments
After one week of action and arrests in front of the White House, the activists fighting the dirty oil tar sands pipeline are taking a break while Hurricane Irene batters the east coast. But they’ll be back next week, pushing President Obama to stand up for the principals he ran on – including doing what we can to fight global warming.
Does Mitt Romney believe in climate change? Not any more…
August 25, 2011 By 5 Comments
Mitt Romney had been one of the few sane GOP Presidential candidates on the subject of climate change. In fact, only one other – ex-Utah Governor John Huntsman – acknowledged climate change was real and human-caused.
Not any more.
Fishing or conservation? Fisherman call for Wal-Mart boycott.
August 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Climate causes wars
August 25, 2011 By 4 Comments
One of the key questions of our time: If there is climate change, how bad would the effects be?
A new study shows that the modest disruption of the El Niño global climate cycle doubles the chance of war breaking out.
Arrests continue in White House tar sands protest
August 24, 2011 By 6 Comments
Nearly 300 environmental activists have been arrested outside the White House, including author Bill McKibben, founder of 350.0rg. They are calling on President Obama to block an oil pipeline that would dramatically increase US carbon output from dirty Canadian tar sands oil.
Keystone XL tar sands pipeline a small part of a bigger strategy
August 24, 2011 By 2 Comments
By Roger Fox I doubt the Keystone project is even a real long term goal by TransCanada,. Certainly in the big picture Keystone is only a single chapter in a much larger book. If you read this diary you will risk information overload, you will be offered numerous disparate data points that at first glance may [...]
DC earthquake shuts down nuclear power plant
August 23, 2011 By 8 Comments
How safe are American nuclear power plants?
Today’s DC earthquake was dangerously close to the design limit for a nearby power plant… and one out of four backup generators failed. That’s really not good enough…
