Earth Minute: System Change not Climate Change in Venezuela
See below for transcript. Transcript I am recording this week’s Earth Minute from the Venezuelan Island of Margarita. The Venezuelan government has assembled hundreds of...
View ArticleEarth Watch: Tom Goldtooth from the Venezuelan Social PreCOP
Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network and Grassroots Global Justice delegate to Venezuela, spoke to Margaret Prescod (KPFK) from the Social PreCOP on Margarita...
View ArticleUS pushing tar sands into Europe despite EU proposed block
IPS reports on US efforts to push tar sands oil into the EU despite resistance in Europe. Newly publicized internal documents suggest that U.S. negotiators are working to permanently block a landmark...
View ArticleStudy finds U.S. citizens want to see government action on climate change
For U.S. politicians, taking a solid stance on climate change is like the kiss of death. They avoid it like bad breath. However, a new study shows that more than half of the voters surveyed want to see...
View ArticleBiomass unspoken driver of Oregon logging spike
The AP recently reported that timber ‘harvest’ last year was at its highest since 2006; 4 Billion board feet. This marks a steady increase over the past 4 years. The state Department of Forestry...
View ArticleEarth Minute: Anne Petermann on Neonics
Neonicotinoids, or Neonics, an insecticide nerve poison widely used in homes, gardens and farms, have been found to be 5,000 to 10,000 times more toxic than DDT, and are contributing to shocking...
View ArticleBreaking: Leaked document reveals US-EU trade agreement threatens public...
WASHINGTON D.C. – A draft chapter of the U.S-EU trade agreement leaked today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) reveals public health and food safety could be at risk, according...
View ArticleA question of local bans: Two accounts of the South Portland, Maine block on...
Last week, there was quite a bit of coverage on the ordinance passed by the South Portland, Maine city council, blocking Canadian tar sands oil from its port. The measure would prevent ExxonMobil from...
View ArticleEarth Minute: Anne Petermann on Green Products Re-Branding Genetic Engineering
Earth Minute is written and recorded by GJEP Executive Director Anne Petermann in partnership with KPFK. Listen to Anne Petermann’s Earth Minute for this week: Transcript Synthetic biology, or...
View ArticleAir Pollution Increasing Around Tar Sands
According to Think Progress, a recent study by the Alberta government shows air pollution rising in those areas where tar sands oil is mined and processed. Such evidence of rising air pollution adds to...
View ArticleEarth Watch: Tom Goldtooth from the Venezuelan Social PreCOP
Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network and Grassroots Global Justice delegate to Venezuela, spoke to Margaret Prescod (KPFK) from the Social PreCOP on Margarita...
View Article10 million gallons of toxic wastewater evicts Mexican schoolchildren
On Climate Progress, Ari Phillips reports that the Buenavista Copper Mine let more than 24 hours pass before reporting a massive spill in north Mexico. They could no longer deny the incident when...
View ArticleAn Activist and Photojournalist’s Thoughts on Ferguson, MO
Orin Langelle, director of Langelle Photography, a project of the Global Justice Ecology Project, has been shooting images from the front lines of international social and climate justice events and...
View ArticlePrinceton study determines U.S. is no longer a democracy
A study straight out of Princeton University found that the United States of America is no longer a democracy. The country’s government is not even a republic, as its constitution claims. According to...
View ArticleForests in three major U.S. parks facing extinction
A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization found that forests in Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Glacier National Park are facing annihilation...
View ArticleSystem change is the only solution to climate change
According to a recent article on Common Dreams by Sarah Lazare, hundreds of grassroots organizations around the world are uniting through the 2014 United Nations Climate Summit to put the spotlight on...
View ArticleAmazon tribe captures illegal loggers, strips them of their clothing
Fed up? That’s one way to put it. With no help from their government, the Ka’apor tribe of indigenous Brazilians have taken the control of the fight against illegal logging in and near their lands. In...
View ArticleAsthma-related ER visits on the rise
A new study out of Connecticut shows that the rates for the hospitalization of asthma has increased substantially in the last few years. In fact, in the Constitution State alone, asthma rates increased...
View ArticleCan I get a cup of genetically modified coffee?
An article on Bloomberg Business Week reveals that scientists have cracked the genetic code for robusta, the coffee plant that provides the java for about one third of the world’s early morning...
View ArticleA Real Solution in NYC? Flood Wall Street
So many climate-related events are occurring in NYC this week, as Biofuelwatch co-director Dr. Rachel Smolker points out. However, in a recent post on Huff Post Green, she also acknowledges that many...
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