January 2012
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Groups Demand That Navy Change Sonar Testing →
solitaryforager:
Whales, other creatures imperiled by Navy’s insensitivity
Environmental groups and some Indian tribes, represented by Earthjustice, have gone to court to get the U.S. Navy to change the way it trains off the West Coast to avoid harming whales, dolphins and porpoises.
The Navy currently has a permit from the National Marine Fisheries Service, allowing it to train from Northern...
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After 12 years of battling to stop Monsanto's... →
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“Vegan alternatives are not inherently better for animals or the planet. Pleather...”
– Vegans miss the larger point (via voorwaarts)
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Random Acts of Chaos: No Frack Friday Tomorrow!... →
godhatesarkansas:
Food and Water Watch and GASLAND needs you to call OBAMA: Make a call for No Frack Friday: 888-925-7006 The national movement against fracking needs Obama’s attention. We cannot allow him to move forward with fracking for natural gas. We must demonstrate our power by…
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Some facts about Fiji Water →
leftish:
“A very wealthy California couple, L.A. couple, Lynda and Stewart Resnick bought the company in 2004. They own Teleflora. They own POM Wonderful.
And they’re among the largest tree nut farmers in the country. So they’re not small. And they actually have turbocharged the marketing of Fiji Water. It was a glamorous brand when they bought it. It’s now a universal brand. It’s a...
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Urgent action needed to prevent England's rivers... →
cultureofresistance:
New report by Environment Agency says river levels may fall by 80% as a result of climate change and the growing population
Britain’s rivers are drying up. Unless emergency measures are adopted, some of our finest waterways could be reduced to trickles over the next few decades.
This is the stark warning of an Environment Agency study into the predicted impact of climate...
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“Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last...”
– Loggers ‘burned Amazon tribe girl alive’
This ruined my night.
(via thenoobyorker)
Jesus Christ.
(via fearandwar)
This is what evil looks like.
(via frombaghdadwithlove)
There are few things in the world this horrible. No matter what the outcome of this tragedy is, justice will never be...
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Fracking will poison New York's drinking water,... →
cultureofresistance:
givemesomefuckingwaffles:
I live here and I’m totally cool with it. I literally live in the town they plan on doing it in.
What good could happen if they do it?
more jobs
getting natural gas
Boosting the economy of NY
What bad could happen if they do it?
They could possibly mess up.
We don’t stop drilling oil because there have been oil spills, do we?
You know...
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Fuel Fix » Pipeline inspector says President... →
dialectics8:
A former pipeline inspector said the government should not approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline because of shoddy work by the company has plagued TransCanada’s first Keystone pipeline.
Mike Klink of Auburn, Ind.., who worked as an inspector for the first Keystone pipeline, said TransCanada consistently cut corners during the construction process that has lead to more...
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Shell Oil refuses to clean up Nigerian oil spill →
paxamericana:
(h/t)
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“If you look at the worst-case consequences of climate change, those pretty much...”
– Tim DeChristopher,
What Love Looks Like
(via cultureofresistance)
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WatchDIRT! The Movie–directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow–takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility–from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. The opening scenes of the film dive into the wonderment of the soil. Made from the same elements as the stars, plants and animals, and us,...
