March 2012
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‘Genocide’ risk in Brazil despite UN push to end racism
Calls are growing to stop ‘a real situation of genocide’ inside Brazil’s Amazon, as the UN marks International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Experts warn Brazil’s Awá tribe will face extinction unless more is done to protect their land rights, which are being abused by illegal loggers and cattle...
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Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’ Goes Nuclear With... →
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“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” is going nuclear.
The Nuclear Energy Institute, representing companies including Entergy Corp. (ETR) and Southern Co. (SO), will use the Emmy- award winning Comedy Central show starting today for an advertising campaign showing the value of atomic power a year after the triple meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant.
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US Navy Sails 1,200 Miles On Algae Biofuel →
letterstomycountry:
Newt Gingrich must be totes surprised. From TGDaily:
According to Solazyme, the U.S. Navy Frigate fleet ship USS Ford just sailed from its homeport in Everett, Wash., down to San Diego using 25,000 gallons of the company’s Soladiesel blended in even proportions with F-76 military diesel.
Solazyme didn’t say exactly how far the trip was, but charts from the National...
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90 Degrees in Winter: This Is What Climate Change... →
It wasn’t just Chicago, of course. A huge swath of the nation simmered under bizarre heat. International Falls, Minnesota, the “icebox of the nation,” broke its old temperature records—by twenty-two degrees, which according to weather historians may be the largest margin ever for any station with a century’s worth of records. Winner, South Dakota, reached 94 degrees on the second-to-last day of...
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rockyanderson2012:
Rocky Anderson on V-RADIO
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Laboratory Equipment: Greenhouse Gases Find a Home... →
laboratoryequipment:
A new study by researchers at MIT shows that there is enough capacity in deep saline aquifers in the United States to store at least a century’s worth of carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s coal-fired powerplants. Though questions remain about the economics of systems to capture and store…
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80 Items You Can Compost →
Home composting isn’t just for farmers anymore! The practice is becoming increasingly popular among urban environmentalists who are eager to cut their landfill contributions: from apartment dwellers growing gardens on top of NYC roofing, to folks who participate in their local municipal compost program, to homeowners looking to turn their backyards into a teeny tiny sustainable city farms....
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Air pollution from fracking sites elevate risk of... →
socialuprooting:
from Deep Green Resistance News Service
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“More and more, Republicans are telling us that gasoline would be cheap and jobs...”
– “Natural Born Drillers” - Paul Krugman (via climateadaptation)
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New Chevron Oil Leak Detected Off the Coast of... →
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somepolitics:
Just five months after Chevron lost its drilling rights for causing the largest oil spill in recent memory off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, they’ve gone and done it again. According to Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP), Chevron has reported that a new leak of indeterminate size has been detected near the site of last November’s spill — and it...
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New Chevron Oil Leak Detected Off the Coast of... →
Just five months after Chevron lost its drilling rights for causing the largest oil spill in recent memory off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, they’ve gone and done it again. According to Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP), Chevron has reported that a new leak of indeterminate size has been detected near the site of last November’s spill — and it could present a a major setback for the U.S....
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“A Green president would invest in wind, solar and geothermal, emphasize...”
– After Fukushima, Jill Stein calls for 100% renewable energy economy
(via socialuprooting)
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President Obama has given approval to Shell to... →
socialuprooting:
This summer, exploratory drilling will begin in the Arctic Ocean unless we stop it. The Arctic must be off limits to oil drilling, for the simple reason that a spill would be impossible to clean up there. The Arctic is home to polar bears, walrus, bowhead whales and other endangered and highly sensitive wildlife; oil drilling in its remote, ice-choked waters would carry...
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