Posted in devastation, fascism/corporatism, health, peak food on Sep 8th, 2009 No Comments »
By Chris Hedges, reprinted from truthdig.com
Our most potent political weapon is food. If we take back our agriculture, if we buy and raise produce locally, we can begin to break the grip of corporations that control a food system as fragile, unsafe and destined for collapse as our financial system. If we continue to allow [...] Read more »
Posted in act local, devastation, sane words on Jul 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Social change comes down to communication. Great efforts have resulted in fine books, stories for films and books, and there have been some wonderful speeches. But it must really start and end with the conversation wherein the top topic is the issues of the day approached honestly and without fear.
When people talk about a [...] Read more »
Posted in devastation, fascism/corporatism, saving seeds, water on May 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Vandana Shiva says industrial agriculture has left Indian farmers indebted and destitute, and explains how to stem the tide of suicides.
Last month, the world got a glimpse of an epidemic that has hit India in the last decade when news reports alerted readers to the suicides of 1,500 farmers in the Indian [...] Read more »
Posted in devastation on Dec 17th, 2008 No Comments »
29 really scary things, that we as a species need to act upon, now – article from IntelDaily.
Time is running out and using denial to escape these harsh realities is no longer an option.
According to a Washington Post article in 1998, a poll was conducted by the New York Museum of Natural History which found [...] Read more »
Posted in devastation, heirarchies, news on Oct 31st, 2008 No Comments »
In America, there’s a lot of hoopla going on right now about the upcoming election. American citizens are given several choices for a presidential leader, and must choose the one that they feel represents them the most. Then a new dude gets elected and we’re all happy and get on with the next four years [...] Read more »
Posted in devastation, water on Oct 27th, 2008 No Comments »
By Kari Lydersen, article on alternet.
From the mining of raw materials to energy production to the manufacturing process itself, industry guzzles tons of water.
…..The rampant waste of freshwater for general public use — lawn watering, the creation of suburban fake lakes, excessive bathing and household washing — has been well documented, as has the politically [...] Read more »
Posted in devastation on Oct 7th, 2008 No Comments »
by Alister Doyle, reprinted from commondreams.org
A quarter of the world’s mammals are threatened with extinction, an international survey showed on Monday, and the destruction of habitats and hunting are the major causes.
The Caspian Seal (Pusa caspica) moved from vulnerable to endangered. Its population has declined by 90% in the last 100 years due to unsustainable [...] Read more »
Posted in climate chaos, devastation on Aug 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
Julia Whitty writes on Alternet about the disappearing sea ice of Antarctica, and the impact this is having on penguins.
Hiking back into radio range, we hear from Ron Naveen, counting southern giant petrel nests on the other side of the island. It’s terrible here, he reports, just awful. At first I picture him befouled by [...] Read more »
Posted in climate chaos, devastation on Jun 19th, 2008 No Comments »
The floods in Iowa have spurred James Howard Kunstler to talk about ‘Katrina in slow motion’.
Iowa in 2008 will be an even slower-motion disaster than Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Beyond the troubles of 25,000 people who have lost all their material possessions is a world whose grain reserves stand at record lows. The crop losses [...] Read more »
Posted in devastation, toxic life, water on Jun 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
How U.S. farming policy leads to ‘dead zones,’ huge marine areas where nothing can grow, by Kent Garber.
Each spring, the cycle of death begins anew. Nitrogen and phosphorus, leached from fertilizer, pass from farmland into streams, from streams into rivers—the Mississippi, the Potomac, the Susquehanna—and then, finally, into some of the country’s great bodies of [...] Read more »
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the death march of the penguins by admin on August 5th, 2008
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Corporate Agriculture Is to Blame for the Hundreds of Thousands of Farmer Suicides in India by admin on May 22nd, 2009
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no denying the cold, hard facts by disciv on January 2nd, 2008
"On Sunday 16 September 2007, the sea ice covering the Arctic ocean melted back to a record low point.
more on food: stop the multinationals by admin on April 22nd, 2008
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Starting the Conversation on Our Survival by admin on July 10th, 2009
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