By ANDREW POLLACK A small company is trying to bring to market a genetically engineered apple that does not turn brown when sliced or bruised. But it has much of the rest of the apple industry seeing red. The company, Okanagan Specialty […]
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Fracking Boom Looms in California’s Monterey Shale
from CBS 5 AROMAS – A new gold rush is on in California, but this time it’s liquid gold. Instead of strawberries and artichokes, the Central Coast is getting a growing reputation for being the next motherlode for oil. That news is […]
Continue readingEarth First! in Humboldt Blocks Sierra Pacific Sawmill Entrance
Manila, CA – 30 Earth First! activists protesting Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) logging practices rallied peacefully outside the gates of SPI’s Arcata mill on Monday, demanding a stop to the company’s logging of old-growth. “We’re here to expose SPI’s destructive logging” said […]
Continue readingVillagers in Senegal Vow to Stop Land-grabbing Biofuels Project
By Agence France-Presse Villagers from northern Senegal vowed Thursday to fight a project by Senegalese and Italian investors to produce biofuels on their land, a venture already forced to relocate once by deadly protests. “We will fight those who want to take […]
Continue readingElectric Cars and Wind Farms Spurring Ecological and Social Devastation in China
By Le Monde From the air it looks like a huge lake, fed by many tributaries, but on the ground it turns out to be a murky expanse of water, in which no fish or algae can survive. The shore is coated […]
Continue readingSpice up your local infoshop with copies of the Earth First! Primer
You can now download copies of the newest Earth First! Primer for outreach and tabling in your community, or on your adventures gallivanting across the countryside. We currently have editions of the EF! Primer in English, Spanish and Greek. We are looking […]
Continue readingThe WE’RE F**KED Weather Report
the following weather summary for July is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Summary Information July 2012: hottest month on record for contiguous United States Drought expands to cover nearly 63% of the Lower 48; wildfires consume 2 million acres […]
Continue readingKeystone XL’s Beetlemania
by Sarah Laskow / The American Prospect The carcass of a passenger pigeon weighed in at exactly the size they preferred. Dead prairie chickens did, too. They aren’t so picky about the carcasses they bury: mammals will do as well as birds, […]
Continue readingBlack Bear “Management” Hearing Aug 29
Consider coming out to that event to speak in defense of the bears, or to join us for a demonstration outside. Either way, make sure you contact them at wrnccomments@ncwildlife.org and the executive director, Gordon S. Myers 919-707-0151. His individual e-mail is […]
Continue readingDoes “Anti-Occupy” Law End U.S. Right to Protest?
[Cross-Posted from The Washington Times by Paul A. Samakow. See comments below regarding the credibility of this article.] Thanks to almost zero media coverage, few of us know about a law passed this past March, severely limiting our right to protest. The […]
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