by Amazon Watch While the Brazilian Government prepares to host the Rio+20 United Nations Earth Summit, 3,000 kilometers north in the country’s Amazon region indigenous peoples, farmers, fisherfolk, activists and local residents affected by the construction of the massive Belo Monte Dam […]
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Complexities of Collapse: Trade Routes and Resource Exhaustion in Mayan Civilization
by Jacqueline Howard Maya history–and the civilization’s “collapse”–continue to occupy the minds of archeologists. Some research points to a series of droughts as playing an important role in the Maya demise. Other researchers propose the ancient Maya were less resilient to fight […]
Continue readingOccupy the Biotech Food Empire; Monsanto and Friends Get Interrupted
by Steve Annear / BostInno.com Dressed in contamination suits and waving around boxes of children’s cereal they say are pumped with Genetically Modified Organisms, protesters planted themselves outside of the International BIO Convention Monday to fight against a week-long meeting of mega-companies […]
Continue readingThousands Blockade Ski Resort Development in Bulgaria
Dimitar Kyosemarliev/REUTERS Police detained nine activists after over 1,500 people blocked a major Sofia intersection late on Thursday for a second day in a row in a protest against the controversial changes. Chanting “We want nature, not concrete” and “We want veto […]
Continue readingXena, Eco-Warrior Princess, Pleads Guilty to Environmental Trespass
By Christie D’Zurilla / La Times Lucy Lawless did it, and she isn’t sorry she did it. Of course, the “Spartacus” actress hopes her conviction on trespassing charges won’t hurt her career in the future by preventing her from entering countries that […]
Continue readingActual directions for the 2012 EF! Round River Rendezvous
Well, they were a bit slow in coming. But here they are. Real directions to “The Ultimate RRR site”… We’ll see you there!
Continue readingThousands Protest At Ohio Statehouse Against Fracking
Thousands from around the state traveled to downtown Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday to send Gov. John Kasich a message about fracking. They want fracking to stop. “The long term impacts on our environment are going to be devastating.” Members of Don’t Frack […]
Continue readingBrazilian Farmers Win Big Against Monsanto
Crossposted from Reader Supported News Five million Brazilian farmers have taken on US based biotech company Monsanto through a lawsuit demanding return of about 6.2 billion euros taken as royalties from them. The farmers are claiming that the powerful company has unfairly […]
Continue readingEmerging Market for Natural Gas
As if you needed another reason to hate Shell Travel Centers America (TA) and Shell are teaming up to offer Natural Gas at the fuel pumps coming in 2013. Shell came up with the brilliant idea because of how cheap and easy […]
Continue readingHow Can You Measure Income Inequality? Count The Trees
by Hatty Lee/ Color Lines Turns out there’s a direct correlation between the number of trees a neighborhood has and its monetary wealth — and we can see how this dynamic plays out in space. Environmental journalist Tim De Chant mapped it all […]
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