We’ll meet you in the streets! It ain’t just the weather heatin’ up. Eco-action camps, radical gathering and activist mobilizations are going off this month all across the globe. So get out your calendar, dust off your hitch-hiking thumb, or train maps.. […]
Continue readingTel Aviv University Researcher Says Plants Can See, Smell, Feel, and Taste
from Phys.org In his new book What a Plant Knows (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and his articles in Scientific American, Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, Director of TAU’s Manna Center for Plant Biosciences, says that the discovery of similarities between plants and humans is […]
Continue readingEF! News, Litha 2012, Copy and Destroy!
Hey, all you wily Earth First!ers with a knack for photocopy machines (using them, that is—not smashing them.) Here’s a PDF of the latest edition of the EF! News. Including: recent dispatches from the eco-wars, an updated directory of environmental action groups, […]
Continue readingOutlaw Matriarch of the Fox Mountain Pack Ordered Dead by Feds
by Russ McSpadden The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service has ordered the killing of an alpha female Mexican gray wolf for crimes against the cattle industry. She is accused of being the ringleader of a six member pack that has killed four […]
Continue readingAs American As Genetically Engineered Apple Pie
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 […]
Continue readingFracking 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 readingEF! Climbing Camp – Fall 2012 in Ohio
September 22-28 EF! Climbers Guild will be hosting a climbing camp this fall in southern Ohio. This is the first time a Guild camp has been organized in the Midwest and we are really excited about it! At the EF! National Rondezvous […]
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 […]
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