NewsRack: flenvcenter/Sustainability_Independent

Does Morality Matter in Saving the Planet? - TreeHugger

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Does Morality Matter in Saving the Planet?

PHOTOS: 12 Of Greenpeace's Summer Protests From Around The World - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Huffington Post — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

From Mexico City to Malta, Berlin to Hong Kong, Greenpeace created impressive protests against environmental injustices this summer. Protesters wore hazardous waste uniforms, drenched themselves...

EPA Climate Change Regulations Increasing, Not As Strong As Action By Congress Would Be - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Yahoo! News — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will roll out more regulations on greenhouse gases and other pollution to help fight climate change, but they will not...

Chimpanzees In Africa Outwit Human Hunters, Disarm Traps - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

BBC — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Across Africa, people often lay snare traps to catch bushmeat, killing or injuring chimps and other wildlife. But a few chimps living in the rainforests...

Organic Food Is Healthier, Tastier, Better For Environment: WSU Study - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Grist — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Does growing food organically really matter? Supporters of conventional agriculture say that organic farming is little more than a fad -- and that organic produce...

Headlines for September 3, 2010 - Democracy Now!

mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Another Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf of Mexico, BP: Denial of Drilling Permit Threatens Gulf Coast Claims, Calls Grow for Offshore Drilling Ban, US Accused of Killing 10 Afghan Civilians, Main Afghan Bank Faces Collapse, Slain US Army Chaplain Is First to Die in Combat Since Vietnam War, Israeli, Palestinian Leaders Agree to Further Talks, Settlers: "We Are Building" All Over West Bank, Companies Passing on More Healthcare Costs to Employees, 4 Accused of Coercing 400 Thai Workers into Forced Labor, LA Garment Factory to Pay Workers Unpaid Overtime, Allow Monitor, Environmentalist Sentenced to 4 Months for Accepting Facebook Friend Request

Why Israel Imprisoned My Best Friend - Commondreams.org Views

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

by Mohammed Khatib

When I was a boy I was still allowed to travel in Israel. I went to the beach and swam in the sea, something that most Palestinian children living in the West Bank today can only dream of. Israel has been restricting movement more and more over the years. We Palestinians were banned from traveling to Israel, the land where many of our parents were born. And now I find I cannot leave the West Bank.

Supporters of justice and peace should get behind Canada's Gaza flotilla ship - rabble.ca - News for the rest of us

rabble staff — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

A spectre is haunting the Harper government and its pro-Israel allies. It's been dubbed CBG and it stands for Canadian Boat to Gaza. Pro-Palestinian activists recently began raising $300,000 to send a Canadian-registered ship to help break Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza. The plan is to fill the ship with various supplies, a couple dozen prominent activists and to return with Palestinian exports. read ...

Few Green Highlights at Istanbul Fashion Week - TreeHugger

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Few Green Highlights at Istanbul Fashion Week

Obama's Stimulus: 'The Most Ambitious Energy Legislation In History' - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

TIME — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

For starters, the Recovery Act is the most ambitious energy legislation in history, converting the Energy Department into the world's largest venture-capital fund. It's pouring...

'Fresh Air': Daniel Wu And Clean Air Network's Comerical For Avoiding Pollution With Canned Air (VIDEO) - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Travis Walter Donovan — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Hong Kong's Clean Air Network has decided to ditch the frighteningly serious approach to raising awareness about the health concerns of air pollution, and is...

d’Errico: Strategizing sovereignty - ICT: Columnists

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Charles Trimble and Sam Deloria recently called on American Indians across the land to begin coordinated discussions about sovereignty. Trimble’s column, “Pushing the envelope of sovereignty” [Vol. 30, No. 13], raised an alarm about the unplanned way Indian sovereignty struggles are being fought. Trimble argues that the current “national atmosphere of simplistic populism and revolt. … can escalate into. … widespread backlash” by non-Indians who have little understanding of indigenous sovereignty and see only casinos.

Film Festival - Green Left Weekly issue #780

Hobart — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Environment Film Festival
7 pm 8th Oct "FOOD Inc"
4 pm 9th Oct "End of the Line"
7 pm 9th Oct "The Yes Men Fix the World"
Films shown on the big screen at
225 Murray St. Hobart 03 6234 6397
$12/$8 conc per film or
$25/$15 conc. for a festival pass
cheap dinner available both nights.

Event date:

Fri, 08/10/2010 - 7:00pm - Sat, 09/10/2010 - 7:00pm

Blackheath: Henry Reynolds presents the 2nd Vere Gordon Childe Annual Lecture -- Australia in the Early 20th Century: The Burdens of Race, Place and Empire - Green Left Weekly issue #780

BlueMountains — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The 2nd Vere Gordon Childe Annual Lecture (An official History Week event) Australia in the Early 20th Century: The Burdens of Race, Place and Empire (Henry Reynolds) Well known for his books on the history of Settler- Aboriginal Relations, Professor Reynolds will focus here on the issues raised in his recent work with Marilyn Lake entitled 'Drawing the Global Colour Line' which won the 2009 Prime Minister's prize for non-fiction. Saturday, September 11, 4pm Blackheath Primary School hall. Event date: Sat, 11/09/2010 - 4:00pm Event time: Sat, 11/09/2010 - 4:00pm ...

Interview with Greens MP elect Adam Bandt: 'I'll give a voice to the movements' - Green Left Weekly issue #780

peter_b — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Fri, 03/09/2010 Adam Bandt, the MP elect for the seat of Melbourne (long considered a “safe Labor seat”), and the Greens' first House of Representatives member to be elected in a general election has been very busy since August 21. He says he left the triumphant Greens' election night party at 11pm thinking that he would have to do some media the next day so should get a good night's sleep. He woke up the next morning and after a couple of hours having coffee and reading the paper, the situation sunk in. read ...

Christopher Brauchli: Poverty's Penalty - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

Christopher Brauchli — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Welfare recipients participating in San Diego's "Project 100%" are forced to consent to unannounced visits from the Public Affairs Fraud Division, trading their protection afforded by the Fourth Amendment for welfare benefits

Judge Overturns Nebraska Ban On Flag Mutilation, Siding With Westboro Church's Right To Protest Military Funerals - Politics on HuffingtonPost.com

AP — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

OMAHA, Neb. — A federal judge overturned Nebraska's ban on flag mutilation Thursday, clearing the way for Kansas church protesters to continue trampling on the...

Obama's Oval Office Is Beige And Could Have Been Green - TreeHugger

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Obama's Oval Office Is Beige And Could Have Been Green

Brendan DeMelle: EPA Ignores TN and AL on Coal Ash, Nearest Hearing Is 260 Miles From TVA Disaster Site - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Brendan DeMelle — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

September is back to school month, but the next big test for the White House and EPA has already begun. How the Obama administration handles...

Test shows water problem near natgas drill site - Environmental News Network

Jon Hurdle, Reuters — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Test shows water problem near natgas drill site

Fighting Coal Ash, Bureaucracy and Confusion - AlterNet

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

As I have mentioned on this blog before, the Environmental Protection Agency is currently holding public hearings at sites around the country to hear your input on draft regulations for the disposal of toxic coal ash. This week’s blog post comes from Sierra Student Coalition Apprentice Margaret Hoerath, who writes about an activist who [...] ...

Marketing to Consumers: Don't Think Green - GreenBiz.com

Andrea Learned — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

In most cases, brands and organizations should have long since crossed the line from needing to point out their green-ness to working to integrate it throughout their operations.

Nike WVU Football Uniform Ad Enrages Activists For Appearing To Endorse Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

AP — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Activists trying to stop mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia are furious over a Nike Inc. promotional ad for a new...

Jerry Cope: No Safe Harbor on Gulf Coast; Human Blood Tests Show Dangerous Levels of Toxic Exposure - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Jerry Cope — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Within two days after arriving in the region in mid-July, everyone on our team began getting sick. After our first day out on the water, we all had extreme headaches.

Bruce Nilles: Fighting Coal Ash, Bureaucracy and Confusion - Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Bruce Nilles — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:00 GMT

As I have mentioned on this blog before, the Environmental Protection Agency is currently holding public hearings at sites around the country to hear your...