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At Sustainability Congress, Dam Builder Bars Civil Society from Dialogue	21.5.2013	International Rivers Sitewide RSS Feed
By: Zachary Hurwitz SAVE Rivers has protested against the Sarawak dams' impacts on indigenous peoples. SAVE Rivers Sarawak Energy, state developer of the controversial Murum and Baram dams in Sarawak, barred a representative of dam-affected people from participating in a workshop organized by the IFC, World Bank, ADB, and IADB at the start of the International Hydropower Association's bi-annual dam congress here in Kuching yesterday. The move reflects the repressive relationship that Sarawak Energy has with dam-affected communities here in Borneo and calls into question the effectiveness of the IHA's Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol on improving the practices of dam builders in corrupt regimes. Peter Kallang, chairman of the local SAVE Rivers network, which represents indigenous and affected communities impacted by the Batang Ai, Bakun, Murum, and Baram dams in Sarawak, had registered and paid to attend the full week of IHA Congress events, including ...
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At Sustainability Congress, Authoritarian Regime Bars Civil Society from Dialogue	21.5.2013	International Rivers Sitewide RSS Feed
By: Zachary Hurwitz SAVE Rivers has protested against the Sarawak dams' impacts on indigenous peoples. SAVE Rivers Sarawak Energy, state developer of the controversial Murum and Baram dams in Sarawak, barred a representative of dam-affected people from participating in a workshop organized by the IFC, World Bank, ADB, and IADB at the start of the International Hydropower Association's bi-annual dam congress here in Kuching yesterday. The move reflects the repressive relationship that Sarawak Energy has with dam-affected communities here in Borneo and calls into question the effectiveness of the IHA's Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol on improving the practices of dam builders in corrupt regimes. Peter Kallang, chairman of the local SAVE Rivers network, which represents indigenous and affected communities impacted by the Batang Ai, Bakun, Murum, and Baram dams in Sarawak, had registered and paid to attend the full week of IHA Congress events, including ...
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Minoans and genes	16.5.2013	The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Health News
On Crete, people seem to stay. The Great Island reeks of really ancient culture and strange myths. So researchers decided to ask the ancients where they came from!
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Letting go of the Old West	15.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Michael Dax Published May 15, 2013 01:01AM MDT Frederick Jackson Turner’s classic 1893 essay, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” argued that the frontier experience — the opportunity for unlimited expansion into “uninhabited” lands — shaped the country’s entrepreneurial spirit. Turner’s essay took on added significance because three years earlier, the Census Bureau had declared the frontier closed. The line that separated “civilized” from “uncivilized” was gone. Over the next few decades, settlers filled in the remaining... ...
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The fight over what grief means	14.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
How much is too much grief? And how long do you wait before you decide? Among all the changes in the fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the most controversial may have been removing the so-called "bereavement exclusion." The proposal galvanized what the New York Times dubbed a "bitter [...]
Zester Daily: Trader Joe's Seafood Promise to Greenpeace Still Murky	14.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Although Trader Joe's is moving in the right direction, I can't go there today and pick up fish fillets for dinner without worrying about whether I am contributing to the degradation of the ocean.
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Three Reasons To Reform Social Media Before it Re-Forms Us	14.5.2013	Commondreams.org Views
Raffi Cavoukian The following is the preface to Raffi's upcoming book, Lightweb Darkweb: Three Reasons To Reform Social Media Before It Re-Forms Us, to be published in June (Homeland Press, 2013). read more
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Cool but endangered conical houses get preservation treatment in Indonesia	9.5.2013	TreeHugger
Working with the local community on a remote island, a young architect is determined to ensure the survival of traditional building lore.
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CETA and fracking report makes an impact in Europe	9.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
On Monday this week, the Council of Canadians co-launched a timely briefing note on investment treaties and fracking bans with the Brussels-based Corporate Europe Observatory and Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute. As we hoped, the report, The Right to Say No, is making an impact in Europe, where many countries are deciding to ban shale gas development because of the public health and environmental impacts. read more
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Conservative Immigration Scholar: Black and Hispanic Immigrants Are Dumber Than European Immigrants	9.5.2013	Mother Jones
Jason Richwine, the co-author of the conservative Heritage Foundation's controversial study on the supposed $6.3 trillion cost of comprehensive immigration reform, has received much attention and criticism for his 2009 Harvard University dissertation that argued there was "a genetic component" to racial disparities in IQ . But this dissertation wasn't the first time Richwine had expressed such views publicly. In 2008, he told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute that "major" ethnic or racial differences in intelligence between the Irish, Italian and Jewish immigrants who flocked to the United States at the turn of the 20th century and the immigrants coming to the US today justified severely restricting immigration. Richwine's remarks , which he made as a resident fellow at AEI, did not receive much public notice at the time, but they go beyond the arguments presented in his 2009 dissertation. In that dissertation, "IQ and Immigration Policy," which was first reported by Dylan Matthews ...
Weighty Politics: Why Haven't We Seen Heavier Presidents?	8.5.2013	Yahoo: Politics
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie emphasized this his decision to get weight-loss surgery had nothing to do with any future political ambitions. But it also highlights a reality of American presidential politics: There hasn’t been a significantly overweight president of the United States in nearly a century. It's hard to find even overweight presidential candidates.
The Mind of Mulcair: The leader of the NDP on energy, climate change, and electoral reform	8.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
A decade ago a friend of mine spent a summer apprenticing as a page in the National Assembly of Québec during the time that Thomas Mulcair served as Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment, and Parks in the government of Jean Charest. He described vividly how opposition Parti Québécois deputies were terrified of Mulcair. His encyclopedic knowledge, searing intellect and brilliant rhetorical gifts could shred a careless opponent. His nickname at the time, The Grizzly, reflected that approach. This was no Winnie the Pooh or Panda -- tangling with Mulcair could leave an opponent seriously mauled. read ...
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European and Asian languages have one mother tongue	7.5.2013	New Scientist: GM Organisms
European and Asian languages have one mother tongue
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Today on New Scientist	7.5.2013	New Scientist: GM Organisms
Today on New Scientist
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Unconventional swine: how invasive pigs are helping preserve biodiversity in the Pantanal	6.5.2013	Environmental News Network
Unconventional swine: how invasive pigs are helping preserve biodiversity in the Pantanal
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Neighbor Concerned About Animals Genetically Predisposed 'To Rip...Your Genitals Off'	6.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
A Hanover County man is making a last-ditch effort to keep chimpanzees caged in his backyard while avoiding criminal charges for housing potentially dangerous animals....
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NRA official: 'Culture war' more than gun rights	3.5.2013	Yahoo: Top Stories
HOUSTON (AP) — National Rifle Association members are fighting a "culture war" that stretches beyond gun rights, the organization's incoming president said Friday. ...
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NRA members fighting 'culture war,' organization's incoming president says at convention	3.5.2013	Star Tribune: Nation

Latitude: Revolution Or Not, The Media In Egypt Are More Vulnerable Than Ever	2.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Editorials
Latitude: Revolution Or Not, The Media In Egypt Are More Vulnerable Than Ever
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Heather Taylor-Miesle: When It Comes to Fighting Climate Change, We Need All the Tools in Our Tool Belt to Win	2.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
The passing of another Earth Day seems to have some pundits waxing nostalgic. One such pundit, Nicholas Lemann of the New Yorker, wrote a glowing...
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