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Monsanto CEO: 'Elitism' Fuels Our Critics
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16.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| It's not controversial pesticide-resistent crops that fuel Monsanto's critics, according to the company's CEO; it's their own desire to keep poor people from cheap food.... |
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Moms March To Push For Fracking Moratorium Extension
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15.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Local activists in Boulder held a rally on the Boulder County Courthouse lawn Monday in honor of Mother's Day urging commissioners to extend a moratorium... |
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You'll Fall In Love With This Sweet Engagement Story
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15.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| It won't surprise you that the man in this photo, holding a pit bull like a baby, has a sweet engagement story that involves his... |
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30 semi-finalists named in St. Paul's 'Million Dollar Idea contest'
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10.5.2013 |
MinnPost |
| Thirty semi-finalists have been selected for the "$1 MILLION Forever Saint Paul Challenge," which asked people to submit ideas to improve St. Paul.
A panel will now narrow those down to three to five finalists, and then the public will vote to determine which one gets the $1 million for implementation.
Sponsored by the Saint Paul Foundation, the challenge received more than 900 ideas.
The 30 semi-finalists, in alphabetical order:
Bike-Connect St. Paul
Submitted by: Amy Schroeder Ireland, Saint Paul, MN
Bike-Connect Saint Paul will create a series of permanent outdoor maps of St. Paul's major bike routes. The maps will be installed at major bike-route intersections and the routes on the maps will be color coded, like a subway system (i.e. green line, orange line, red line), with matching color-coded signs installed along the routes. If routes aren’t connected to one another or to a significant destination, then Amy will find a way to connect them.
Capital City Community Toolbox: A ... |
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Protecting the sacred: Indigenous resistance grows strong in Keystone XL battle
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10.5.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| Thursday, May 9, 2013
In January, Casey Camp-Horinek traveled the route of the proposed pipeline and her people's Trail of Tears to Pickstown, S.D., for an international treaty gathering called Protect the Sacred.
On cloudy days, heavy smoke fills the air of Ponca City, Okla., with grey smog that camouflages itself into the sky. The ConocoPhillips oil refinery that makes its home there uses overcast days as a disguise to release more toxins into the air. These toxins are brimming with benzene -- a chemical that, according to the Centers for Disease Control, can cause leukemia, anemia and even decrease the size of women’s ovaries. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in 2008 the ConocoPhillips refinery released over 2,000 pounds of this chemical into the air in Ponca City.
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Headlines for May 9, 2013
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9.5.2013 |
Democracy Now! |
| 8 Killed in Bangladesh Factory Fire; Toll From Building Collapse Nears 900, Ariel Castro Charged in Cleveland Kidnapping, Abuse Case, State Dept. Official Claims Demotion for Criticism of Benghazi Response, Israel OKs More Settlement Expansion; Kerry Announces Visit, Stephen Hawking Backs Academic Boycott of Israel, Closing Arguments Held in Genocide Trial of Former Guatemalan Dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, Activist: Biden Avowed Opposition to Keystone XL Pipeline, EPA: No Plans for Curbing Greenhouse Gases From Existing Power Plants, House Panel Backs Weakening of Derivatives Rules, Peace Activists Convicted for Protest at Tennessee Nuclear Site, Docs: FBI, Justice Dept. Assert Right to Warrantless Internet Spying, Ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling Reaches Deal for Early Release, Colorado Legislature Approves Drivers Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants, 1st Ever Marijuana Tax, Blacks Voted at Higher Rate Than Whites in 2012 Elections, Cooper Union Students Stage Sit-In to Preserve Free Tuition |
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Neighbor Concerned About Animals Genetically Predisposed 'To Rip...Your Genitals Off'
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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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Former 'Price Is Right' Host Makes Big Offer To Save Animals
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6.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| From Mother Nature Network's Michael d'Estries: Bob Barker may be nearing his ninth decade, but the former "Price is Right" host certainly isn't letting age... |
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E.P.A. Plan to Clean Up Gowanus Canal Meets Local Resistance
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5.5.2013 |
NY Times: NY Region |
| E.P.A. Plan to Clean Up Gowanus Canal Meets Local Resistance |
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Candidate profile: Teresa Alvarado campaigns for reform in wake of Shirakawa scandal
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5.5.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News |
| SAN JOSE -- Teresa Alvarado was born into an East Side family steeped in politics and public service. |
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Dams in the Amazon: the Rights and Wrongs of Belo Monte
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3.5.2013 |
International Rivers News RSS Feed |
| By:
The Economist
Date:
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Having spent heavily to make the world’s third-biggest hydroelectric project greener, Brazil risks getting a poor return on its $14 billion investment
THE biggest building site in Brazil is neither in the concrete jungle of São Paulo nor in beachside Rio de Janeiro, which is being revamped to host the 2016 Olympics. It lies 3,000km (1,900 miles) north in the state of Pará, deep in the Amazon basin. Some 20,000 labourers are working around the clock at Belo Monte on the Xingu river, the biggest hydropower plant under construction anywhere. When complete, its installed capacity, or theoretical maximum output, of 11,233MW will make it the world’s third-largest, behind China’s Three Gorges and Itaipu, on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
Everything about Belo Monte is outsized, from the budget (28.9 billion reais, or $14.4 billion), to the earthworks—a Panama Canal-worth of soil and rock is being excavated—to the ... |
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Chronology of Events for Barro Blanco Dam (Panama)
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2.5.2013 |
International Rivers Sitewide RSS Feed |
| Date:
Thursday, May 2, 2013
This chronology was compiled to provide a clear picture of the stakeholder activities surrounding the Barro Blanco Dam in western Panama since its inception. The sources of information include first-hand accounts, blogs, official documents, and media reports. While we hope this will provide a comprehensive and useful resource for those interested in the project, we cannot vouch for the accuracy of all the information listed here. We welcome any corrections and additions you may have.
Compiled by Melissa Orozco, Latin America Communications Intern
1981
General Omar Torrijos was forced to cancel the first dam project, Tabasará I, a 220 MW dam designed to supply energy to the Cerro Colorado copper mine, due to local opposition. As the mine was never developed, due to rejection by the community and the sudden drop in copper prices there was not a need for the dam.
1997
The consortium Tabasará, S.A is created to develop Tabasará I and ... |
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11 Celebrities Who Love Animals
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29.4.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| From Vetstreet's Margaret Bristol: With all the glitz and glamour that comes out of Tinseltown (not to mention the endless tabloid fodder), it's not always... |
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Clement: 'Ring Of Fire' Will Be Canada's Next Oil Sands
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26.4.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Ontario’s “Ring of Fire” mining project promises to be the economic equivalent of another oil sands, Treasury Board President Tony Clement says. Clement, who was... |
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Houston’s Most Polluted Neighborhood Draws the Line at Alberta Tar Sands
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24.4.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
| Kristin Moe
Volunteers staff a free store where residents can access free food, clothing, and information about the neighborhood's environmental problems. (Photo by Tar Sands Blockade) The playground in Manchester, a neighborhood on Houston"s east side, is empty much of the time. Children who play for too long here often start to cough. They go back inside, leaving an empty swing set in the shadow of a nearby oil refinery.
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Assimilating Canadians into the wisdom of Indigenous ancestors
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23.4.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| Tuesday, April 23, 2013
If we're going to stand with our Indigenous neighbors, we'll have to start asking questions about whose land we’re standing on.
This year, the Idle No More movement called for Earth Day rallies to focus attention on the links between Indigenous issues and the environmental movement.
Events leading up to Earth Day included an impressive 'Nation2Nation' (N2N) dialogue between Haudenosaunee and Anishnawbeg leaders like Ellen Gabriel and Leanne Simpson and Canadian activist Naomi Klein in Toronto. (Watch videos of this event here and here .)
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Earth Day is for women
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23.4.2013 |
CNN: Top Stories |
| Earth Day is the time of year to hear the usual polarized debates between liberals who lament humanity's reckless use of natural resources and conservatives who deny any human role in climate change and echo Sarah Palin's call for industry to "drill, baby, drill." |
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The Eco-Impact Of Your Everyday Choices
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22.4.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| By Rachel Z. Arndt Which is greener, printed books or e-readers? Aluminum cans or glass bottles? The answers will surprise you. Washing By Hand... |
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Evie Hantzopoulos: Youth Climate Activist Manifesto
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22.4.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| We are the change and the future fighting for a better planet starting with clean air, water, environmental justice, and green jobs in our local communities. We are the change we want to see in the world. |
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The first Earth Day and the ABCs of a greener bottom line
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22.4.2013 |
Business Operations | GreenBiz.com |
| An early participant discusses how the need for environmental change is easy to explain, but difficult to implement.   |
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