NewsRack: 'Community' news in 'Sustainability-National' topic for user flenvcenter

Futurist Jamais Cascio envisions a sustainable, resilient world	22.5.2013	Minnesota Public Radio: News
Internationally renowned futurist Jamais Cascio explores the potential course of planet Earth over the next 50 years, painting a picture of what a sustainable, resilient world could look like. He says the choices we make today will shape the decades to come.
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10 Children Confirmed Among The Dead After Oklahoma Tornado	22.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Ten children, two of them just infants, are among those who have been confirmed dead after a mile-wide tornado tore through central Oklahoma on Monday...
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Tornado Survivors' Emotional Reunion	22.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Amid the devastation, chaos. Shining through the chaos, hope. Raw footage from the scene at Briarwood Elementary, one of two Oklahoma City-area schools severely hit...
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From Field to Table: Rights for Workers in the Food Supply Chain	22.5.2013	Commondreams.org Views
Beverly Bell Tory Field read more
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Flood of Exposés, But Mass Movement Remains Stalled	22.5.2013	Commondreams.org Views
Ralph Nader read more
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Headlines for May 22, 2013	22.5.2013	Democracy Now!
Oklahoma Toll Lowered to 24 as Survivors Found, Oklahoma Senator Calls for Spending Cuts to Offset Tornado Aid, Senate Panel Advances Immigration Overhaul; Same-Sex Marriage Protection Removed, Senators Vote to Arm Syrian Rebels, 40 Killed in Widening Iraqi Sectarian Violence, Body of Afghan Torture Victim Found Near U.S. Base, FBI Agents Shoot Dead Orlando Man Questioned in Boston Bombing, Some Testimony in Manning Trial to Be Held in Secret, Report: Justice Dept. Tracked Fox News, White House Phone Lines, Appeals Court Strikes Down Arizona Abortion Ban, Low-Wage Workers Strike at Federal Contractors in D.C., California Health Care Workers Stage 2-Day Strike, 57 Arrested Protesting GOP in North Carolina
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Chicago Board of Ed to vote on 53 school closings	22.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
The Chicago Board of Education was expected to take a final vote Wednesday on whether to close 53 schools, an ambitious proposal that sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define - for better or worse - Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office.
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Proposed Malaysia Dams Raise Transparency, Livelihood Fears	22.5.2013	International Rivers Sitewide RSS Feed
By: Thin Lei Win (Reuters) Date: Monday, May 20, 2013 BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Activists in Sarawak, one of Malaysia's poorest states, have denounced local government plans to build 12 hydro-power dams, which they say is an environmental disaster in the making that will enrich an elite few and displace tens of thousands of people. Campaigners also accused International Hydropower Association (IHA), an industry lobby group, of legitimising those plans by opening its biennial conference on Tuesday in Sarawak. Critics, including opposition politicians, say the dams due to be built by 2020 will produce more energy than needed. However, state-owned Sarawak Energy (SEB), which is awarding many of the project's contracts, says it plans to sell energy to other parts of Malaysia, Brunei, as well as the Indonesian parts of Borneo. Costing $105 billion, the dams are Southeast Asia's most capital-intensive project. Activists say they are unnecessary and threaten ...
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Indigenous Peoples Protest Destructive Sarawak Dams, Corruption at Industry Conference in Malaysia	22.5.2013	International Rivers Sitewide RSS Feed
By: SAVE Rivers, International Rivers, Borneo Project, Bruno Manser Fonds Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 More than three hundred indigenous people of the Penan, the Kenyah, the Kayan, and Iban ethnic groups protested this morning against the recently finished Bakun Dam, the Murum Dam currently under construction, and a series of controversial dams on the island of Borneo, at the opening of the International Hydropower Association's (IHA) biennial conference. Cumulatively, the dams would affect tens of thousands of indigenous people and flood over 2000 square kilometers of rainforest. Dam builder Sarawak Energy has not published the environmental impact assessments of any of the dams, despite persistent calls to do so from affected communities. China Three Gorges Corporation began construction on the 944 MW Murum Dam in 2012 before its environmental impact assessment had even commenced, leaving affected communities with no option to negotiate resettlement outcomes. We ...
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Ukrainian journalists disrupt government session	22.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Ukrainian reporters on Wednesday disrupted a government session chaired by the prime minister, suggesting his family members could be the next victims of official inaction after police in Kiev stood by while pro-government activists attacked two journalists covering an opposition protest.
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Protesters halt oil flows on Libya Zueitina pipeline: sources	22.5.2013	Yahoo: Top Stories
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Protesters calling for jobs have turned off a valve on a pipeline carrying oil to the eastern Libyan terminal of Zueitina, just days after the port had reopened following similar demonstrations, three industry sources said. The move has halted flows to the terminal since Tuesday, the latest in a string of setbacks in Libya's leading industry, which had restored output to close to pre-war levels of 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd) after the 2011 war. ...
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Abe's Market branches out to eco-services	22.5.2013	Chicago Tribune: Popular
Abe's Market branches out to eco-services
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How She Leads: Julian Potter, San Francisco International Airport	22.5.2013	Business Operations \| GreenBiz.com
Meet the chief of staff who helped make San Francisco International Airport a leader in sustainability.
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Median CEO pay rises to $9.7M in 2012	22.5.2013	Minnesota Public Radio: Business
CEO pay, which fell two years straight during the Great Recession but rose 24 percent in 2010 and 6 percent in 2011, has never been higher. But the numbers don't tell the whole story.
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Survivors Return To What Is Left Of Their Homes	22.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — With her son holding her elbow, Colleen Arvin walked up her driveway to what was left of her house for 40...
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Tea Partiers Rally Against IRS Scrutiny	22.5.2013	Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
CINCINNATI -- Tea party activists waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting anti-IRS slogans held rallies outside federal buildings across the country to...
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Ukraine PM bars reporters from government meetings after protest	22.5.2013	World
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov ordered a dozen local reporters to be barred from covering government meetings after they staged a silent protest on Wednesday over physical attacks on journalists at a rally. "What kind of show is this?" Azarov said when reporters who were attending a cabinet meeting stepped in front of television cameras, turning their backs on Azarov and his colleagues. Signs pinned to their backs read: "Today it's a female journalist (beaten up), tomorrow - your wife, sister, daughter. ... ...
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Indigenous Peoples Protest Destructive Sarawak Dams, Corruption at Industry Conference in Malaysia	22.5.2013	Commondreams.org Newswire
More than three hundred indigenous people of the Penan, the Kenyah, the Kayan, and Iban ethnic groups protested this morning against the recently finished Bakun Dam, the Murum Dam currently under construction, and a series of controversial dams on the island of Borneo, at the opening of the International Hydropower Association's (IHA) biennial conference. read more
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Activist Communique: Power in the name -- the reclaiming of PKOLS (Mount Douglas)	22.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
On May 22 at 5 p.m., a powerful renaming ceremony will take place in British Columbia. Name and Blood both hold important power of identity First Nations communities, as many seek to take back both language and landscape. Indigenous activists and their allies have been working hard on a campaign to reclaim and reinstate the traditional name of the mountain known now as Mount Douglas, and along with it, reclaim the area where the Douglas Treaties were first signed in British Columbia, Canada. May 22, 2013, at 5 p.m., Mount Douglas will be known as PKOLS. PKOLS Mountain -- pronounced p'cawls -- according to Indigenous tongue -- is translated into "White Rock" or "White Head". read ...
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How Far-Right Activists Like E.W. Jackson Took Over the Virginia GOP	22.5.2013	Mother Jones
After dropping the last two presidential elections and the last three US Senate races, Virginia Republicans had good reason for optimism heading into this fall's elections: Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chair who bragged about nearly missing his child's birth so he could party with a gossip columnist, is at the top of the Democratic ticket. Things should be looking up for the Virginia GOP. Instead, the party"s activists have resisted calls for moderation and swerved hard to the right quicker than you can say transvaginal ultrasound . Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican party's nominee for governor, once cited Martin Luther King Jr. as justification for his argument that sexual relations between two people of the same gender should be illegal. E.W. Jackson, the party's nominee for lieutenant governor, believes that gays are "degenerate" and "spiritually darkened" and will eventually destroy America. Mark Obenshain, the party's nominee for attorney general, recently ...
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