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A new study released in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution finds that while palm oil may pose the most direct threat to the highest number of endangered species on earth, most people are unaware of the danger. Palm oil producers are adopting the tried and true techniques of coal and oil producers to [...]
Continue reading...By Becky Tarbotton, January 26 2009
It wasn’t that long ago (I think we can count it in months actually) that the terms ‘nationalize’ and ‘banks’ just wouldn’t ever have been found in the same sentence. Ever. Check out this whole article in the NY Times entitled: “Nationalization Gets a New, Serious Look”. One small excerpt: “In an interview Sunday on [...]
Continue reading...By Debra, January 21 2009
True lasting change is going to take more than new ideas in Washington. The challenges we face will not be solved by a single action. Rather, it’s going to take each and every one of us coming together again and again to sustain the hope and courage that we feel today. The world is celebrating [...]
Continue reading...By Branden Barber, January 21 2009
Join Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben in Civil Disobedience Against Coal-Fired Power Plants | AlterNet By Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben, AlterNet Posted on January 20, 2009, Printed on January 21, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/118458/ There are moments in a nation’s — and a planet’s — history when it may be necessary for some to break the [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, January 19 2009
Soon after the Nov. elections, the Alliance for Appalachia convened a meeting of over 25 local, regional and national groups working on coal issues. During the meeting a plan emerged to use the meme of the “First 100 Days” of the Obama administration to launch a campaign to power past coal. Tomorrow launches the campaign [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, January 18 2009
Peabody has a new ad campaign where they put sunglasses on a piece of coal and try to make it look “cool.” Uhhh, isn’t that ironic? Coal the leading source of green house emissions in the heating of the planet trying to look “cool.” There are also the eerie parallels between the coal industry and [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, January 12 2009
Time to break up with Bank of America, it’s not us it’s you. They just won’t stop kicking people out of their houses and blowing up coal. On February 14th, activists across the nation will be joining Rising Tide Boston in closing their accounts with Bank of America. Despite public relations ploys to the contrary [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, January 11 2009
Seventeen Everglades Earth First! activists were arrested in an effort to re-open Barley Barber swamp for public use and immediate scientific monitoring. Expressing great concern for the impact Florida Power and Light has had on this landmark property, activists engaged in civil disobedience to assert the need for immediate independent scientific monitoring of the oldest [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, January 9 2009
On Dec. 22 the Tennessee Valley Authority spilled over a billion gallons of coal ash waste and sludge into the communities and waterways of Eastern Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. The spill was larger than the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. NOW, the Tennessee Valley Authority has had a second coal ash spill in northeast Alabama [...]
Continue reading...By Julie, January 6 2009
RAN West Bengal observed “World Energy Day” in the streets of Kolkata on December 18th, 2008. Prominent speakers attended the event and expressed their grave concern at the rate of energy consumption in India. Sixty-two percent of power in India is generated from coal. “The Earth unfortunately is not a never ending treasure trove of [...]
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By Margaret, January 26 2009
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