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Started July, 2009


 

 

 

The Environment

 

 

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Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.

   - The Cree People

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Better Informed & Involved Public...

 

Lonnie J. Burris
Activist & Concerned Citizen

 

 

Related Issues:

 

Biofuel
Economy
Education

Ethics & Morality
Coal Gasification

Orthodox Religion

Political Corruption

Corporate Corruption

 

 

Resources:

 

Earth Save

The Living Planet

Earth Day Network

Whole Earth Catalog

Livestock's Long Shadow

Coal Is Not The Answer

Alliance for Climate Protection

Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy

Clean Air Act

LivingMachines.Com

THRIVE

 

 

 

Relevant Links:

 

Climate Change

Climate Change in 26 Seconds (NASA Video)

 

First Environmentalism -- Then Socialism!

 

Game Over for Planet Earth: The Month's Biggest Story You Never Read

 

Our Ocean's Are in Dire Shape, But Without Them All Like on Land -- Human, Plant and Animal -- Is Totally Screwed

 

The Climate Justice Imperative (Video)

 

Climate Change Puts the World's Water Infrastructure in Danger

 

Meat Industry and Global Warming: What's the Link?

 

The Globes Not Only Getting Hotter. It's More Unjust and Unstable, Too

 

Are You Ready for More?

 

5 Awards for the Worlds Most Heinous Climate Villains

 

UN Climate Negotiator in Tears in Interview with Young Activists (Video)

 

Tackling Climate Change Now - and Later

 

Oil Companies and Special Interests Spend Millions to Oppose Climate Legislation

 

Vegan Lifestyle Fights Global Warming (Video)

 

The Good, Bad and Ugly of Action on Global Warming

 

Global Deserts Threatened by Climate Change (Video)

 

Coming to Terms with Climate Change and Ecology

 

Global Warming: The Biochar Solution

 

New UN Report Says Vegan Vital to Saving The Environment, Curbing Fossil Fuel Use

 

The Best Explanation of Why We Need to Address Climate Change (Video)

Panic! at the Citgo: Running Out of Oil, and Why the 450 is the New 350

Climate-Change Authority Advocates Vegetarianism

McKibben Versus Hedges Clash of Worldviews: How Do We Solve the Environmental Crisis?

What Happened to Global Warming?

Climate Change Occurring Faster Than Expected

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations, But Were Afraid to Ask

The Fallacy of Climate Activism

Our Last Chance to Preserve Life On Earth Is Slipping Away

Climate Change Calculus

Why EPA, Not Coal Burners, Should Be in Charge on Climate Change

Finally, Someone Has Made Global Warming Cool

The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive

Thanks to Our Fossil Fuel Addiction, We May Be Setting Ourselves Up for a Catastrophic Natural Event

Clean Energy Bill Survives: Political Realists Rejoice, Climate Science Realists Demand More

Waxman-Markey: Will Congress Cave to Big Industry and Kill One of the Most Important Pisces of Legislation Ever?

 

Obama to Raise Fuel Efficiency Standards: Biggest Step Gov Has Taken to Fight CO2

Our Appetite for Animals Is Taking Toward Apocalypse

Good News, There's a Climate Bill -- Bad News, It Stinks

More Americans Believe Global Warming Natural Versus Man Made

AMO and PDO - The Real Climate Makers in the United States

Thousands Storm Capital Hill in Largest Protest Against Global Warming

Illinois May Pose the Greatest Opposition to Obama's Plans on Global Warming

Climate Economics in Four Easy Pieces

The Most Important Number on Earth

Forget the Polar Bears -- The Climate Crisis Is About All of Us

The Energy Challenge of Our Lifetime

President Obama's Big Climate Challenge

Are Human Beings Hard-Wired to Ignore the Threat of Catastrophic Climate Change?


It Is Time to Change from Fighting Against Something to Fighting for Something

 

The Meltdown We Really Can't Afford

New Information Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Water

Corporations Have Big Plans to Profit from Global Warming

Meat Must Be Rationed to Four Portions a Week, Says Report On Climate Change

Methane 'Fart' from the Earth Poses Enormous Global Warming Risk

Global Warming After Gore

Study: Ethanol May Add to Global Warming

Can Global Warming Be Slowed by Complex Concept of Carbon Trading?


What the Government Doesn't Want You to Know About Global Warming

Is the World Making Progress on Fighting Global Warming?

Climate Change: The World's Biggest Security Threat

Climate Change is a Wake-Up Call to Radically Reform Our Economy

How Conservatives Have Duped Us in the Global Warming Fight

Let's Kick Nuclear Power Out of the Climate Change Debate

Eating Meat Is Worth Than Driving a Truck - for the Climate


Natural Resources

Humanity's Growing Impact on the World's Freshwater

Obama Administration Issues Rewrite of National Forest Rules

Nature: She's Alive and Worth Fighting For (Video)

The World's Largest Intact Forest (Video)

Why Governments Are on the Hook to Ensure Clean, Safe Water for Everyone

She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite... Hurting... Worth Dying For

Saving and Rebuilding Our Soil

The Rivers are Dying, What Can We Do to Save Them?

Joe Bageant: Our Plunder of Nature Will End of Killing Capitalism and Our Obscene Lifestyles

Deep Sea Methane: Energy Savior or Impending Disaster?

Easy Ways to Conserve Water and Save Money

Three Solutions to Our Water and Population Problems

Whose Water Is It? Water Rights in the Age of Scarcity

Why the U.S. May Be Going from Dependence on Mid East Oil to Rare Metals from China

New Solar Power Plants May Threaten Scarce Desert Water Resources

The Health of Our Society Is Measured in the Health of Our Rivers

Peter Gleick: How We Can Avoid a World Without Water

Water Is the Next Commodified Resource

We're Paying the Price Today for Decades of Relentless Damn Building

Everything You Need to Know About Water Privatization

Why Protecting Watersheds Is About Community and Culture

Maude Barlow: The Growing Battle for the Right to Water

The Lowdown on Topsoil: It's Disappearing

 

 

Politics & Political Corruption

 

Noam Chomsky: "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours" (Video)

 

Cynicism Is For Suckers: How We Can Fight the Greedy Elites That Run Our Lives

 

The Hypocrisy and Stupidity of the GOP's Hatred of the EPA

 

The Shocking Republican Attack on the Environment and Our Drinking Water

 

The Shocking Republican Attack on the Environment and Our Drinking Water

 

Cap-and-Dividend is SOOO The New Cap & Trade

 

A Plea to President Obama: End Mountaintop Coal Mining

 

Creating a 'Pollution Casino': Why the Energy Bill May End Up a Boon for the Dirties Industries

 

Obama Must Say No to the Coal Barons Desecrating Our Mountains

 

Why Obama's Plan to Help Renewable Energy May Backfire and Aid Big Coal

 

Voters Not Conned By Coal

 

We Are One President Away from a Future of Fossil Fuel Addiction

 

Coal Industry Spends Millions on Election Year Ads

 

The Democrats' Dirty Secret: Presidential Candidates Backed by Nuclear Powerhouses
 

How Obama Can Win Appalachia and the Nomination

 

The Environmental Crime No Politician Will Confront
 

Even the Government's Nuclear Agency Thinks a Nuclear Renaissance Is a Bad Idea

 

The U.S. Needs a New Energy Policy...Now

The Clean Air Act Is Not a Bargaining Chip

What's Missing from the New Clean Energy Agenda?

 

Obama Administration Announces New Plan to Save Oceans, Will It Be Enough?

 

Ray LaHood: The Obama Appointment You Should Really Be Worried About

 

Is the Nation Ready for Obama's Energy Plan?

 

Bush's Parting Shots at the Environment Are Major

 

The War on Iraq is also a War on The Environment

 

EPA Must Rewrite Utility Mercury Rule: U.S. Court

 

 

 

Pollution & Destructive Industry

Why Do We Pay Energy Giants to Wreck Earth?

Obama Picks Sides on Keystone XL: TransCanada Wins. Earth, Everyone Else Loses

Polluters Dump 226 Million Pounds of Toxins into U.S. Rivers

Join the Fight to End Unnecessary Fossil Fuel Subsidies!

Big Food Must Go: Why We Radically Need to Change the Way We Eat

 5 Amazing Places in the US In Danger of Being Destroyed by Dirty Energy

The Numbers Don't Lie - We Don't Need More Drilling

Will Fossil Fuel Companies Face Liability for Climate Change?

Ordinary Citizens Fight Big Coal

How to Win a GMO Debate: 10 Facts Why GMO Food is Bad

People's Court Puts Agrochemical Giants on Trial

Feds Link Water Contamination for Fracking for the First Time

Put the Fat Cats on a Diet: Stop Buying Tainted Food from Billion Dollar Corporations

How Dirty Money Dirties the Environment

The 5 Most Toxic Energy Companies and How They Control Our Politics

How the 1% Pillage the Environment

 How Global Capitalism Always Finds Fresh Green Pastures to Exploit and Demolish

"Greedy Lying Bastards" Exposes Big Oil's Dirty Secret

Explained: What Are GMOs?

 How America's Decline is Linked to Oil

Why the Birds and Bees Are Dying: The EPA Knows But Aren't Telling

Do We Need a Militant Movement to Save the Planet (and Ourselves)?

Bloomberg Donates $50 Million to Fight Dirty Coal

Fluoridated Water - The Ultimate Evil

New Mountain Top Removal Movie (Video)

Top 10 Most Endangered Rivers in the U.S.

The Sky Really Is Falling and Our Only Salvation Is the Rapid Dismantling of the Fossil Fuel Industry

Rachel Carlson's Silent Spring

Film Reveals Struggle for the Last Appalachian Mountains

Vision: Building a World that Can Run Without Fossil Fuels Will Be the Challenge of Our Lifetimes

The Dirty Truth Behind America's Obsession with Shrimp

There's Nothing Natural About Natural Gas

Saying No to the Nuclear Option

US Spent Nuclear Fuel Largest Concentration of Radioactivity on Planet (Video)

What Are Carbon Offsets and How Do They Work?

The Gulf of Mexico Is Dying

Scientists Fear Mass Extinction as Oceans Choke

Beef's Dirty Secrets (Video)

Simmering Water War: How New Power Plants Will Suck Our Water Sources Dry

The Secret Life of Beef (Video)

Personal Perspective on Water Flouridation (Video)

We Are Facing the Greatest Threat to Humanity: Only Fundamental Change Can Save Us

SPECIAL REPORT: When Will Our Water Be Clean?

Poll: American Don't  Support Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Ocean Acidification: History Repeating Itself

Making Sense: The New Energy Future

GM Corn 'Has 'Polluted the Rivers Across the United States'

Ocean Trash: Polluting Seas and Killing Sea Lions

The Fluoride Fraud

Poisoned Water

Top 10 Countries Killing The Planet

20 Ways to Reduce Your Dependence on Oil

 

Michael Pollan Spreads Message About the Real Price of Cheap Food, Despite Censorship by Beef Magnate

 

10 Most Surprising Places to Find Petroleum

 

The Hazards of Flouride in Food and Water

 

Report Finds Massive Hidden Energy Costs, Mostly from Coal

 

Our Oil Addiction Is About to Make Life a Lot Nastier

 

Tyson Fined $2M For Mucking Up Missouri River

 

Persistence Stops a Train -- and Global Warming Slowed

 

'Crude': The Film Chevron Doesn't Want You to See

 

Mining's Destructive Legacy on Waterways

 

From Farm to Pharma: How Animals Ended Up Living in Confined Feed Lots Guzzling Antibiotics

 

The Pacific Isn't the Only Ocean Turning Into a Trash Heap

 

GOP Goes Off the Deep End; Proposes 100 New Nuclear Reactors in the U.S.

 

Taking Down the Corporate Food System Is Simple

 

Carbon Capture Can't Make Coal Clean

 

How Do We Curb Carbon: The Debate Over an Emissions Cap or a Tax

 

Agriculture Is One of the Most Polluting and Dangerous Industries

 

Will California Say No to Ethanol?

 

The Consequences of 'Drill Baby Drill': More than 90 Oil Spills a Day in the U.S.

 

Honeybees Continue to Vanish: Don't Blame Aliens -- It's Our Addiction to Pesticides That's at Fault

 

6 Reasons Why Nuclear Power Can't Save Us

 

Dynegy Abandons Plans for 5 New Coal Plants

 

How Much Does It Really Cost Us to Clean Up Our Waterways from Farm Runoff

 

States Get Creative to Limit Coal Plants, But It's Not Enough

 

How Climate Change Is Killing Our Oceans

 

Environmentalists Win Big EPA Ruling

 

Will the Economic Crash Take Down Our Hopes for Clean Energy?

 

Boatloads of Trouble: How We Are Importing Our Way to Destruction
 

How to Hold Corporations Accountable

 

Our Suicide Mission with Coal
 

Leading Dems Are in King Coal's Pocket
 

Carbon Offsets: The New Cure for Enviroguilt

 

 

 

The Green Movement

Making Sustainability Legal: 9 Zombie Laws That Keep Cities from Going Green

 

Top Industry Experts: "Green Energy Is a Smart Investment"

 

The Essentials for the Necessary Transition to a Renewable Energy Economy

 

Will Clean Energy Ever Be a Reality in the U.S.? Here's What's Standing in Our Way

 

What It Will Take to Make Renewable Energy a Reality in the US

 

Where Are Today's Renewable Energy Leaders [Infographic]

 

DOE Shows Interest in Algae Fuels

YouTilities

Serious About Green Jobs? It's Time to Through 'Free Trade' Out the Window

Will the Right Succeed in Butchering the American Clean Energy and Security Act?

Why Obama Should Take Notes from Cuba on a Green Energy Revolution

California Utility Bets on Space-Based Solar Power

A Solar Revolution May Be Coming to Your Town

How a Green Economy Is an Antidote to Casino Capitalism

Make Your Resolutions for 2009 Green

5 Ways to Usher in the New Green Age

A Solar Gold Rush Is Spreading from California to New Jersey

A Green Bailout: We Need Help for People Who Want to Save the Planet

What the Economy Needs Now are Good, Green Jobs

China's Green Leap Forward
 

Green-tech Investment Topped $5 Billion in 2007


The Top Green Stories of 2007
 

Keeping MLK's Green Legacy Alive

 

Population

How Many People Is Too Many?

 

Are We Breeding Ourselves to Extinction?

Have We Hit the Limits of Human Population?

Consumption, Not Population, Is Our Main Environmental Threat

 

 

Other

A New Conservation Ethic for the 21st Century

 

Drowning in Plastic

 

Creative, Non-Violent Vegan Advocacy (A Beginner's Guide)

 

10 Documentaries Everyone Should See (Videos)

 

We've Entered the Age of Mass Extinction: Goodbye Fish and a Whole Lot More

 

What Is Sustainability? (Video)

 

The New 30-Year's War: Who Will Be the Winners and Losers in the Great Global Energy Struggle to Come?

 

Vision: Nature Needs Rights -- Why Our Human-Centric Model Will Doom Us and the Rest of the Planet

 

5 Reasons to be Hopeful We Haven't Totally Screwed Ourselves and the Planet... Yet

 

Time for Plan B: Our Civilization Is on the Edge of a Systemic Breakdown

 

Cuts to the EPA Could Stifle Economic Growth (Video)

 

5 Environmental Crisis to Care About

 

10 Ways EPA Has Improved Our Lives, An Anniversary Retrospective

 

Hunters Are Not Environmentalists

 

Derrick Jensen: Consumer Culture Is Killing the Planet -- We Need to Build a Culture of Resistance

 

Time to End War Against the Earth

 

Warming to Misanthrope

 

3 Reasons Why Mother Nature Wants You to Eat Less Meat

 

Are We Witnessing the Death of Our Planet?

 

Genetic Engineering: The World's Greatest Scam? (Video)

10 Ways Your Taxes Pay for Environmental Devastation

3 Things We Need for a Food Revolution

Can You Be An Environmentalist and Still Eat Meat?

Human Race "Will Be Extinct Within 100 Years", Claims Leading Scientist 

10 Ways Mother Earth Will Strike Back if We Don't Stop Our Wanton Destruction of the Environment 

No Impact Project Provides Free Environmental Education Curriculum for Teachers

 

Geo-Engineering Could Save the Planet... and in the Process Sacrifice the World

 

New Film 'Earth Days' Takes a Sometimes Devastating Look at the History of Environmental Activism

 

Want to Understand the Business of Organic Farming? Just Watch

 

Can the Enviro Movement Be Saved? That's the Hope of the New Film 'Earth Days'

 

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future

 

Can the Enviro Movement Be Saved? That's the Hope of the New Film "Earth Days"

 

13 Secret Toxins Lurking in Your Food, and How to Avoid Them

 

Why Silk Soy Milk's Parent Company Is Throwing American Farmers and Consumers Under the Bus

 

Taking Down the Corporate Food Chain Is Simple

 

From Watchdog to Lapdog: An Insiders History of the EPA

 

Green to the Grave: Eco-Friendly Burials Catching On

 

How We Talk About the Environment Has Everything to Do with Whether We'll Save It

 

Humans Seem Hell Bent on Committing Mass Suicide -- But There's Still Hope

 

Would You Call 60,000 Cows Fenced Together on a Dirt Patch a "Farm"?

 

Armed Forces Community Takes Up Global Warming Cause: It's an Urgent Matter of National Security

 

Michael Pollan: "Don't Buy Any Food You've Ever Seen Advertised"

 

Locavor to the Max: How to Forage for Low-Impact, Recession Proof Food

 

Oil Has Peaked: Now Begins the Transition

 

8 Ways to Join the Local Food Movement

 

Hemp Is Not Pot: It's The Economic Stimulus and Green Jobs Solution We Need

 

Eating Our Planet to Death?

 

Lease Your Roof for the Solar Energy Revolution

 

Our Biggest Problem Is Bigness Itself

 

Environmental Failure: A Ruined Planet Is Closer to Reality

 

The Many Ways Our Future is a Mess

 

How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth

 

Finding the Best, Local Food Near You Just Got Easier

 

Will the Economic Crash Take Down Our Hopes for Clean Energy?

 

How the Economic Crisis Will Affect the Environment

 

Environmental Failure: A Ruined Planet Is Closure to Reality

 

There Is More to Green Than Global Warming

 

5 Steps to an Environmental Revolution
 

God and the Environment

 

Preparing for Life After Oil

 

What Would You Say to Coke's Executives?

 

Java Good Time
 

How the Army Core is Swindling Americans

 

Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler

 

The Only Diet for a Peacemaker Is a Vegetarian Diet

 

Renewable Energy Is More Promising for Jobs than Dirty Coal

 

 

 

 

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