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By the MESA advisory and executive committees, March 27, 2014 It is no longer sufficient to merely protest “supply side” assaults on the environment such as coal-fired power plants, fracking, tar sands & oil shale in Utah, the Keystone XL pipeline, nuclear power on the Green River. All these actions are necessary and MESA supports …
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By Katherine Martinko, published in Living Heath, March 24, 2014 (see http://www.treehugger.com/health/new-china-study-reveals-link-between-air-pollution-and-genetic-mutation-babies.html) CC BY 2.0 Kevin Spooley Developing fetuses are extremely vulnerable to the harmful effects of environmental pollution. As the cells of major organs develop during the first trimester, genetic mutations can occur that are impossible to reverse. A new study conducted by …
It’s time we stop pretending that inequality and environmental decline are two separate problems by Annie Leonard – published in Earth Island Journal and SALON Here’s the tension: Yes, many people need more resources to meet basic levels of health and security. At the same time, humanity is consuming too much. If our strategy to …
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Natural and social scientists develop new model of how ‘perfect storm’ of crises could unravel global system by Nafeez Ahmed, published in “Earth Insight” hosted by The Guardian- March 16,2014 This Nasa Earth Observatory image shows a storm system circling around an area of extreme low pressure in 2010, which many scientists attribute to climate …
Continue reading “Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for ‘irreversible collapse’?”
Feeling anxious about life in a broken economy on a strained planet? Turn despair into action. by Robert Jensen, published in Love and the Apocalypse in the Summer 2013 issue of YES! Magazine In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher attended a protest at a federal auction of drilling rights to Utah wilderness lands. He found a …
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By Herman Daly Published March 3, 2014 in The Daly News by Center for Advancement of the Steady-State Economy Dr. Paul Brand was the son of British missionary parents in South India where he grew up. He returned to England to study medicine, then went back to take care of people with leprosy in India, …
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ucla-inst-of-the-environment-and-sustainability/air-pollution-its-complic_b_4776673.html By Ashley Verhines (published in Huffington Post on Feb.12, 2014) Many recent studies have shown that air pollution levels and income levels are linked. Poorer communities suffer from bad air more than wealthy communities. A recent study by UCLA researchers revealed some complications in this correlation, but found that air pollution is still about …
Continue reading “Air Pollution: It’s Complicated, But It’s Still About Environmental Justice”
The apocalypse has a new date: 2048. That’s when the world’s oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an international team of ecologists and economists. The cause: the disappearance of species due to overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. The study by Boris Worm, PhD, of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, — with …
By Bill McKibben, published in Rolling Stone- July 19, 2012 (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719#ixzz2shqcXF00) If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven’t convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest …
By Christina Sarich, Nation of Change, Published: Friday 7 February 2014 Welcome to the future, its already here. Solar employs and nuclear destroys; we have ample evidence of that now, and with the annual U.S. solar jobs census we now have proof that solar power isn’t just providing energy, without destroying our oceans and contaminating …