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Chris Jordan : The Photographer as Agent of Environmental Change
Chris Jordan took this photo at a Florida cellphone-processing plant, which he says sorts about 50,000 phones a month. Working ones are resold; the rest are shredded and burned to recover a tiny amount of gold in each one. “Pound … Continue reading
Sustainability : Transforming Detroit
Photographer: Fabrizio Costantini/Bloomberg News. Hazel Williams picks green tomatoes at an Urban Farm off Linwood Avenue in Detroit, on Sept. 22, 2008. Photo by Fabrizio Costantini / Bloomberg.Detroit: City of HopeBuilding a sustainable economy out of the ashes of industry. … Continue reading
The Unkindest Cut : Hands Off Boy Scout Forest Land
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. I hit the damned ceiling when I learned that ‘the Boy Scouts have sold at least 34,000 acres of land to logging corporations, allowing big business to level forests that were supposed … Continue reading
‘Future Farming’ : A 50-Year Plan for Sustainable Agriculture
Wes Jackson, president of The Land Institute, shown with actress Jane Fonda. Photo by Joan Halifax (Upaya) / Wikipedia Commons. ‘If we continue our offenses against the land and the labor by which we are fed, the food supply will … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Ecology, Economic Recovery, Farming, Sustainability
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Leaving Las Vegas : Can We Say Goodbye to Catalysmic Consumption and Hedonism?
Lake Mead: Beautiful but shrinking. Photo by Ron Niebrugge / Niebrugge Images.‘Will we finally accept the public policy and lifestyle changes that the real world now requires? Or will “Viva Las Vegas” always be America’s motto?’By David Sirota / December … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Consumer Culture, Ecology, Energy Crisis, Environment, Las Vegas
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We Are Citizens of Earth, Not Just Consumers: Fixing the Broken Economy Means Changing It
Although this article explicitly addresses the Canadian economy, the points these authors make apply everywhere. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog Paul Lachine/NewsArtDon’t fix the economy – change itBy Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver / December 26, 2008 Sticking … Continue reading
Avoiding Ecological Collapse in the Gulf Dead Zone
Satellite image of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone, October 2005.Scientists: act now on Gulf of Mexico’s dead zoneBy Cain Burdeau / December 12, 2008 NEW ORLEANS — Scientists have issued a report urging immediate government action to reduce urban … Continue reading
Ecuador : Nature has Inherent Rights
‘Breaking with tradition and establishing a bold legal precedent, Ecuador recently decided that nature should have rights of its own.’By Anna Cederstav / October 23, 2008 Most environmentalists believe that nature has a right to exist for its own sake, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecology, Ecuador, Enviornmental Law, Environment, Latin America, Legal Precedent
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1 in 4 Mammals Now Thought to Face Extinction
A fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus), one of the world’s mammals that is declining in population. More than a third are probably threatened with extinction. Photo by Mathieu Ourioux / AFP / Getty Image.‘What we are facing is a very rapid, … Continue reading
British Jury : Threat From Global Warming Justifies Protesters’ Breaking Law
Five of the ‘Kingsnorth Six’ at the top of the 200m chimney of power station.Jury cleared six Greenpeace activists of £35,000 worth of criminal damage to a coal-fired power stationBy Michael McCarthy / September 11, 2008 The threat of global … Continue reading
BushCo and Sarah Palin : Polar Bears, Schmolar Bears….
‘The Bush Administration had not wanted to designate the polar bear as threatened in the first place; now Palin’s lawsuit provided cover to backtrack on the decision’By Mark Hertsgaard / September 10, 2008 It wasn’t much noticed at the time, … Continue reading
Suffocating Dead Zones Spread Across World’s Oceans
With more than 400 oxygen-starved dead zones in global coastal waters, scientists are calling for such dead zones to be recognised as one of the world’s great environmental problems.Critically low oxygen levels now pose as great a threat to life … Continue reading
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Tagged Dead Zones, Eco-Systems, Ecology, Environment, Marine Life, Oceans, Science
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