Posted by Joshua Frank on December 23rd, 2008 | Link
Yesterday morning, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal fired power plant in Harriman Tennessee spilled approximately 500 million gallons of toxic coal ash into the Tennessee River and surrounding areas.
Posted by Joshua Frank on December 23rd, 2008 | Link
Will tweak, not overhaul, mining laws.
Posted by Joshua Frank on December 23rd, 2008 | Link
Westerners will breathe the legacy of Bush’s BLM.
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on December 19th, 2008 | Link
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on December 19th, 2008 | Link
HOW TO FIX GLOBAL WARMING AND GAIN ENERGY SECURITY
By Peter Montague
A detailed new report from Stanford University reviews and ranks
major energy-related solutions to global warming, air pollution
deaths, and energy security. The report is available now online with
extensive supplementary materials, and will soon appear in the
journal Energy & Environmental Solutions. The author is Mark Z.
Jacobson, director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford in
Palo Alto, Calif.
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on December 19th, 2008 | Link
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE TO STOP COAL
By Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben
Dear Friends,
There are moments in a nation’s — and a planet’s — history when it
may be necessary for some to break the law in order to bear witness to
an evil, bring it to wider attention, and push for its correction.
Posted by Joshua Frank on December 18th, 2008 | Link
Posted by Joshua Frank on December 18th, 2008 | Link
And it looks like they will be a factor in his energy plan.
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on December 17th, 2008 | Link
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on December 17th, 2008 | Link
The Right to Food
Governance of the Global Food and Agricultural Systems
1. Preamble
The dramatic scope of the world hunger has now become fully
recognised. Widespread hunger riots and social unrest has at long last
made it obvious to the public and to governments that this
unacceptable failure of the global civilisation can no longer be
allowed to fester much more. It is now abundantly clear that
conventional approaches to food security have failed.
AK Press, June 2008
AK Press, May 2008
“A stunning, passionate book that takes you into the world where nature’s beauty is being savaged by the corrupt industrial-political complex.”
— Kirkpatrick Sale, author of After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination
