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- Why Bitcoin is so bad for the planet February 26, 2021
- House Ag Democrats February 25, 2021
- To Review Implementation of Farm Bill Conservation Programs February 25, 2021
- Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors February 25, 2021
- Book review: Bad science and bad arguments abound in ‘Apocalypse Never’ by M ichael Shellenberger » Yale Climate Connections February 25, 2021
- Who were the Neanderthals? | DW Documentary February 25, 2021
- When We Met Other Human Species February 25, 2021
- Wind and solar actually outperformed the forecast” According to Beto O’Rourke February 25, 2021
- Commonwealth Science Conference highlights Day 3 February 25, 2021
- This Week’s Space News February 25, 2021
- Witnessed by Satellites: Water nourishes arid land February 25, 2021
- Is the Steady State Progressive? – Center for the Advancement of the Steady State E conomy February 25, 2021
- Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (Reconsiderations in Southern African History): Diana Wylie February 25, 2021
- Mexico to ban glyphosate, GM corn: Presidential decree comes despite intense pressure from industry, US authorities | IATP February 25, 2021
- What is Sustainable Agriculture? Episode 1: A Whole-Farm Approach to Sustainability February 25, 2021
- Kristi Noem takes on Bill Gates’ latest environmental demands February 25, 2021
- Boston restores monument to Black Civil War troops February 25, 2021
- Vice President Harris Swears In Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture Virtually February 25, 2021
- Looking for Life on Mars | NOVA | PBS February 24, 2021
- Minimum Wage Maximum Rage (w/Bernie Sanders) February 24, 2021
- They Screwed Texas & People Died (w/ Greg Palast) February 24, 2021
- How this young prince seized power in Saudi Arabia February 24, 2021
- Dissident documentary sheds light on Saudi Arabia’s dark tactics February 24, 2021
- Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in the Food Movement February 24, 2021
- Restoring History – PBS NewsHour full episode, Feb. 24, 2021 February 24, 2021
- Vaccine Distribution Worldwide – PBS, Newshour, 24 February 2021 February 24, 2021
- Galaxy Song February 24, 2021
- Asylum Welcome – Oxford, U.K. February 24, 2021
- STAR Oxford – Student Action for Refugees | Facebook February 24, 2021
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need: Bill Gates February 24, 2021
- Decolonising SOAS February 24, 2021
- Decolonising the Curriculum Conference 2020 February 24, 2021
- What If the Sahara Desert Was Covered With Solar Panels? February 23, 2021
- earthrise – The Great Green Wall February 23, 2021
- What If We Terraformed the Sahara Desert? February 23, 2021
- Senegal’s massive reforestation project February 23, 2021
- Why this retired farmer plants trees | Regenerative Agriculture in Spain February 23, 2021
- How 50 million trees have changed the world February 23, 2021
- Tree Aid and the Great Green Wall February 23, 2021
- The Great Green Wall program : 10 years later, where are we ?” February 23, 2021
- Baobab & The Great Green Wall of Africa – Aduna February 23, 2021
- The Great Green Wall of Africa: Will it help fight climate change? BBC Newsnight February 23, 2021
- Why is Africa building a Great Green Wall? BBC News February 23, 2021
- David Attenborough Urges World Leaders To Confront Climate Catastrophe | NBC News NOW February 23, 2021
- ‘Climate change biggest security threat,’ David Attenborough tells UN February 23, 2021
- Sir David Attenborough | UN Security Council | 23 FEB 2021 | Extinction Rebellion UK February 23, 2021
- Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN – BBC News February 23, 2021
- Dr. Cornel West vs. Harvard University February 23, 2021
- Fukushima nuclear reactors leaking coolant after earthquake February 23, 2021
- This week’s Roundup from across XR | Extinction Rebellion UK February 23, 2021
Daily Archives: March 6, 2019
The record global warming streak of 2014-2016: a snowball’s chance in hell that this was natural – ImaGeo
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The Greatest Heist You’ve Never Heard Of | Retro Report | The New York Times
Published on Jan 7, 2014
One night in 1971, files were stolen from an F.B.I. office near Philadelphia. They proved that the bureau was spying on thousands of Americans. The case was unsolved, until now.
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Students Protest Yale’s Investments in Fossil Fuels, Puerto Rican Debt + Hampshi re College Students Stage Sit-In in Face of Closure Threat
Mar 06, 2019
At Yale University, 17 students were arrested by the school’s police Monday, after they occupied the investments office to demand Yale divest its nearly $30 billion endowment from fossil fuel companies and Puerto Rico’s debt. The student activists say that climate change worsens economic inequality, and that in the case of Puerto Rico, vulture funds holding the island’s debt are demanding repayment as many are still reeling from Hurricane Maria.
Mar 06, 2019
And in Massachusetts, students at Hampshire College have been staging a weeks-long sit-in in the president’s office, protesting what they fear may be the future shuttering of their school. In January, the president of Hampshire College announced they would seek to merge the school with a “strategic partner,” before laying off staff in the following weeks and announcing it would not be admitting a new class in the fall. This is a Hampshire College student with the group Hamp Rise Up, which has been organizing the protests.
Ola’i Wildeboar: “We’re fighting for transparency, better representation and an educational system that listens to us and actually serves our best interests. … It’s really tragic, the fact that schools like this are closing down so rapidly. And now that we’re here in the midst of this movement, I realize how important education is and how essential it is for these places to exist.”
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Groundwater in 39 States Contaminated by Coal Ash Waste
Mar 05, 2019
In environmental news, a new report finds that coal waste from hundreds of coal-fired power plants around the country has contaminated groundwater in 39 states with unsafe amounts of toxic chemicals. In some cases, the dangerous toxic substances, including arsenic, lithium and mercury, have leached into local drinking water supplies. The lead author of the report by the Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice said, “At a time when the Trump EPA—now being run by a former coal lobbyist—is trying to roll back federal regulations on coal ash, these new data provide convincing evidence that we should be moving in the opposite direction.”
See related:
- Ex-Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler Confirmed as EPA Administrator
- The Fox in Charge of the Henhouse: Activists Decry Trump’s EPA Pick, Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler
- Trump Nominates Ex-Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as Permanent EPA Head
- “Shame On You!” Protesters Interrupt Trump Admin Promoting Coal & Fossil F uels at U.N. Climate Talks
- Trump Boasts of Repealing U.S. Environmental Regulations + Expanding Oil & Gas “Production”
- Ex-Koch Official Overseeing EPA Water Regulations
- Climate-Change Denier President Donald Trump Has Rolled Back Numerous Environmental Regulations During First Two Years in Office
- New EPA Rules Would Roll Back Regulations on Mercury & Other Toxins
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Here’s what’s in your bottled water (Marketplace)
CBC News
Published on Apr 6, 2018
Ever wonder what’s lurking in your bottled water? Marketplace asked a lab to test five of the top-selling brands of bottled water in Canada, and microplastics were found in all of them. To read more: http://cbc.ca/1.4575045
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US Is Killing More Civilians Than EVER In Afghanistan
Published on Mar 6, 2019
According to new reports, the US hit a new milestone in 2018 by killing more civilians than ever in Afghanistan. The so-called “War on Terror” has actually been ramping up in recent years, with more and more bombs being dropped by the US in the Middle East, resulting in thousands of unnecessary deaths each year. We have no strategy to “win” this conflict, and we have no strategy on how to get out, which puts us in a deadly situation. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture: Johan Huizinga
2014 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In “Homo Ludens,” the classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-read” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting with Plato, Huizinga traces the contribution of “Homo Ludens,” or “Man the player” through Medieval Times, the Renaissance, and into our modern civilization. Huizinga defines play against a rich theoretical background, using cross-cultural examples from the humanities, business, and politics. “Homo Ludens” defines play for generations to come.
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How Do Americans Eat Differently Than 100 Years Ago And How Does This Affect Our Health?
The Real Truth About Health
Published on Mar 6, 2019
Lecture by McKay Jenkins author of Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet
• Staying Healthy in a Toxic World, The Harzardous Substances that American’s Eat, Breathe and Touch Everyday.
Do you know what chemicals are in your shampoo? How about your cosmetics? Do you know what’s in the plastic water bottles you drink from, or the weed killer in your garage, or your children’s pajamas? If you’re like most of us, the answer is probably no. But you also probably figured that most of these products were safe, and that someone—the manufacturers, the government—was looking out for you. The truth might surprise you.
After experiencing a health scare of his own, journalist McKay Jenkins set out to discover the truth about toxic chemicals, our alarming levels of exposure, and our government’s utter failure to regulate them effectively. Mckay Jenkins reveals how dangerous, and how common, toxins are in the most ordinary things, and in the most familiar of places.
McKay Jenkins has been writing about people and the natural world for 25 years. His most recent book, Poison Spring (Bloomsbury, 2014), co-written with E.G. Vallianatos, has been called a jaw-dropping expose of the catastrophic collusion between the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] and the chemical industry.(Booklist, starred review) He is also the author of What’s Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World (Random House, 2011), which chronicles his investigation into the myriad synthetic chemicals we encounter in our daily lives, and the growing body of evidence about the harm these chemicals do to our bodies and the environment. Jenkins holds degrees from Amherst, Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, and Princeton, where he received a PhD in English. A former staff writer for the Atlanta Constitution, he has also written for Outside, Orion, The New Republic, and many other publications. Jenkins is currently the Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English, Journalism and Environmental Humanities at the University of Delaware, where he has won the Excellence in Teaching Award.
“In the past few years, scientists have become increasingly worried about the growing presence of synthetic chemicals in our bodies, and in our environment — and the connection these chemicals may have to cancer, hormonal imbalances, and many other diseases. These are not just the toxins leaking out of industrial dumps — they are the chemicals leaking into us from the products we use every day: from cosmetics, cookware, and the fabric in our upholstery; from pharmaceuticals in our drinking water and the pesticides we spray on our lawns. I learned this the hard way. A few years ago, I discovered a surprise in my abdomen: a tumor the size of a baseball. An hour before I was to enter the operating room, researchers asked if I had ever been exposed to toxic chemicals. In my life, I asked?
This seemed like an odd question. What kind of chemicals do you mean? The researchers began reading from a list, which turned out to be very long. Some things I had heard of, many others I had not. Formaldehyde? Weed killers? Glues? Dry cleaning fluids? Detergents? Lacquers? Flame retardants? Plastic meat wrap? Plastic meat wrap? Clearly, what I knew about my chemical exposure history was pretty vague. I decided to search for clues. My new book, What’s Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World, takes a clear-eyed look at the ways everyday things may be making us sick, and shows how we can protect ourselves by making wiser, healthier choices.
It examines the way products are made and regulated (or, typically, not regulated); the way synthetic chemicals enter our bodies, and the latest research about what this chemical “body burden” may be doing to our health. It looks at our shopping habits, our drinking water, and our lawn care, and it ponders the ways advertising and marketing have blinded us to some pretty obvious problems.”
Food-matters,
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