Environment 2008 News Archives

2008 Headlines:

11/21/08 - The Price Carbon Campaign Launch
11/21/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #986 - How to Protect the Future
11/20/08 - Saving the Economy by Saving the Planet
11/20/08 - Study Bolsters Link Between Parkinson's, Pesticide
11/20/08 - Experts: Half World Faces Water Shortage by 2080
11/20/08 - Chemical Leading to Alligator Sterilization
11/20/08 - Bug Bombs Don't Just Kill Pests: People, Pets Also Sickened by Foggers
11/20/08 - Pesticide Buffer Zones Expanded to Protect Salmon
11/20/08 - Bush Tries to Kickstart U.S. Oil Shale Development
11/20/08 - Young Activists Fired Up in Fight Against Coal
11/20/08 - Obama's Commitment to Tackle Global Warming Welcomed, But He Must Go Further
11/20/08 - Toxic Farm Pesticides Threaten Pacific Salmon
11/19/08 - Beyond the Bailout: Agenda for a New Economy by David Korten
11/19/08 - The Animals and Plants We Cannot Live Without
11/19/08 - Water: Buying a Message on a Bottle
11/19/08 - The Great Transition: Money and the Crisis of Civilization
11/19/08 - Obama Vows to Reduce US Greenhouse Gas Pollution 80% by 2050
11/18/08 - Collateral Damage from Solar Panels & Computer Chips: The Greenhouse Gas That Nobody Knew
11/18/08 - Job Loss in the Climate-Destablizing, Petroleum-Guzzling, Bomb-Making Sectors of the Economy
11/18/08 - Fish Farming Fallacies
11/18/08 - Eating Local & Organic for Thanksgiving
11/18/08 - Earth Equity News (11/16/08)
11/18/08 - Rich Enough to Offset: Do Voluntary Carbon Markets Promote Luxury Emissions?
11/17/08 - More Schools Cultivating Organic School Gardens
11/17/08 - Where That "Recycled" E-Waste Really Goes
11/17/08 - Learning and Living Organic Lifestyle on Organic Farms with WWOOF
11/17/08 - Will the Down Economy Herald the Use of Natural Medicine?
11/17/08 - Web Video: New Revolutionary Tech Service Makes Ride-Sharing Easy
11/17/08 - Improve School Lunches with Organic Locally Grown Food
11/17/08 - General Motors Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered
11/15/08 - A Call to Action - Celebrating a New Day for the Earth
11/15/08 - Day of Action Against Coal
11/14/08 - Don Tyson Details Plans to Export the U.S. Meat Model of CAFOs to Global South
11/14/08 - Monsanto Purchases a Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol Company for $290 Million
11/14/08 - Pesticides More Dangerous Than Thought
11/14/08 - International Report Stokes Doubts over World's Climate Fight
11/14/08 - Grist Magazine Poll: Who Should be the Next Head of the EPA?
11/14/08 - Reports Show Less Water Used In Organic Farming
11/14/08 - Rachel's #985: The Other Carbon Dioxide Problem
11/13/08 - Fruit and Veggies Grow on Cinder-Block Walls
11/12/08 - Russian-American Analyst Dmitry Orlov: On the Current U.S. Recession--Five Stages of Collapse
11/12/08 - Peak Debt: The True Crisis May Be Our Inability to Afford the Dwindling Oil
11/12/08 - Saving 80% of Your Home's Energy the 'Passive Way'--Lessons from a Recent Home Retrofit
11/12/08 - Frances Moore Lappe: A Call for Guts
11/12/08 - Last Chance to Address the Crisis: The Climate for Change--Al Gore
11/12/08 - Cancer Society Turns Sights to Farm Pesticides
11/12/08 - Most States Can Be Energy Independent, New Report Shows
11/12/08 - Economic Recession: How to Live Below Your Means
11/11/08 - Court Ruling Protects Organic Farmers from Pesticide Drift
11/11/08 - Dreaming the Future Can Create the Future
11/11/08 - Local Climate Solutions Boldly Ambitious: Congress Will be Pressed Not to Undercut States Efforts
11/10/08 - European Support for Bicycles Promotes Sharing of the Wheels
11/10/08 - Are You Ready to Go On a Carbon Diet?
11/10/08 - How the Mobile Phone in Your Pocket is Helping to Pay for the Civil War in Congo
11/10/08 - Internet Revolution That Elected Obama Could Save Earth: Gore
11/10/08 - Earth Equity News (11/9/08)
11/10/08 - Cities, States Questioning Wisdom of Adding Fluoride Chemicals to Public Water Supplies
11/10/08 - Food Storage as Grandma Knew It
11/09/08 - Rachel's #984: Green Coal?
11/09/08 - Vandana Shiva: A Condemnation of Nuclear Power & the Kyoto Protocol
11/08/08 - Just a Match Away
11/07/08 - In Mayor's Plan, the Plastic Bag Will Carry a Fee
11/07/08 - Trapped in Black Tar: How the Oil Sands Made Canada a Suburb of Fort McMurray
11/07/08 - President Obama's Big Climate Challenge
11/07/08 - London's Capital Growth Project Promotes Community Food Gardens
11/06/08 - Why Small Plastic Particles May Pose a Big Problem in the Oceans
11/06/08 - Families Team Up to Buy Organic Foods Direct, at Discount
11/06/08 - President-Elect Obama Faces Challenge of a 'Planet in Peril'
11/05/08 - Ten Reasons to Buy Local Food & Organic Food
11/05/08 - Obama's Challenge -- And Ours
11/04/08 - Studies Tie Bacteria in Beef to Ethanol Byproduct
11/04/08 - Grist Magazine on Composting with Worms
11/04/08 - Earth Equity News (November 1, 2008)
11/03/08 - Web Video: Jared Diamond on Why Societies Collapse
11/03/08 - Green Jobs Plans Could Solve 'Twin Crises'
11/03/08 - Wanted: A Climate Bailout
11/03/08 - Arctic is Melting Even in Winter
11/03/08 - It Is Time to Change from Fighting Against Something to Fighting for Something, Van Jones
11/03/08 - Curse of the Falling Gas Prices
11/03/08 - Obama Cites Michael Pollan's Sun-Food Agenda
11/03/08 - Bill Clinton: "We Blew It" On Global Food
11/01/08 - Why is the 'Eat Less Meat' Message Such a Hard Sell?
11/01/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #983 - Is Nuclear Power Green?
10/31/08 - The Renewable Deal
10/31/08 - W's Not Going Quietly: Here's the Grand Slam Against Environmental and Other Regulations
10/31/08 - Earth Equity News (10/26/08)
10/30/08 - Ecologists Link Agricultural Chemicals and Potentially Devastating Infections in Amphibians
10/30/08 - How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth
10/28/08 - Alert of the Week: EPA Considers Weakening Fumigant Regulations
10/28/08 - OCA Policy Board Member Vandana Shiva Speaks at Slow Food Conference on New Visions for Responding to Climate Change
10/28/08 - Why You Need to Eat Organic Strawberries
10/28/08 - Van Jones Spreads Vital National Message: We Need Green Jobs to Simultaneously Address the Economic, Climate & Energy Crisis
10/27/08 - Lead Researcher on BPA Study Accepts $5 Million From Industry
10/27/08 - FDA Conspired with Chemical Industry to Declare Bisphenol-A Harmless
10/27/08 - Why You Want to Avoid Using Chemical Disinfectants
10/27/08 - James Kunstler: Are You Prepared for the Worst the Economy Has to Offer?
10/27/08 - Less Stuff --Especially for the Rich--Could Be Good News
10/27/08 - Manufacturing Thirst: The Hidden Water Costs of Our Industrial Economy
10/27/08 - Where Did We Go Astray? Brazilian Liberation Theology Leader Leonardo Boff Speaks Out
10/24/08 - How Organic Agriculture Can Feed the World & Address Climate Change
10/24/08 - As Sustainable Farming Takes Root, Green Thumbs Get Greener
10/24/08 - Hard Times & Home Cooked Meals: Restaurant Industry Is Starving for Customers
10/24/08 - How to Make a Meal From Your Market Basket
10/23/08 - Taking Politics Seriously: Looking Beyond the Election and Beyond Elections
10/23/08 - Organic Agriculture and Localized Food & Energy Systems for Mitigating Climate Change
10/23/08 - The Green New Deal: Our Last Chance to Save the Nation & the Planet
10/23/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #982
10/23/08 - Van Jones: How We Can Lead Our Country Out of Crisis
10/22/08 - Election Guide: Saving the Environment May be Our Best Hope for the Economy
10/22/08 - Ban on Pesticides May Face NAFTA Test
10/22/08 - Global Recession? Must Be Time for the Media's Alternative Energy Backlash
10/22/08 - Earth Equity News, from the Climate Crisis Coalition (October 19, 2008)
10/22/08 - Will Medicare Break the Bank?
10/22/08 - Organic Farming 'Could Feed Africa'
10/22/08 - Organic Sector Still Growing Despite Economic Recession
10/22/08 - Crunch May Put Price Tag On Environment
10/22/08 - Whatever Happened to Cellulosic Ethanol?
10/21/08 - Global Oil Production Probably Peaked in July, 2008 - How Long Before Gasoline & Heating Prices Rise Again?
10/21/08 - How to Green Your Halloween
10/21/08 - Buyers' Guide to Canada's Sustainable Forest Products Released
10/21/08 - Homemade Baby Food: Yummy, Nutritious And Economical
10/21/08 - Lead and Smoke Are Key Causes of ADHD: Study
10/20/08 - Don't Kill the Planet in the Name of Saving the Economy
10/20/08 - How Environmental Activist Van Jones' Book "The Green Collar Economy" Reached The NYT Best Sellers List
10/20/08 - Ted Glick Reviews Three New Important Books on the Climate Crisis
10/19/08 - A Green New Deal is Essential if We Are to Enjoy a Sustainable Prosperity
10/19/08 - Inside Hanford : A Trip to America's Most Toxic Place
10/19/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #981
10/18/08 - US Climate Change Activists Go On Trial, Climate Scientist, James Hansen, Supports Them & The Cause, UK
10/17/08 - The Media Miss the Story on Food's Connection to Climate Change
10/16/08 - Rising Food Prices? Grow Your Own Organic Garden!
10/16/08 - Climate Change & Biodiversity Destruction
10/16/08 - New Consumer Guide Points to Health and Environmental Risks of Sludge Use in Food Production
10/16/08 - THE SCOOP - October 2008 Organic Center Newsletter
10/15/08 - Organic Bytes Co-author on Weather Channel's "Forecast Earth"
10/15/08 - Book Review: Green Inc. - How Environmental Groups Sometimes Do Corporations' Dirty Work
10/15/08 - Peak Money: Steady State Economics is Part of the Solution to the Global Financial Crash
10/14/08 - Personal Liberties at Stake in Raw Milk Issue
10/14/08 - Organic Transitions: Beyond the Gloom & Doom of Economic Depression, Climate Change, & Peak Oil
10/14/08 - As Food Prices Rise, Fertilizer Shortage Now Threatens World's Conventional (Non-Organic) Farms
10/14/08 - Financial Crisis Signals the End of a Really Crazy Era
10/14/08 - Fiscal Woes Could Delay Climate Change Efforts
10/13/08 - Open Letter to the President-Elect by Michael Pollan: Farmer in Chief
10/13/08 - What the Chemical Industry Doesn't Want You to Know About Everyday Products
10/13/08 - Stop Being a Narcissist -- It's Time to Quit Facebook
10/12/08 - The Agrofuels Hoax: The Perils of the Coming Sugar Economy
10/12/08 - Earth Equity News, from the Climate Crisis Coalition (10/12/08)
10/10/08 - Paraguayan Farmers Occupy Large Brazilian-Owned Farms to Block the Entry of Genetically-Modified Soy
10/10/08 - Scientists Say Destruction of Forests Causing Greater Losses Than Bank Crisis
10/10/08 - Bicycle Commuter Tax Break Is a Bittersweet Victory for Measure's Sponsor
10/10/08 - Grist Magazine On Green Cookware
10/09/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #980
10/09/08 - FEED - Food & Environment Electronic Digest - October 2008
10/09/08 - Food Security Challenges Health of Rural People and Communities
10/09/08 - U.S. City Dwellers Flock to Raising Chickens
10/09/08 - How & Why To Buy Green & Organic Textiles & Furniture
10/08/08 - U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Call for Urgent Review of Biofuel Subsidies
10/08/08 - Let's Stop the Cancer Epidemic
10/08/08 - Organic Transition Tips: Composting, Clothes Washing, and Canning 101
10/08/08 - Much at Stake for Agriculturally Dependent Communities in Climate Change
10/08/08 - Depressed by Pesticides: Study Links Farmworker Psychiatric Disorders With Toxin Exposure
10/08/08 - Uniting Around Local & Organic Food to Save an Ailing Town
10/08/08 - Corporations Have Big Plans to Profit from Global Warming
10/07/08 - It's Autumn, Leave Those Leaves!
10/07/08 - A Tour of CAFO's in North Carolina
10/07/08 - Transition Tip of the Week: Weblinks for Homesteaders
10/07/08 - Green, Inc. Author Says Big Environmental Groups Have Sold Out to Big Business
10/07/08 - Why Declining Prices & Stock Markets Are Historically Not Necessarily a Bad Thing
10/06/08 - Fossil Fuel Independence Now! By Ted Glick
10/06/08 - Starbucks Wastes Millions of Litres of Water a Day
10/05/08 - Earth Equity News (October 5, 2008)
10/04/08 - Green Building & Co-Housing Movement Starting to Take Off
10/03/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #979 (October 2, 2008)
10/03/08 - Is the Toxic Chemical BPA in Canned Food Linings a Hazard for Pets, As Well As Humans?
10/02/08 - Important New Book: The Green Collar Economy - How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems - by Van Jones
10/02/08 - While Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs Flourish, a House Subcommittee Buries its Head
10/01/08 - Hundreds of Hazardous US Chemicals and Consumer Products Will Be Impacted by European Union Precautionary Principle (REACH) Regulation
10/01/08 - Organic Farm Contaminated by Pesticides Wins $1M Verdict
10/01/08 - Open Letter to Monsanto From Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims
09/30/08 - California Launches Broad Effort to Control Hazardous Chemicals
09/29/08 - Citing Cost, USDA Kills Pesticide-Testing Program
09/29/08 - Earth Equity News (September 28, 2008)
09/29/08 - Most Industries Remain Dependent on Hazardous Substances
09/29/08 - U.S. GAO Report: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: EPA Needs More Information and a Clearly Defined Strategy to Protect Air and Water Quality from Pollutants of Concern
09/29/08 - UK's Soil Association Urges Ban on Pesticides to Halt Bee Deaths
09/29/08 - Huge Nationwide Rallies Call for 'Green Jobs Now!'
09/27/08 - Global Warming Pollution Increases 3 Percent in 2007
09/27/08 - Rachel's #978: It's Time
09/27/08 - Growing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Shock Scientists
09/26/08 - GAO: EPA Has Seriously Botched CAFO Oversight
09/26/08 - New Research Shows That Ethanol Will Continue to Increase the Cost of Wheat
09/26/08 - Earth Equity News (September 21, 2008)
09/26/08 - Study Finds Rising Nitrates In Ground Water
09/26/08 - What the Economy Needs Now Are Good, Green Jobs
09/26/08 - Our Soy Habit Has Environmental Consequences
09/26/08 - White House Stops EPA From Regulating Perchlorate
09/25/08 - UN: Tackling Climate Change Will Boost - Not Destroy - Jobs
09/25/08 - "Curse of Black Mesa" Took Down Lehman Bros
09/24/08 - Latest "Top 25 Censored Stories" from Project Censored
09/24/08 - Friends of the Earth Rejects Forest Stewardship Council Label for Sustainable Forestry & Wood Products
09/24/08 - Electricity From What Cows Leave Behind
09/24/08 - Report: More Factory Farming But Oversight Lags
09/24/08 - Northeastern, West Coast Women Have High Mercury Levels
09/24/08 - The Methane Time Bomb: Arctic Scientists Discover New Global Warming Threat
09/24/08 - World's Soils in Sharp Decline; Global Food Shortage to Follow
09/23/08 - EPA Won't Limit Toxic Pollutant, Perchlorate, In Drinking Water
09/23/08 - Why We Desperately Need to Address the Climate, Energy, Food, & Financial Crises Simultaneously
09/23/08 - Oil Industry Insider, Matt Simmons, Warns that Calamity of Peak Oil is Fast Approaching
09/23/08 - Grist Magazine On the Importance of Voting
09/22/08 - Website Recommendation: Online Climate Time Machine
09/22/08 - Atrazine Found in Lakes Far From Farm Sources
09/20/08 - Rachel's #977: Chemicals and Diabetes
09/19/08 - The Key Political, Economic, and Cultural Needs of Young Farmers
09/19/08 - Eco-Community in Mountains of West Wales Triumphs over Officialdom
09/19/08 - States Accuse Pentagon Of Threats, Retaliation
09/19/08 - Potential Environmental Risks Aren't Part of Chemical Engineers' Training, Poisoning Our Young
09/18/08 - Perchlorate and Iodine: A Novel Focus on Newborns
09/18/08 - Grist Magazine Interviews Anna Lappe on Climate Change and Food
09/18/08 - Physicists: U.S. Could Cut Oil Use with Better Houses, Cars
09/17/08 - Tips on Green Campus Organizing
09/17/08 - Mud, Glorious Mud: Homes Made of Earth
09/17/08 - What the Chemical Industry Doesn't Want You to Know about Everyday Products
09/16/08 - Companies Move Toward Nontoxic Chemicals and Products
09/16/08 - Feminized Toads Linked to Farms
09/16/08 - Communities Plan for a Low-Energy Future
09/16/08 - Consumers Ditching the Bottle for the Tap
09/16/08 - Bayer Cropscience Explosion: Too Many Hands Trying Too Hard
09/16/08 - Tapping Power From Trash
09/15/08 - Proposed Cuts to Agriculture Conservation Programs
09/14/08 - Practical Ways to Care for The Earth
09/14/08 - Earth Equity News (9/14/08)
09/14/08 - Small Protests Can Beat the Big Guys
09/14/08 - Tell Congress to Stop Bill Authorizing Unlimited Subsidies for Building New Nuclear Plants
09/13/08 - Electronic Smog 'is Disrupting Nature on a Massive Scale'
09/12/08 - Sex, Drugs, and Offshore Drilling: Mother Jones
09/12/08 - Drugs Affect More Drinking Water
09/12/08 - What's So Eco About All Those Eco-Meat Labels?
09/12/08 - The Future's Greener
09/12/08 - Parents of Limbless Boy Tell of Being Sprayed With Pesticide During Work
09/12/08 - Earth Equity News (9/11/08)
09/12/08 - What is Your Dinner Doing to the Climate?
09/12/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #976
09/12/08 - What UK Greenpeace Jury Acquittal Means for Global Anti-Coal & Climate Activists
09/12/08 - A Water Fight in Maine
09/11/08 - Kosher Industry Looks to Future in Wake of Agriprocessors
09/11/08 - Freshwater Fish in North America in Peril, Study Says
09/11/08 - FEED - Union of Concerned Scientists (September 2008)
09/10/08 - An Alaska Native Speaks Out on Palin, Oil, and Alaska
09/10/08 - New Report: Green Investment Will Yield Two Million New Jobs in Two Years
09/10/08 - States Battle Pesticides in Groundwater
09/10/08 - Pet Food Politics: Why Our Pets Still Aren't Safe
09/10/08 - Environmentalists, Unions Call for Green-Jobs Plan
09/09/08 - Ability of Rural Areas to Retain and Attract Young People Dependent on Local Ownership
09/08/08 - Earth Equity News (September 7, 2008)
09/08/08 - The World Spends $300 Billion Subsidizing Fossil Fuels
09/08/08 - UN Says Eat Less Meat to Curb Global Warming
09/08/08 - Solar Energy Can Meet All the World's Energy Demands
09/08/08 - Organic Transitions: Building an Anti-Economy
09/08/08 - Addressing the Climate & Energy Crisis: Let's Use Wind to Power Cars
09/08/08 - Just Say No to Drugs in Our Rivers: Cities Still Not Filtering out Pharmaceutical Drugs from Municipal Drinking Water
09/07/08 - Congress Holds Solar and Wind Power Hostage - Again
09/05/08 - Study: Women Living in Mercury's Shadow
09/05/08 - Bisphenol A May Impair Learning and Memory
09/05/08 - Rachel's #975: A Grass-Roots Surge to Stop Coal
09/05/08 - U.S. Food and Water Supply Poisoned by Perchlorate
09/05/08 - Ecuador Voters to Decide if Nature Has Inalienable Rights
09/05/08 - Wal-Mart and Tiffany Try to Greenwash the Toxic Gold-Mining Industry
09/04/08 - Chart Shows Climate / Hunger / Energy / Resource Depletion Doomsday Clock is Ticking
09/04/08 - Arctic Melting Shows Global Warming Serious
09/04/08 - Comparing Obama & McCain on Ethanol, Corporate Globalization & GMOs
09/03/08 - Slow Food Nation Attracts 50,000--Organic, Local, & Fair Trade to Help Solve the Climate, Health & Energy Crisis
09/03/08 - Escalating Oil Prices Mean Organic Food Will Soon Be Cheaper than Chemical & Energy Intensive Industrial Food
09/02/08 - Top Ten Most Disturbing Facts and Impressions of Sarah Palin
09/02/08 - Slow Food Movement Picks Up Momentum in the USA
09/01/08 - The Good News in Catastrophic Times: We Are Hard-Wired to Care and Connect
09/01/08 - Preparing for Climate Chaos & Peak Oil: The Top Twelve Foods for Long Term Storage
08/31/08 - Three Years After: The Failure to Learn From Katrina
08/29/08 - Military Analyst Warns of Coming 'Climate Wars' Unless Global Warming is Reversed
08/28/08 - The Greatest Failure of Thought in Human History: Global Warming
08/27/08 - EPA Scientists Pull Study That Found C8 in Eggs
08/27/08 - Dispatch from Denver: Making Climate Change THE Issue
08/27/08 - Chemical Pollutants Likely Culprits in Rising Birth Defects
08/27/08 - Bayer Pesticides Cause Mass Death of Bees
08/27/08 - 09.27.08 Green Jobs Now!
08/26/08 - Fresh Vegetables, by the Jarful
08/26/08 - Half of All Food Produced Worldwide is Wasted
08/26/08 - New Research Finds Higher-Than-Expected Levels of Pesticides in Hives
08/25/08 - Cornell Chronicle: Eating Healthier Could Cut Energy Use
08/25/08 - Even Five-Star Restaurants Can't Be Trusted for Healthy Food
08/25/08 - Victory Gardens Symbolize a New Age
08/25/08 - Drinking Water of 41 Million Americans Contaminated with Pharmaceuticals
08/25/08 - How Cities Across the World Are Promoting Urban Agriculture
08/25/08 - Food, Fuel and Water Crises Converging
08/24/08 - Obama and Big Corn
08/23/08 - Rachel's #973: The General Motors Solution
08/23/08 - Post Peak Oil: Losing Control by Richard Heinberg
08/22/08 - Exposure to Certain Pesticides During Pregnancy Increases the Risk of Overweight Children
08/22/08 - Non-Organic Companies Slammed for Destroying Rainforests to Source Palm Oil
08/21/08 - Globalization Death Watch, Part III: Either We'll be Green or We'll Be Poor
08/21/08 - World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis
08/21/08 - Water Scarcity Will Only Be Tackled If We Change the Way We Eat
08/21/08 - Millions of World's Farmers Forced to Turn to Raw Sewage for Irrigation
08/21/08 - Don't Believe the Lying Promises of Monsanto & the Biotech Industry
08/21/08 - Cuisine in the Age of Chaos: The Dead Zone Diet
08/21/08 - Do Native Americans Have First Amendment Rights?
08/21/08 - Transition Culture: Beyond the Gloom & Doom of Peak Oil, Permanent War, and Climate Chaos
08/20/08 - Arsenic Has Firm Link to Diabetes in U.S. Study
08/20/08 - Responsibility of The FDA and National Cancer Institute For Cosmetics Related Escalating Cancer Rates
08/20/08 - A Review of Some Home Cleaning Products
08/20/08 - In Human Fat Tissue, Bisphenol A Inhibits Release of a Hormone That Protects People From Diabetes and Heart Attacks.
08/20/08 - Wastewater Fears for Urban Farms
08/20/08 - Local Control and Organic Solutions: Choices for a Sustainable Future
08/20/08 - What We Have Now is Geopolitical Peak Oil
08/20/08 - Home Depot: Do the Right Thing, Dump Monsanto!
08/19/08 - How To Start Composting
08/19/08 - Study: Fish Kills, Herbicide Possibly Linked
08/19/08 - Rodale Institute Newsletter: Motivating Steps Toward Sustainability
08/19/08 - Big Green Groups Sell Out Forest Protection Activists in Idaho Struggle
08/19/08 - Hazards of Untreated Wastewater Used for Agriculture in Developing Nations
08/19/08 - Slow Food Nation: A Modest Proposal for Sustainable Eating
08/18/08 - Is Obama's Energy Plan Change We Can Believe In?
08/18/08 - An End To Mountaintop Removal Mining?
08/18/08 - Lead May Lurk in Backyard Gardens
08/18/08 - McCain's Lies & Damn Lies on Climate Change
08/17/08 - Climate Change Is Already Affecting the West's Water
08/17/08 - Rachel's #972: Hidden Importance of Commerce Clause
08/17/08 - Earth Equity News (August 15, 2008)
08/16/08 - German Beekeepers Slam Bayer & Pesticide-Intensive Agriculture for Killing off the Bees
08/16/08 - Suffocating Dead Zones Spread Across World's Oceans
08/15/08 - A Viable, Alternative Bio-Fuel is Rarely Mentioned
08/15/08 - In Arkansas, a New GMO/Herbicide Solution to a Problem Created by an Old One
08/15/08 - Amid Collapsing Fisheries and Factory-Farmed Salmon, How to Choose Sustainable Seafood
08/15/08 - Oregon Creates Hot Jobs in Green Energy
08/14/08 - Mirrors to Concentrate Solar Power Could Power Millions of Homes
08/14/08 - Russia and Georgia: All About Oil
08/14/08 - Globalization Is Destroying the World's Oceans
08/14/08 - Corporations Become Prime Driver of Deforestation, Providing Clear Target for Environmentalists
08/13/08 - Study Looks at Health of Farmworkers
08/13/08 - Rising Gas Prices Prompt Consumers to Curb Energy Intensive Lifestyles
08/13/08 - Union of Concerned Scientists FEED (August 2008)
08/12/08 - The Looming Nuclear Nightmare in the Backwoods of North Carolina
08/12/08 - New Paths Toward the Loss of Our Public Lands
08/11/08 - Burgers or Biofuel?: The Role of Animal Feeding in Global Warming
08/11/08 - Ecuadorian Assembly Approves Constitutional Rights for Nature
08/11/08 - Climate Change: Prepare for Global Temperature Rise of 4C, Warns Top Scientist
08/10/08 - Earth Equity News (August 10, 2008)
08/08/08 - Auto Painting Goes Green
08/08/08 - John Stauber & Source Watch on Big Green: How the Big Environmental Groups Have Failed the Grassroots
08/08/08 - Carcinogen Worries Stick to Food Packaging
08/08/08 - Obama, McCain, Green Jobs and Climate Solutions
08/07/08 - California Fights Nestle's Plan to Bottle Pristine Waters
08/07/08 - I-Team Investigates: Pesticide-laced Organic Foods Follow Up
08/06/08 - Democratic National Convention Goes Green
08/06/08 - Common, EPA-OK'd Insecticides Causing Health Problems
08/06/08 - How To Green Your Grocery List
08/06/08 - Exposed: Europe's GM-Hype in Times of Food and Fuel Crisis
08/06/08 - Color It Green
08/05/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #970
08/05/08 - Bottled Water's Shocking Impacts and the Growing Opposition
08/05/08 - Greenwashed: Cargill Snags ISO Environmental Certification
08/05/08 - Bringing Peak Oil, Climate Crisis, Peace & Other Progressive Movements Together--Before It's Too Late
08/05/08 - Richard Heinberg on Coal & Climate
08/05/08 - Greenpeace's Rex Weyler: Prescriptions for Survival in the Post-Peak Oil Era
08/05/08 - How to Survive the Triple Whammy of Energy, Food and Climate Crises
08/05/08 - Earth Equity News (August 1, 2008)
08/04/08 - Health Hazards in Household Cleaners Exposed
08/04/08 - Current Livestock Production System Contributing to Global Warming
08/04/08 - Living Near Freeway Could Harm Pregnant Women: Study
08/04/08 - Massive 'Dead Zone' in The Gulf of Mexico: Collateral Damage from Chemical Farming
08/04/08 - Hurricanes Feed Environmental Fears About Hog Lagoons
08/04/08 - Good News for a Change: Solar Power Breakthrough Stores Energy for Later Use
08/04/08 - Environmental Groups File Suit Against Wal-Mart For Green Initiative Failures
08/03/08 - Fresh Scents or Toxic Chemicals in Household Products?
08/03/08 - The Oceanic Crisis: Capitalism and the Degradation of Marine Ecosystems
08/03/08 - The Climate Costs of a Glass of Milk
08/03/08 - EPA Approves Coal-Fired Plant Despite Opposition from Navajo Nation
08/01/08 - Sierra Club Urges EPA to Protect Honey Bees from Toxic Pesticides
08/01/08 - 'Oil From Algae' Promises Climate Friendly Fuel; Environmentalists Remain Cautious
08/01/08 - International Coalition Emerges to Protect Great Lakes Waters Against Private Exploitation
08/01/08 - USDA Stops Collecting Data on Toxic Pesticides and Chemical Fertilizer Use
07/31/08 - EPA Silences Employees
07/30/08 - US Blacks Face Harsher Climate Change Impact
07/30/08 - Green Patriot Radio Interview with OCA's Ronnie Cummins on Starbucks and Traveling Green
07/30/08 - Twelve Natural Health Tips for Smart Travel
07/28/08 - The Forest Products Industry in Public Education
07/28/08 - Organic Agriculture, World Hunger and Global Warming: Report from the IFOAM Organic World Congress
07/26/08 - Monsanto's New Front Group
07/25/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #969 (July 24, 2008)
07/25/08 - Earth Equity News (July 25, 2008)
07/25/08 - Lawsuit Asks EPA to End Use of Hazardous Pesticide in USA
07/25/08 - Ethanol Production Soars but Opposition Mounts
07/25/08 - Monsanto & ADM Set Up New Front Group to Deflect Ethanol Criticism & to Promote GMOs
07/23/08 - In the EPA's Midwestern Division, A Pro-Industry Stalwart Replaces a Dioxin Stickler
07/23/08 - On the Washington Post's Call to Gut the Conservation Reserve Program
07/23/08 - The Soil Food Web: The Dirtiest Scandal of All
07/22/08 - Climate Report Calls for Green "New Deal"
07/22/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #968
07/22/08 - Destruction of Wetlands Could Unleash Carbon Bomb
07/22/08 - The Peak Oil Crisis: Blackouts Spread Across the Globe
07/21/08 - Obama Shifts Stance on Environmental & Climate Issues
07/21/08 - Earth Equity News (July 18, 2008)
07/21/08 - UK: Beans May Be Off the Menu Due to Fewer Bumblebees
07/21/08 - The U.S. Economic, Climate, Food & Energy Crisis: You Say You Want a Revolution?
07/21/08 - Open Letter to Al Gore: You Can Have Your Meat and Eat It Too
07/19/08 - Thinking Twice About Using Crop Waste for Biofuels
07/19/08 - Warming Is Major Threat To Humans, EPA Warns
07/18/08 - Carrots, Sticks, And Crumbs: Making the Most of the 2007/2008 Farm Bill and Getting Ready for 2012
07/18/08 - Wendell Berry on Mountaintop Removal
07/17/08 - Crist May Decide Fate of Natural Gas Port Off Fort Lauderdale
07/16/08 - Crunchtime for Mexico's Oil
07/15/08 - Green Change: Global Warming May Lead to More Kidney Stones
07/15/08 - Appalachian Residents Have Found the Antidote to Coal
07/15/08 - The Food, Energy, Climate, and Financial Crisis: Naomi Klein Reexamines 'The Shock Doctrine'
07/13/08 - More Offshore Oil Drilling? Not So Fast
07/13/08 - US Court Slaps Down Pollution Law
07/13/08 - Innovation Fuels Solar Power Drive
07/13/08 - Study Links Global Warming to More Smog
07/13/08 - Earth Equity News, July 13, 2008
07/12/08 - Corn, Incorporated: The Ethanol Scam
07/12/08 - Too Little & Too Late: EPA Proposes Stricter Rules on Soil Fumigant Pesticides
07/12/08 - Native American March on DC to Protest Global Warming & Environmental Destruction
07/11/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #967 (July 10, 2008)
07/10/08 - Tom Philpott on The 'Secret' World Bank Biofuel Report
07/10/08 - Coal Makes Us Sick
07/09/08 - The Toxic Consequences of the Green Revolution
07/09/08 - Regulating Pesticides: A Balance of Risk
07/09/08 - Michael Pollan on What's Wrong with Environmentalism
07/09/08 - Farm Chemicals Turn Male Toads Female
07/09/08 - Living On Earth: Manure Magic
07/09/08 - A Climate Threat From Flat TVs, Microchips
07/09/08 - Mayors Vote to End Taxpayer Spending on Bottled Water
07/08/08 - World Food Shortage and the Ethanol Bubble
07/08/08 - Union of Concerned Scientists FEED, July 2008
07/08/08 - Who Ate My Tortillas? -- The Truth About Food vs. Fuel
07/07/08 - EU Considers Dumping Biofuels While U.S. Continues to Bully Global South to Adopt Gene-Altered Crops
07/07/08 - A Word To The Water Wise
07/07/08 - Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion by Naomi Klein
07/06/08 - Vintage Wendell Berry: On the Pleasures of Eating
07/06/08 - Overview on the Life or Death Crisis of Peak Oil
07/06/08 - Climate Change: Getting All Our Lemmings in a Row
07/06/08 - Flooding, After the Deluge, and the Politics of Toxic Mold
07/06/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed, July 6, 2008
07/06/08 - NY Times--The Global Food Crisis is Being Caused by Disastrous Farming, Trade, & Energy Policies
07/05/08 - New Report: Millions of US Workers Stand to Gain from Green Industries
07/04/08 - U.S. Caves Into Lobbyists Over Massive Bee Deaths
07/04/08 - Consuming Passions: End of the Line for Rampant Consumerism
07/04/08 - White House Tried to Silence EPA Proposal on Car Emissions
07/04/08 - World Bank Approves Climate Funds Before G8 Summit
07/04/08 - Secret Report: Biofuels Are Causing Food Crisis
07/04/08 - Peak Oil: The Final Warning
07/03/08 - 'We Are Running Out of Environment'
07/03/08 - Deconstructing Monsanto's Propaganda that Bovine Growth Hormone Will Reduce Global Warming
07/02/08 - Investors' Growing Appetite for Oil Evades Market Limits
07/02/08 - Oil and Gas Drilling on Public Lands Reaches New High
07/02/08 - Greenville Injection Project Could Have Global Implications
07/02/08 - Companies Try to Cash in on Green Trend, But Should Consumers Buy it?
07/02/08 - Organizations Help Consumers Pick Healthy and Eco-Friendly Seafood
07/02/08 - Infant Formula Cans Lined With Toxic Chemical BPA
07/01/08 - Bottled Water Industry Faces Growing Opposition
07/01/08 - Climate-Change Litigation: Will the Legal Strategy that Brought Down Big Tobacco Work Against Big Oil?
07/01/08 - Alert: Moratorium on Agrofuel Incentives
06/30/08 - States Taking Initiative on Environmental & Climate Crisis while Feds Do Little or Nothing
06/30/08 - Making the Climate Crisis a Priority
06/30/08 - White House Blocks Key EPA Emissions Document on Greenhouse Gas Pollution
06/29/08 - The Climate Crisis: When Words Fail
06/29/08 - End of the Petroleum Age?
06/29/08 - The Alternative to War in Iraq & Iran: Kill the Gas-Guzzler and Declare Economic War Against Oil
06/29/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed (June 29, 2008)
06/28/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #965
06/28/08 - Low Sperm Counts and Deformed Penises: The Chemical Industry Has a Hold on Your Reproductive Future
06/28/08 - Small Farms Are Best for the Environment, Climate Stability, & Feeding the World's Population
06/28/08 - Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Catastrophic Tipping Points Near
06/27/08 - Dairy Industry Commits to Reducing Greenhouse Gases
06/27/08 - Whole Foods and Wal-Mart Execs Agree: We're Not Green
06/27/08 - U.S. Mayors Call for Boycott of Alberta Oilsands
06/26/08 - California Requires Greenhouse Gas Labels on Cars
06/26/08 - Mayors Urge Stop to Bottled Water Use
06/26/08 - Legal Action Filed to Outlaw Dangerous Nano-Silver Products
06/26/08 - Supreme Court Slashes Punitive Award in Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by 80%
06/25/08 - Can Sustainable Agriculture Save the World? New Film Says Yes!
06/25/08 - Take This Quiz to Find Out if You are a Water Waster or Saver
06/25/08 - Earth Near Tipping Point, Climatologist Warns
06/24/08 - We're in Chemical Overload
06/24/08 - Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol
06/24/08 - Germany, France Ban Pesticides Linked to Bee Deaths; Geneticist Urges US Ban
06/24/08 - EU Toughens Pesticide Rules
06/24/08 - Put Oil Firm Chiefs On Trial, Says Leading Climate Change Scientist
06/24/08 - Harry Reid Puts Mining Reform in a Deep Hole
06/23/08 - Coastal Governors Pledge to Protect Oceans from Offshore Drilling
06/23/08 - Controversy Surrounds Calypso Liquified Natural Gas Deepwater Port
06/23/08 - Yes, We Will Have No Bananas
06/23/08 - Behind the White House & UK Propaganda on Iraq: Peak Oil & Contractor Profits
06/23/08 - Fighting Climate Change: Food Miles vs. Food Choices
06/23/08 - Good News: Aerial Pesticide Spraying of Urban Areas Suspended
06/23/08 - Are You Allergic to Wireless Internet?
06/23/08 - Truth or Consequences - The Real Life Version
06/23/08 - Over 80% of Americans Say Country is Moving in the Wrong Direction
06/23/08 - Growing Strength-and Divide-in Climate Opinion
06/22/08 - The Great Pesticide Debate
06/22/08 - Biggest Firms Call for Huge Cuts in Emissions to Start Green Industrial Revolution
06/22/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed, June 22, 2008
06/21/08 - Solutions to the Global Food Crisis
06/21/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #964
06/20/08 - Texas Cotton Crop Hit Hard by Sand Storms And Heat
06/20/08 - Big Bad Boom: Radioactive Deja Vu in the Ever More Water Deficient American West
06/20/08 - Pesticide Dangers to Human Health Carry Through Multiple Generations
06/20/08 - Corn Utensils Not Helpful Without Widespread Public Composting
06/19/08 - Colorado's Chemical Injection
06/19/08 - How Grocery Stores are Emptying the Seas & Carting Away the Oceans
06/19/08 - Iowa Flooding Could Be An Act of Man, Experts Say
06/19/08 - Mother Earth's Triple Whammy: Why We Must Address the Energy, Climate & Food Crises Simultaneously
06/18/08 - Mark Bittman on Minimizing Meat
06/18/08 - Midwest Floods Recede, What's Being Washed Into the Groundwater?
06/18/08 - As Fertilizer Flows From the Midwest, a Vast Algae Bloom Thrives Below the Mississippi
06/18/08 - GE Wheat is Not the Solution to Drought
06/18/08 - Vanishing Topsoil Threatens Sustainability of Human Life on Earth
06/18/08 - Campaign Against Soybean Planting in the Amazon Gaining Momentum
06/18/08 - The Genetically Engineered Biofuels Hoax: A Dangerous Delusion
06/17/08 - How Green is that Product? Consumers Want to Know
06/17/08 - Toyota Announces Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle will be Ready by 2010
06/17/08 - The US Must Enter the Global Green Economy --Before It's Too Late
06/17/08 - Human Cost of Brazil's Biofuels Boom
06/17/08 - Extreme Weather & Global Warming
06/17/08 - Midwest Floods, Food Inflation & Biofuels: Latest News
06/17/08 - Bayer & Monsanto: Who's Responsible for Selling the Most Chemical Poisons to Farmers & Gardeners?
06/17/08 - Despite Biotech Propaganda, Non-Genetically Engineered Crops Still Dominate Global Farming & Ranching with 97% of all Farmland
06/16/08 - Bottled Water: How Americans Got Sucked into a Corporate Con Game
06/16/08 - Steal a Tree Go to Prison; Steal a Forest Meet the President
06/16/08 - Biofuel Backlash: High Prices, Pollution Worries Hit Consumers
06/16/08 - Sierra Group's Deal with Clorox goes Sour
06/16/08 - U.S. Cities Promote Bicycling as Gas Prices Soar
06/16/08 - Catching Up: What the U.S. Must Do to Enter the Global Green Economy
06/15/08 - Four Dollars a Gallon Gasoline and Climate Change Both Call for the Same Solution: Collective Investment in Clean Energy
06/14/08 - Peak Oil & The Energy Crisis: Imagining a World Without Flight
06/14/08 - Food Crisis: USA Crop Forecasts Mean Higher Prices & Mounting Anger Against Food Commodity Speculators
06/14/08 - Grist Magazine Q&A with Van Jones about the Climate Security Act and Green Jobs
06/14/08 - Water Pressure
06/14/08 - Historic Battle Against Privatization of National Oil Industry in Mexico
06/14/08 - Top Ten Reasons to Go Vegetarian
06/14/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #963 (June 12, 2008)
06/13/08 - Smaller Restaurants Add Up to Green Savings
06/13/08 - The Food, Climate, & Energy Crisis: From Panic to Organic by Ronnie Cummins
06/12/08 - Toward A Greener Blacktop
06/12/08 - New European Chemical Safety Law Has Global Impact
06/12/08 - Vinyl Shower Curtains Release 100 Toxic Chemicals
06/12/08 - Hospital Projects May Need Green Seal
06/12/08 - Climate Chaos is Inevitable - But Can We Avoid Climate Catastrophe?
06/12/08 - San Francisco Approves Nation's Largest Solar Incentive Program
06/11/08 - Tests Reveal Chemical Vapors that May Invade Homes
06/11/08 - Our 'Cheap Oil Fiesta' Is Over
06/11/08 - The Food & Farming Crisis: Wave of Grassroots Protests Across Brazil
06/11/08 - High Lead Levels Close Local Ballfields
06/10/08 - New York Funds Alternative Fuel Vehicles for Private Fleets
06/10/08 - Mothers and Children call on Senate for Stronger Climate Legislation
06/10/08 - Federal Climate Crisis Bill: A Disaster Brought to You by The Nation's Leading Environmentalists
06/10/08 - World's Species Going Extinct Faster than Scientists Thought
06/10/08 - Food Banks Ask Gardeners to Grow Extra for Hungry
06/10/08 - Mass Public Transportation Can Address Gas Prices and Warming
06/10/08 - EPA: 'Sludge Hill' as Clean as It Will Get
06/09/08 - Prices Leap for Corn and Crude Oil
06/09/08 - Biotech Giants Demand a High Price for Saving the Planet
06/09/08 - Bay Advocates Called Soft on Farm Pollution
06/09/08 - Biofuels and Commodity Speculation, Not Asian Imports , Are Main Trigger for Food Crisis
06/08/08 - Drilling Carries a Hefty Environmental Price
06/07/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed (June 8, 2008)
06/07/08 - Global Food Crisis Demands Real Change, Not Business as Usual
06/07/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #962
06/07/08 - Climate Findings Were Distorted by Bush Administrations, Probe Finds
06/07/08 - Overview of Mass Media Coverage of the World Food Summit
06/07/08 - Food Crisis Summit Ducks Crucial Issues
06/06/08 - Bioenergy: Fueling the Food Crisis?
06/06/08 - Tracking Plastic's Breakdown Products
06/06/08 - House Passes Bill to Green Up Schools
06/06/08 - How Global Warming Is Helping Democrats Win The Heartland
06/06/08 - Is Golf Causing Diabetes?
06/06/08 - In Shift, FDA Says Mercury Fillings May Harm Some
06/06/08 - The Real Cost of Cheap Food
06/06/08 - Common Dry Cleaning Chemicals Pose a Cancer Risk
06/05/08 - U.S. Cities, Companies and Nonprofits Push Consumer Climate Fight
06/05/08 - The Feed, from Union of Concerned Scientists (June 2008)
06/05/08 - World Leaders Warned of Phony Solutions to Global Food Crisis
06/04/08 - Food Crisis Moves to the Center Stage of Global Concerns
06/04/08 - Spanish Wind Producer Seeks to Break Impasse in New York State
06/03/08 - Banking on Coal's Future
06/03/08 - Lead on Playing Fields can be Absorbed by Body
06/03/08 - Ecosystem Damage Costs Trillions Per Year: Study
06/03/08 - Last Flight of the Honeybee?
06/03/08 - Diverse Coalition Calls on Senate to "Fix or Ditch" Lieberman-Warner Bill
06/02/08 - Is the Forest Stewardship Council Greenwashing Wood Products as Sustainable by Certifying Monoculture Tree Plantations?
06/02/08 - Newsweek Warns Oil Prices Could Hit $200 a Barrel in the Next Few Months
06/02/08 - Small Farmers Slam 'Empty Policies' Ahead of FAO Food Summit
06/02/08 - ALERT: Government Guts Pesticide Reporting Laws
06/02/08 - Growing Controversy Over Biofuels, Food Security, & Rising Food Prices
06/01/08 - Wake Up, America: Driving Toward Disaster
06/01/08 - Act On Climate Change, Top Scientists Warn US
06/01/08 - Contaminated Education?
06/01/08 - How To Green The Global Economy: Nature's 100 Best
06/01/08 - Solving the Climate & Energy Crisis: Renewable Energy!
05/31/08 - It Will Take a Lot More Than Gardening to Fix Our Food System
05/31/08 - Is Water Becoming 'The New Oil'?
05/31/08 - The World Torpedoes Ocean Fertilization: End of Round One on Geo-Engineering
05/31/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #961
05/31/08 - Leading Organic Food Company, Eden Foods Says BPA-free Cans Possible
05/31/08 - Campaign Checks Help Gas Terminal and Pipeline Company
05/31/08 - Solar Incentives Threaten Local Ownership
05/31/08 - Destroying Nature: Libertarianism and Unregulated Free Markets
05/30/08 - Vermont Wants Federal Permission for Farmers to Grow Hemp
05/30/08 - Swedish Company Will Vend Verified Sustainable Ethanol
05/30/08 - Water Activist Defeat Nestle in California
05/30/08 - Peter Rosset: The Time has Come for Via Campesina and Food Sovereignty
05/30/08 - California Air Pollution Kills
05/30/08 - Apocalypse in the Oceans
05/30/08 - It's Time to Stop Putting Toxic Sewage Sludge on Farmlands, Yards, and Backyard Gardens
05/30/08 - Melting Antarctic Glaciers May Be Releasing DDT, Says Study
05/30/08 - Is the World's Food System Collapsing?
05/30/08 - Interference by Major Brazilian Soybean Producer Holds up Release of Deforestation Numbers
05/29/08 - UN Calls for Moratorium on Agrofuels & More Action to Address Global Food Crisis
05/29/08 - How Safe Are America's Green Cleaning Products?
05/29/08 - Common Herbicide Disrupts Human Hormone Activity
05/29/08 - Vandana Shiva: Why We Face Both Food and Water Crises
05/28/08 - What To Do About the Price of Oil
05/28/08 - White House Denies CA Right to Restrict Emissions
05/28/08 - Here Comes the Wave of Green Collar Jobs
05/28/08 - Landmark Bill Introduced in Congress to Force Industry to Prove 80,000 Chemicals Are 'Kid Safe'
05/28/08 - New Government Report Shows Climate Change Will Ravage Conventional Agriculture & U.S. Forests
05/28/08 - Hidden Nuclear Handout Exposed in Senate Climate Bill
05/27/08 - Peak Oil and the Collapse of the Petroleum-Based Economy Are Coming
05/25/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed (May 25, 2008)
05/25/08 - Study Cites High Cost of Global Warming, Says Action Would Be Cheaper
05/24/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #960
05/24/08 - Petition Seeking a Cancer Warning on Cosmetic Talc Powder Products
05/22/08 - Nonstick Toxicity
05/22/08 - A Climate Change Industrial Policy
05/22/08 - EPA Toxicity Risk Assessments in Crisis
05/22/08 - Grist Magazine On Water Conservation
05/22/08 - Easy Conversion of Organic Matter to Hydrogen Discovered by Researchers
05/22/08 - Did Monsanto Lobby USDA to Stop Monitoring Pesticide Safety?
05/21/08 - Paying for War at the Pump
05/21/08 - World Food Crisis: More Fairy Tales About Genetically Modified Crops
05/21/08 - Hunger Meets Chaos in the Horn of Africa
05/21/08 - Toxic Fire Retardant Chemicals Found in Common Baby Products
05/21/08 - Broward Democrats Vote to Ask Crist to Block Proposed Floating Gas Plant and Pipeline
05/20/08 - Peak Oil and Corporate Control of Oil Resources
05/20/08 - EU Health Chief Appeals for Ban of Cancer-Causing Pesticides
05/20/08 - USDA Head Downplays Calls To Cut Biofuel Mandate
05/20/08 - Democrats Want Chemical in Plastic Investigated
05/20/08 - Carbon Credits: 'the Environmental Version of Sub-Prime Mortgages'
05/20/08 - Future Hope: Mazzocchi, Speth and Capitalism's Future
05/19/08 - Ottawa Prepared to Slap Toxic Label on Widely Used Chemicals
05/19/08 - 30 Agrochemical Products Banned in Nigeria After Deaths
05/19/08 - Biotech Companies Rush to Patent Plant Genes
05/19/08 - CAFOs in Conflict: Huge Farms Increase Efficiency but Create Environmental Concerns
05/19/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #959 (May 15, 2008)
05/19/08 - World Food Crisis: Predatory Agribusiness
05/19/08 - Bayer: A History of Profit from Suffering
05/19/08 - Climate Justice: Promoting Equity in Dealing with Climate Change
05/18/08 - Tropical Rainforests are Planet's Lungs
05/18/08 - Food Profiteering: Corn-Based Ethanol Has Always Been About Corporate Profits, Not Reducing Greenhouse Pollution
05/18/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed (May 18, 2008)
05/17/08 - Danger Signs: Global Biodiversity is Declining Rapidly
05/17/08 - Polar Bears Listed as Threatened
05/16/08 - Grist Magazine On Buying Eco-Products in Bulk
05/16/08 - Study Confirms Lead Fragments in Venison
05/16/08 - Video Shows How Converting U.S. Farmland to Organic Would Reduce Greenhouse Gas Pollution by 25%
05/16/08 - EPA Needs to Investigate Toxicity of Sewage Sludge Spread on America's Conventional Farms
05/16/08 - Polar Bears Finally Get Listed as an Endangered Species
05/16/08 - Video: Interview with Rodale Institute CEO on How Organic Farming Will Combat Climate Change
05/15/08 - Global Call to Stop the Planting of Genetically Engineered Trees
05/15/08 - Insecticides in Pet Shampoo May Trigger Autism
05/15/08 - The Promise of Green Paint
05/15/08 - Alarm at Weed-Kill Chemical in Water
05/15/08 - Wasteful Biofuels Subsidies Keep Our Addiction to Oil
05/15/08 - The Bike Revolution: Pedaling Toward Cleaner Cities
05/14/08 - Schools Go Sustainable: Greening College Food Services
05/14/08 - Cargill: Key Player in Global Food Crisis
05/14/08 - Californians Boot Proposed Nestle's Bottled Water Plant
05/14/08 - Firms Seek Patents on 'Climate Ready' Altered Crops
05/14/08 - States Remove Local Barriers to Eco-Friendly Homes
05/14/08 - Ways of Ancient Mexico Reviving Barren Lands
05/14/08 - Pollution and Blood Clots
05/14/08 - How to Green Your Yard -- Even More
05/13/08 - White House vs White Bear: Bush Must Decide Whether To Save The Polar Bear As The Ice Melts
05/13/08 - World CO2 Levels At Record High, Scientists Warn
05/13/08 - Amid Global Food Crisis, Biotech Companies are Exposed as Climate Change Profiteers
05/13/08 - Hawaii Passes Landmark Solar Roofs Bill
05/13/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed, May 12, 2008
05/13/08 - How Green Are Consumers & Why Don't They Trust Big Corporations?
05/12/08 - Solving the Energy, Climate & Food Crisis: Why We Should Support the Revitalization of Small Farms in the Global South
05/12/08 - Unexplained Mass Die-Off Hits German Hives
05/12/08 - Solar Industry Needs Workers
05/12/08 - Common Weedkiller May Cause Hormonal Problems
05/12/08 - Minnesota is Ground Zero in the Debate Over Ethanol
05/12/08 - Study Documents Chemicals in U.S. Coastal Waters
05/12/08 - Ugandan Organic Exporters in DDT Scare
05/12/08 - Seattle Mayor: Stop Buying Bottled Water
05/12/08 - San Francisco Vying to be Champion Recyclers
05/11/08 - The Perfect Food Shortage
05/11/08 - Bill McKibben on Climate Change: A Last Chance for Civilization
05/11/08 - The Global Food Crisis: Peter Montague
05/11/08 - Depleted Groundwater Threatens Food Chain
05/11/08 - Harmful Chemical Wafts Off Your TV
05/11/08 - Pine Beetles Ravage Canadian Forests: Toxic Synergy of Climate Change & Greedy Industrial Forest Practices
05/10/08 - Rachel's Democracy & Health News #958 (May 8, 2008)
05/10/08 - Timothy LaSalle of Rodale on the Surprising Climate Benefits of Organic Farming
05/10/08 - An Eco-Friendly Gift Guide for Mother's Day
05/09/08 - Portrait of an Oil-Addicted Former Superpower
05/09/08 - World's Worst: US Consumers Rank Last in Eco-Consciousness
05/09/08 - Biodegradable Home Product Lines, Ready to Rot
05/08/08 - Consumer Alert: Hazardous, Commonly Used Fire Retardants Lurking in Indoor Dust
05/08/08 - Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed, May 8, 2008
05/08/08 - Beware -- Food Crisis Getting Worse
05/08/08 - The Polluting Of The Environmental Protection Agency
05/08/08 - EPA Ignoring Toxic Perchlorate Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water
05/08/08 - Bush Hammered Over Comments About India and Global Food Crisis
05/08/08 - Even Wall Street Admits Real Solution to World Food Crisis is Helping Poor Farmers Sustainably Grow More Food
05/08/08 - Just How 'Green' is That Shirt?
05/08/08 - Latest Media Coverage & Congressional Debate on the Biofuels Hoax & World Food Crisis
05/08/08 - EPA not Super-Interested in Keeping Rocket Fuel Out of Drinking Water
05/07/08 - The Environmental and Health Costs of Exploiting Alberta's Tar Sands
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