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  • On a very young age, male piglets are castrated without anaesthetic
    28 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Les criminologues ont reconnu depuis longtemps qu’un comportement sadique envers les animaux est un indicateur d’une tendance criminelle envers les hommes.
    "La grandeur d’une nation et ses progrès en matière morale peuvent être jugés par la façon dont ses animaux sont traités "
    Mohandas Gandhi
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19082556.html
    www.atourhands.com/

  • Native chief seeks help of Venezuela’s Chavez
    18 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    He’ll ask President to help stop profitable U.S.-bound oil pipelines
    By Joe Friesen
    WINNIPEG — An outspoken Canadian native leader is urging Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to throw his weight behind an attempt to block two multibillion-dollar pipelines that will transport oil from Alberta to the United States.
    Terrance Nelson, chief of the Roseau First Nation in Manitoba, met last week with officials at the Venezuelan embassy in Ottawa and yesterday released a letter to Mr. Chavez in (…)

  • Ralph Nader on Environment Policies : "We’re All Screwed"
    14 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s only gotten worse since the 2000 Presidential Campaign.
    video:
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-18689501.html

  • Huichols and pesticides
    13 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    French version: http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-18663111.html
    "Huichols & Pesticides, documents, through witnesses, reports and persuasive images, the indiscriminate use of pesticides in the tobacco fields, and the poisonings, and even deaths, resulting from the use of agrochemicals." (Boletín RAPAM - Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México, 1994)
    Part I:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZesVO028oak
    Part II: (…)

  • Initial Thoughts On "The Great warming"
    13 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    I honestly think that we can change the world together, for the better, and get a lot of enjoyment, satisfaction, and fulfillment out of the effort. Additionally, I think that the effort can form the basis for a lot of common ground between people who currently feel divided, and restore our sense of community and connectedness in the process. It can give us a common focus, a common problem, instead of a common "enemy."
    I just finished watching "The Great Warming," a film on the scale of (…)

  • Decorate, Water
    12 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    I really wanted to write about this first episode a week ago, before it first aired on The Sundance Channel, but it was just impossible to get to. Still, you can view it online at - the episode is entitled "Decorate." (Next Television Showing: Sun day, April 13, 3:00PM on the Sundance Channel)
    Decorate follows the base format of the "Big Ideas For A Small Planet" series, using three examples of people following the principles it teaches. First, we see an interior designer who utilizes (…)

  • Globalization : American Songbirds Are Being Wiped Out by Banned Pesticides
    9 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research, April 6, 2008 The Independent
    by Leonard Doyle
    Editor’s note
    In March, Global Research published an article by Brit Amos on the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America. The author attributes the death of the bees to the extensive use of GMO Crops.
    The article posted below considers a related process: The death of the songbirds resulting from the extensive use of toxic pesticides and chemicals in export agriculture (fruits and vegetables) in Latin America.
    It (…)

  • Death of the Bees : GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America
    26 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Global Research March 25, 2008
    by Brit Amos
    ‘Commercial beehives pollinate over a third of [NorthAmerica’s crops and that web of nourishment encompasses everything from fruits like peaches, apples, cherries, strawberries and more, to nuts like California almonds, 90 percent of which are helped along by the honeybees. Without this pollination, you could kiss those crops goodbye, to say nothing of the honey bees produce or the flowers they also fertilize’.1
    This essay (…)

  • Vale Says Peasants Destroyed Offices of Its Reforestation Unit
    10 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Vale Says Peasants Destroyed Offices of Its Reforestation Unit
    By Romina Nicaretta
    March 8 (Bloomberg) — Cia. Vale do Rio Doce SA, the world’s biggest iron-ore producer, said a group of peasants invaded and destroyed offices of its reforestation unit in the Brazilian northern state of Maranhao.
    Militants from Movimento dos Tralhadores Sem Terra invaded today the administrative offices of Monte Libano Farm, where Vale plants trees used in the production of charcoal, the Rio de (…)

  • Fuel-Free Oceanic Shipping
    20 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "DHL Completes More Eco-Friendly Ship Voyage as Industry Comes Under Fire
    A cargo vessel that uses a towing kite system to achieve better shipping fuel economy completed its first shipment this week as the industry found itself under fire from U.S. and international regulators."
    This story is out of today’s "Green Buzz," the newsletter post from Green Biz today. While it’s an amazing achievement to use a kite to cut fuel use by 20% on a cargo ship, the sad part is that most cargo (…)