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  • Robert Redford Calls for Courage to Rise Up: Radical Videos to Pass Around
    2 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Redford To Democrats: Show More Courage
    WASHINGTON — The Sundance Kid gathered up the nerve to jump off a cliff with Butch Cassidy. Now, he wants Democrats to show similar backbone.
    "Democrats need to regain the courage that’s lost with political compromises over the last few years," actor and environmental activist Robert Redford said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press. "They’ve got to get it together. If they don’t, it will not only be a tragedy for them, but a tragedy (…)

  • The Enlightenment of Resistance
    1 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Exorcising Our Demons
    Into the infancy of the 21st century has humanity somehow managed to reach, despite our insatiable addiction for violence and suffering that has for millennia been both endemic and devastating, in spite of the continued tribalism, now called the nation state, that fosters competition, ignorance, fear, hatred and war among the peoples of the world, even with the hierarchical need among peoples to perpetually follow corrupt, immoral and warmongering leadership that (…)

  • Climate change: US economist’s grim warning to Blair’s Cabinet
    27 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Climate change: US economist’s grim warning to Blair’s Cabinet
    The stark findings of Nicholas Stern’s report yesterday increased the pressure on the PM to act
    By Andy McSmith and Colin Brown
    Published: 27 October 2006
    Global warming could cost the world’s economies up to 20 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP) if urgent action is not taken to stop floods, storms and natural catastrophes.
    That stark warning was given to Tony Blair and his cabinet yesterday by Sir (…)

  • Earth’s Ecological Debt Crisis: Mankind’s ’Borrowing’ from Nature Hits New Record
    11 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Monday, October 9, 2006 by the Independent / UK http://www.commondreams.org/ Earth’s Ecological Debt Crisis: Mankind’s ’Borrowing’ from Nature Hits New Record by Martin Hickman Today is a bleak day for the environment, the day of the year when mankind over-exploits the world’s resources - the day when we start living beyond our ecological means.
    Evidence is mounting that rapid population growth and rising living standards among the Earth’s six billion inhabitants are (…)

  • The century of drought
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The century of drought
    One third of the planet will be desert by the year 2100, say climate experts in the most dire warning yet of the effects of global warming
    By Michael McCarthy, Environmental Editor
    Published: 04 October 2006
    Drought threatening the lives of millions will spread across half the land surface of the Earth in the coming century because of global warming, according to new predictions from Britain’s leading climate scientists.
    Extreme drought, in which (…)

  • Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial
    21 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial
    David Adam, environment correspondent Wednesday September 20, 2006 The Guardian
    Britain’s leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change.
    In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of (…)

  • Clearing the air with the truth
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Juan Gonzalez
    After nearly five years of lies from top city and federal officials about the health dangers from the toxic dust released by the World Trade Center collapse, the truth has finally begun to emerge.
    Back on Oct. 26, 2001, in a Daily News front-page story headlined "A Toxic Nightmare at Disaster Site," I reported that hundreds of tests conducted by the federal Environmental Protection Agency revealed far more elevated levels of toxic pollutants in the air and dust in lower (…)

  • Notes on the Ecological Dimension
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mitchel Cohen
    (A talk by Mitchel Cohen at the "Another World is Necessary" conference on July 24, 2006 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, sponsored by the Center for Global Justice.)
    There is a kind of environmentalist who argues that police clubs must be made from organic, non-rainforest wood, that police use soy-based ink to take our fingerprints when we are arrested, that they use recycled paper for all tickets and citations, and that their bullets be made from recycled metal. We on (…)

  • THE CROCODILE MAN
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Crocodile Man
    By Peter Fredson
    September 4, 2006
    It is a sad day for Australia. Steve Irwin, “The Crocodile Man” is dead. He was killed accidentally when swimming over a sting-ray and its barb went into Steve. He died shortly thereafter. We were astonished that, after all the daring-do escapades with dangerous wild animals, Steve was not invincible.
    He handled the most poisonous snakes on this planet with amazing aplomb. He was at his press-relations best with crocodiles, (…)

  • Heat, drought take rising toll on southwest China
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Heat, drought take rising toll on southwest China 01 Sep 2006 05:15:58 GMT
    BEIJING, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The worst drought to hit southwest China in more than a century is spreading to neighbouring provinces with temperatures reaching record highs, state media said on Friday.
    The densely populated municipality of Chongqing and eastern parts of Sichuan province have been plagued by repeated heatwaves and have seen no significant rainfall since early July.
    The drought is the worst (…)