LONDON—The sheer economic cost of climate change to Americans could be far greater than many realise, an influential study says. Overheated economy: U.S. crops such as cotton face a 20 percent drop in yield. Photo by Wars via Wikimedia Commons By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network This piece first appeared at Climate News Network. truthdig.com June More
Public meeting on proposed Southwest Light Rail Transit Project 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 8 Anwatin Middle School auditorium, 256 Upton Avenue South, Minneapolis Directions: from Penn Avenue North, at the 4-way stop sign in “downtown” Bryn Mawr with Cuppa Java and the Mobil Station, go west on Laurel Avenue which starts past Bryn Mawr Market More
The insanity has gone far enough. It’s time to unite and fight back, which is why I encourage you to boycott every single product owned by members of the [Grocery Manufacturers Association] GMA, including natural and organic brands. To learn more about this boycott, and the traitor brands that are included, please visit TheBoycottList.org. [vimeo 90003852 More
Being as how we are a social species, I believe we have solemn responsibilities to one another. I believe it is our duty to take proper care of each other. Why wouldn't it be? What else is a society good for? by OPOL The Humanitarian Left June 2014 I think of myself as being part of More
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(Click to enlarge) dailykos.com June 18, 2014 Relevant article showing photos of the London spikes here. Apparently the number of homeless there is increasing: Katharine Sacks-Jones, head of policy and campaigns at Crisis, said: "This is happening in a context where rough sleeping has gone up massively. Over the last three years rough sleeping has risen More
On Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky speaks to the media at a friend’s house in Amman, Jordan, in 2010. AP/Nader Daoud CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Noam Chomsky, whom I interviewed last Thursday at his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has influenced intellectuals in the United States and abroad in incalculable ways. His explications of empire, mass propaganda, the More
”How many deaths of other people’s children are we willing to accept in order that we may be free, affluent and (supposedly) at peace? To that question I answer: None . . . Don’t kill any children for my benefit.” Wendell Berry Farmer, Essayist, Conservationist, Novelist, Teacher, Poet: b. 1934 "The most alarming sign of the More
A song addressing Minnesota's sulfide mining controversy. Visit Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness for more background at www.friends-bwca.org/and MiningTruth, www.miningtruth.org/, a project of Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, Conservation Minnesota, and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy. Words below. (you can listen to the song here) Here's the link to the event page on Facebook if you care More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/JNt1k3ohkbs] Published on Jun 11, 2014 In 2002, investigative journalist and TED Fellow Will Potter decided to take a break from his regular beat, writing about shootings and murders for the Chicago Tribune. He went to help a local group campaigning against animal testing: "I thought it would be a safe way to do something More
By Polly Mann WAMM Newsletter Spring II 2014 I became interested in Iceland during World War II when the husband of a close friend was stationed at a military base near Reykjavik. (The U.S. maintained a military base and naval station in Iceland until 2006.) No American soldier could go into Reykjavik without written authority from More
June 8th is World Oceans Day: Together we have the power to protect the ocean [Rise Up Times] By Katherine Brooks The Huffington Post June 6, 2014 Last month, the Niels Bugge Cartoon Award asked illustrators and cartoonists from around the world to submit drawings based on a basic theme: climate. "Oceans are in our hands," the contest proclaimed, urging More
