Reflections on Coldwater Written after the final Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD) meeting regarding the determination of Wetland A at Coldwater Springs. Development is not necessarily improvement: that attitude is a 19th century/20th century intellectual construct. We are now in the 21st century, and a new construct that recognizes that development may be a curse More
Who Will Save Our Children? By Lea Foushee WAMM Newsletter May 2012 It’s predicted that the next battles in the world will be over water, and indeed in some places they have already begun. We tend to think that scarcity of clean water is more of a problem on other continents. Yet, More
Who Will Save Our Children? By Lea Foushee WAMM Newsletter May 2012 It’s predicted that the next battles in the world will be over water, and indeed in some places they have already begun. We tend to think that scarcity of clean water is more of a problem on other continents. Yet, More
Nygaard Notes Independent Periodic News and Analysis Number 507, May 10, 2012 On the Web at http://www.nygaardnotes.org/ This Week: Global Warming 1. “Quote” of the Week 2. Science, The Public, and the Media 3. Climate Change: The Scientific Consensus Greetings No room for an editor’s note this week. See you in #508 Nygaard 1. “Quote” More
Nygaard Notes Independent Periodic News and Analysis Number 507, May 10, 2012 On the Web at http://www.nygaardnotes.org/ This Week: Global Warming 1. “Quote” of the Week 2. Science, The Public, and the Media 3. Climate Change: The Scientific Consensus Greetings No room for an editor’s note this week. See you in #508 Nygaard 1. “Quote” More
Lakotas Launch Hunger Strike Against Tar Sands Pipelines Rocky Kistner 04/3/2012 Huffington Post In the Dakotas, members of the proud Lakota Nation rose in protest this week to join a 48-hour hunger strike in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline—and all tar sands pipelines—they say will destroy precious water resources and ancestral lands in the More
Averting the ‘Total Ruin’ of Institutionalized Injustice by Randall Amster April 3, 2012 Common Dreams As a parent, I tend to keep one eye on the present and another on the future. I also keep one (the third eye, perhaps?) on the past, since we need to know where we’ve been to know where we’re More
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, How You Subsidize the Energy Giants to Wreck the Planet Posted by Bill McKibben at 9:20am, April 5, 2012. Just in case you’re running for national office, here are a few basic stats to orient you when you hit Washington (thanks to the invaluable Open Secrets website of the Center for Responsive Politics). In 2011, the More
Occupy May Day: Not Your Usual General Strike Based on a talk by Jeremy Brecher to Occupy University, Zuccotti Park By Jeremy Brecher Common Dreams March 26, 2012 October2011 Last December, Occupy Los Angeles proposed a General Strike on May 1 “for migrant rights, jobs for all, a moratorium on foreclosures, and peace – More
US Intelligence Report: Expect Water Wars Soon Report sees biotechnology, agricultural exports and virtual water trade as the way forward Common Dreams staff March 22, 2012 Common Dreams A report released today on global water security from the Defense Intelligence Agency assesses that in next 10 years, water instability will be likely in “nations More
Radio Show, BP settlement 03/06/12 The Shannyn Moore Show – Greg Palast talks about the BP settlement 00:31:12 Excerpt from Chapter 1 of Greg Palast’s Book Vulture’s Picnic Texas and Tokyo By mid-May 2010, with his presidency floating face down in the Gulf, Barack Obama had yet another crisis to deal with. Obama still had More
Democratic Womanism: By Alice Walker January 2, 2012 - from her official website: http://alicewalkersgarden.com/2012/01/ Wangari Maathai: who remembered the beautiful bountifulness of her land before the colonial invaders laid waste to it and resolved to bring it back to health by planting trees. Rest in Well Done; beloved sister of our clan. “Traditionally capable, as in: More
