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Yellowstone says it may need to import grizzlies to improve genetics

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

billingsgazette.com - By Brett French - Jan. 05 (News Report) - Yellowstone National Park has asked its fundraising partners to come up with $1 million a year for six years to expand its lake trout eradication effort at Yellowstone Lake, and by 2022 the park may need to import grizzly bears from other regions to increase the animals’ genetic diversity Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/yellowstone-says-it-may-need-to-import-grizzlies-to-improve/article_cab0939e-363e-56db-8a66-2dfeaa60ff77.html#ixzz1ic4jJBtC

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Soil Erosion Far Worse Than Reported In American Farmlands

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Joanna Zelman - Apr. 13 (Special Report) - If the American classic song is right and â€œthis land was made for you and me,â€* then why are we paying to have it destroyed?...

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State and municipal governments fertilize local food craze

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

hcn.org - By Nathaniel Hoffman - Mar. 08 (News Report) - Over the last 80 years, federal policy has increasingly put small farmers at a disadvantage by massively subsidizing a centralized, industrial agriculture system that produces cheap food. Activists have spent decades pushing federal reforms, such as organic standards, with incremental success. Now, a surge of state and local government policies that promote local food and small farms as engines of economic development is making waves in Washington, D.C., (see map at right). In 2008 and 2009, for example, at least 13 state legislatures passed bills encouraging the growth of farmers markets. Arizona removed barriers to selling beef and lamb at market, while New Mexico, Washington and other states made it easier for those on public assistance to buy food at farmers markets. Some states directed limited funding toward the infrastructure and promotion of such markets.

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Could This Be A Crime?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

climatestorytellers.org - By Subhankar Banerjee - Aug. 26 (Special Report) - Last month the U.S. Senate finally put an end to the climate bill. Since then several opinion pieces have been published, including articles in Yale Environment 360, Grist, TomDispatch, The Nation, and The Hill. Some of these point out why the U.S. climate movement failed, while others call for a new movement. Global warming is a crisis: for all lands, for all oceans, for all rivers, for all forests, for all humans, for all birds, for all mammals, for all little creatures that we don’t see... for all life. We need stories and actions from every part of our earth. So far, global warming communications have primarily focused on scientific information. I strongly believe that to engage the public, we need all fields of the humanities. It is to this end that I founded ClimateStoryTellers. And there is much action: globally, 350.org and Climate Justice Movement; nationally, organizations such as Center for Biological Diversity; and state-based initiatives such as New Energy Economy in New Mexico. These groups give us hope that a bold – not weak – climate movement will continue to move forward with renewed energy. Our task is to make the collective global voice louder and louder until ignoring such loud cacophony will not be an option by our governments. Global warming is not something we can solve with good behavior and healthy lifestyles. It will require major government action to control pollution–and–polluters and to start a low–carbon–society.

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Africa: Cash for Climate Change?

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Link TV - By Erin Coker - Dec. 04 (News Analysis) - China and the U.S. may be patting themselves on the back for proposing CO2 emission cuts, but African nations are boiling mad. Africa accounts for 14% of the world's population, but emits only 3% of its CO2. Amid floods in the continent's east and drought in the west, Africans accuse the developed world of timidity, and some are calling for climate reparations.

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Power lurks in Oregon forests ?

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

OregonLive.com - Jun. 26 (News Report) - Tucked into a sprawling, 1,200-page climate change bill before Congress today is a tiny paragraph that touches the federal forests covering a quarter of Oregon. It says these lands, that already give us trails to hike and clean water to drink, can provide renewable power for our toasters while helping to replace long gone lumbering jobs. .

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Northwest's biofuel boom goes bust ?

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

OregonLive.com - By Scott Learn, The Oregonian - Jun. 07 (News Report) - The biofuel downturn has been a national phenomenon, Van't Hof noted. Oregon's plants are likely to be restructured under Chapter 11 proceedings or sold, not shuttered. And the federal plans for more biofuel use in coming years leave Oregon in a good position to capitalize as the industry grows, he said.

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Plastic. Fantastic?

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Jennifer Kahn - Apr. 26 (Special Report) - As the most visible evidence of a disposable, trash-addled society, plastic has become the emblem of a world swimming in waste. Reportedly, plastic shopping bags are used an average of just 12 minutes before being thrown away. Every year, more than 500 billion plastic bags are discarded worldwide; they wave from tree branches so abundantly that South Africans have dubbed them their "national flower," and no fewer than six countries have enacted bans. Shredded packaging fouls shorelines and turns up in the stomachs of trout, albatross, and sea turtles (which mistake plastic bags for jellyfish). In the Pacific Ocean, currents feed scraps into a thousand-mile-wide gyre of synthetic jetsam.

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Population growth, climate change sparking water crisis: U.N.

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - Mar. 11 (Special Report) - Surging population growth, climate change, reckless irrigation and chronic waste are placing the world's water supplies at threat, a landmark U.N. report said on Thursday. Compiled by 24 U.N. agencies, the 348-page document gave a grim assessment of the state of the planet's freshwater, especially in developing countries, and described the outlook for coming generations as deeply worrying. Water is part of the complex web of factors that determine prosperity and stability, it said. Lack of access to water helps drive poverty and deprivation and breeds the potential for unrest and conflict, it warned.

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Australia Faces Collapse as Climate Change Kicks in: Are the Southwest and California Next?

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Joseph Romm - Feb. 02 (Special Report) - Australia has been suffering its worst heatwave on record, the first time temperatures exceeded 110 F for 3 days running. It’s been so hot that on Thursday, the low at Melbourne airport was 87 F. Australia is the canary in the coal mine for climate-driven desertification. The astonishing decade-long drought in southern Australia was declared ‘worst on record’ last year. My headline quote is from the UK’s Independent story, which notes: Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth, is regarded as highly vulnerable. A study by the country’s blue-chip Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation identified its ecosystems as "potentially the most fragile" on earth in the face of the threat.

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Poet Pilot Plant Now Making Fuel from Corn Cobs

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

agweb.com - By Jeanne Bernick - Jan. 13 (News Report) - Ethanol critics chuckled when Poet announced last year that it would produce ethanol from corn cobs by 2009. Now, the world’s largest ethanol company has the last laugh.

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Why Bananas are a Parable For Our Times

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Johann Hari - Jan. 08 (News Report) - Below the headlines about rocketing food prices and rocking governments, there lays a largely unnoticed fact: bananas are dying. The foodstuff, more heavily consumed even than rice or potatoes, has its own form of cancer. It is a fungus called Panama Disease, and it turns bananas brick-red and inedible. There is no cure. They all die as it spreads, and it spreads quickly. Soon - in five, 10 or 30 years - the yellow creamy fruit as we know it will not exist. The story of how the banana rose and fell can be seen a strange parable about the corporations that increasingly dominate the world - and where they are leading us.

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Community Gardens Contribute to Food Security

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By Stephanie Nieuwoudt - Dec. 29 (Special Report) - In the global economic downturn where food insecurity has increased due to soaring food prices, backyard and community gardens are some of the most basic survival strategies.

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The Greening of Wal-Mart (March 11, 2008)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Stanford Social Innovation Review - By Erica L. Plambeck, Lyn Denend - Apr. 08 (Special Report) - Against this backdrop, Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. unveiled a new plan to reduce the company's environmental footprint. In an October 2005 speech broadcast to all 1.6 million employees in all 6,000-plus stores and shared with some 60,000 suppliers worldwide, he announced that Wal-Mart was initiating a sweeping "business sustainability strategy." The idea was to reduce the company's impact on the environment through a commitment to three ambitious goals: "To be supplied 100 percent by renewable energy; to create zero waste; and to sell products that sustain our resources and the environment." 3

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U.S. high court declines to review Can. company pollution ruling

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

CorpWatch - By John K. Wiley - Jan. 07 (News Report) - "As the case now stands, the courts have ruled that the U.S. has jurisdiction over Teck Cominco under the United States' Superfund law for the pollution it created in the U.S." The Columbia has been polluted for a century with heavy metals and black slag leaching downstream from Teck Cominco's lead and zinc smelter complex in Trail, British Columbia, 10 miles north of the U.S. border and about 135 miles north of Spokane.

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Global Ruling Class: Billionaires and How They "Made It"

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:16:38 -0700

Dissident Voice - By James Petras - Mar. 20 (News Report) - It was US academics and ideologues working hand in glove with the so-called multi-lateral agencies, as contracted economic consultants, who trained, designed and pushed the PDD agenda among their former Ivy League students-turned-economic and finance ministers and Central Bankers in Latin America and Russia. It was US and EU multi-national corporations and banks which bought out or went into joint ventures with the emerging Latin American billionaires and who reaped the trillion dollar payouts on the debts incurred by the corrupt military and civilian regimes. The billionaires are as much a product and/or by-product of US anti-nationalist, anti-communist policies as they are a product of their own grandiose theft of public enterprises.

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