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Fracking debate divides New York landowners
Seeded on Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:40 PM EST (The L.A. Times)
As the state prepares to lift a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking, many people debate the risks of leasing mineral rights to extraction companies. thousands of others along the Pennsylvania border, where rich natural gas deposits underlie forests, …
Use Rio+20 to overhaul idea of growth, urges EU climate chief | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Seeded on Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:21 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
More on challenging the assumption that we always need economic growth. judging economic growth purely on the basis of production and consumption, as happens now, encourages rampant overconsumption and fails to value the natural environment.
New York's Little Revolution: How Fracking Is Remaking the Political Landscape
Seeded on Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:41 PM EST (YES! Magazine)
This has been described as an Environmental Occupy Wall Street. If you live in New York State you need to be concerned. Get educated on the issue and get involved. We have a good chance of stopping the destruction before it starts. Once the water is polluted it's too late.
‘Cohort replacement’: Climate deniers won’t change, but they will die | Grist
Seeded on Thu Feb 9, 2012 12:24 PM EST (Grist)
So forget arguing, arguing, arguing with a tribe unmoored from reality. Start organizing, organizing, organizing the cohorts that are amenable to reality. Prepare them for when it’s their turn to take over. Time will do the rest.
Komen Isn't the Only Do-Gooder Group Conservatives Targeted for Planned Parenthood Ties | Mother Jones
Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2012 8:51 PM EST (MotherJones.com)
How sad is this. Fanatic, far right theocratic groups targeting Girl Scouts.
Natural Gas: The Signs They Are A-Changin
Seeded on Thu Feb 2, 2012 8:40 PM EST (TreeHugger)
New York's Department of Environmental Conservation has collected 40,000 public comments on proposed fracking, with opinions running 10-to-1 against drilling. Last week, hundreds of residents demonstrated at the state capital in Albany to demand tougher regulations.
Clinging to economic growth suffocates the imagination | Andrew Simms | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Seeded on Thu Feb 2, 2012 6:27 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
Good article on the limits to growth.
Cutting through the hydrofracking spin
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:18 AM EST (Livingston County News)
Just sharing what's going on in my area regarding the hydro-fracking. I guesstimate Western New Yorkers are about 75% opposed to fracking and 25% for. I'm strongly opposed.
Antitrust Official Gets Stampeded By Big Beef : The Salt : NPR
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:54 PM EST (NPR)
Once again big industrial food wins and consumers and small farmers lose.
Dow and Monsanto Team Up On the Mother of All Herbicide Marketing Plans | Mother Jones
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:06 PM EST (MotherJones.com)
If the agrichemical companies manage to ram through the regulatory process a bunch of patches to Roundup Ready farming, then their herbicide-drenched vision will continue dominating huge swaths of prime farmland throughout the country for the forseable future.
Building a Better Bulb: Lighting Revolution Advances
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:32 PM EST (Yale Environment 360)
When the standards are in full effect, we’ll cut our nation’s electric bill by about $12.5 billion a year and eliminate the need for 30 large power plants and all the pollution that comes from them. It’s a big deal.
Tomgram: Ellen Cantarow, An Environmental Occupy Fracks Corporate America
Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:30 PM EST (TomDispatch)
“This is what my kids are made of. They are made of water. They are made of the food that is grown in the county that I live in. And they are made of air. We inhale a pint of atmosphere with every breath we take... And when you poison these things, you poison us.
This isn't for the ladies but fuel efficiency never looked so good!
Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:24 PM EST
Why don't men get mad-cow disease? Because we're all pigs. I'm a tree-hugger. An environmentalist and proud of it. Now I have a coworker that's right of center and not very environmentally conscious. I drive a Prius and he drives a BMW.
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Tradeoff Between Environment and Economy is "Nonsense" Says GE Executive : TreeHugger
Seeded on Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:29 PM EST (TreeHugger)
The economy is wholly dependent on the environment for its survival, so it is of course nonsense to suggest that we should prioritize financial interests over environmental ones. But the reverse does not necessarily hold true.
Should We Move Creatures Threatened by Climate Change? | Mother Jones
Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:04 PM EST (MotherJones.com)
It's risky but may become necessary.
Ethanol Subsidies: Not Gone, Just Hidden a Little Better | Mother Jones
Seeded on Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:28 PM EST (MotherJones.com)
Large scale agribusiness owns government as much as the oil industry does, all to the detriment of the environment. This diverts resources from developing sustainable solutions, drives up costs for consumers, and contributes to the federal debt.
No Maple Syrup by 2100? | Mother Jones
Seeded on Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:17 PM EST (MotherJones.com)
Global warming isn't something that's going to happen, it's already happening.
Why libertarians must deny climate change, in one short take
Seeded on Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:29 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
Their property rights are absolute and cannot be intruded upon by the state or by anyone else. Any interference with, or damage to, the value of their property without their consent – even by taxation – is an unwarranted infringement.
Best Vegetable Seed Companies
Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:02 PM EST (MOTHER EARTH NEWS)
It's seed catalog time. I get a lot of them and I love them.
On Shale Gas, Warming and Whiplash - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Sun Jan 8, 2012 9:51 PM EST (The New York Times)
This is a good discussion and review of the science around one aspect of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas, green house gas emissions.
Damning New Letter from NY State Insider: 'Hydraulic Fracturing as It's Practiced Today Will Contaminate Our Aquifers' | | AlterNet
Seeded on Sun Jan 8, 2012 8:35 PM EST (AlterNet.org)
Even more reason to go slow or better yet, just say no to fracking. Put the effort into renewables. Thanks and get well to my friend Ambivalent!
Thoughts about the Iowa caucus results
Fri Jan 6, 2012 4:51 PM EST
Disclaimer: This is satire mostly so please don't vote as inflammatory or no value. Have fun with it. In the Iowa Republican caucuses there were no candidates' names on the ballots, only their pictures, so GOP illiterates could vote too.
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Time for Conservatives to wake up and smell the cat litter....
Seeded on Sun Jan 1, 2012 11:51 AM EST (What Would Jack Do?)
So you’re a Red Meat Conservative who thinks taxes are the very embodiment of Evil Liberal Oppression and wants the heavy hand of the Nanny State expunged from our lives.
News: FDA Won't Act Against Ag Antibiotic Use | Wired Science | Wired.com
Seeded on Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:59 PM EST (Wired News)
the FDA says that it plans instead to “focus its efforts for now on the potential for voluntary reform and the promotion of the judicious use of antimicrobials in the interest of public health.”
How Right-Wing-Nut and TeaParty Conspiracy Theories Pose a Genuine Threat to All of Humanity
Seeded on Tue Dec 27, 2011 4:08 AM EST (AlterNet.org)
"Agenda 21" is one of a number of silly but dangerous conspiracy theories sweeping through the fever swamps of the right. Although admittedly sinister-sounding, Agenda 21 is just a blueprint for sustainable development, especially in emerging economies.
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