Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
MAUREEN NANDINI MITRA, Managing Editor - Earth Island Journal
Stephan: The story has passed from the media's attention. If you listen to the mainstream media, and look at all those cozy, 'come on down y'all' ads BP has put up on television, things have returned as if the oil spill never happened. As this story makes clear, it is all an Orwellian propaganda lie. I ran this story because a reader on the Gulf Coast wrote to tell me that whatever I thought was going on, human lives, the coast, and the ecosystem were still devastated. This carbon energy crisis may not really be over for years; indeed, things may never be as they once were.
Three years after an explosion at British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers, injured dozens, and set off the worst oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, the waters along Gulf Coast seem almost back to normal. Much of the oil is gone. New Orleans-based photographer Julie Dermansky says there’s still a lot left. The oil, she says, is often hard to locate because it has a tendency to play hide and seek. Dermansky, who photographed the spill in 2010 ‘pretty much non-stop for four months,’ has been doggedly following the story for the past three years – reading up all the research she can lay her hands on, making trips out to the worst impacted areas in Louisiana every few months, and talking to people from affected communities.
In the early days of the spill she was hired by several major publications, including The Times, London, The Washington Post, and Der Spiegel. But these days she travels without assignment, covering expenses on her own, since few publications hire photographers or reporters to cover what’s now an old news story. Last week, Dermansky again visited the beaches and marshes along the Louisiana […]
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
DAVID EDWARDS, - The Raw Story
Stephan: This is representative of the sickness of hate and violence that like a virus seems to have taken root in certain elements of the Republican Party. It has gotten so bad that these people... well, read it for yourself.
The author of a county Republican Party newsletter in Arkansas says that he and other conservatives in the state ‘most likely won’t try to kill
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
ABBY FAIRES, - Boulder Weekly
Stephan: As I have said over and over, we need to realize that we do not live on the planet, we live in the planet, as part of a living network in which all life is interconnected and interdependent. Here is an example of what I mean.
Colorado foresters know that Colorado’s forests are changing. And over the past two decades, the change has been significant. Colorado’s forests have seen unprecedented mortality, driven by poor resiliency to insects and diseases, according to Joseph Duda, interim state forester for the Colorado Forest Service.
‘People should be concerned about the mortality because of the potential impacts on wildlife, watersheds, recreation sites and the creation of hazards - to name a few,
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
D.S. WRIGHT, - Firedoglake
Stephan: Ronlyn and I stopped buying any products made by Nestle or its subsidiaries some time ago (to see what Nestle owns go to the Important Charts link on the left of the SR website). This is the true measure of the greed that we see in companies like Nestle, Dow, and Monsanto.
Click through to see Nestle Chairman, Peter Brabeck, express himself on this issue.
Peter Brabeck, the Chairman of Nestle Group, has a theory about how the world should work regarding access to water and he would like to share his theory (of not sharing).
Brabeck is not a fan of nature, at least not as it is understood today. Saying man can now provide ‘balance to nature.
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
JEN SORIANO, - truthout/YES!
Stephan: Like the piece I did yesterday on how New York could transition to non-carbon energy, this one addresses landfills, offering actual examples of how it could be done. The truth is we could recreate our society so that it was much more fair to all, and environmentally positive; only our lack of political will is stopping this.
There is a growing global movement to significantly reduce the amount of trash we produce as communities, cities, countries and even regions. It’s called the zero-waste movement, and it received a major boost this week as two of its leaders were awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize.
Nohra Padilla and Rossano Ercolini are two of the winners of this year’s Goldman Prize, which awards $150,000 to each of six grassroots environmentalists who have achieved great impact, often against great odds. On the surface, Padilla and Ercolini seem to have little in common. Padilla is a grassroots recycler-also known as a waste picker-from the embattled city of Bogotá, Colombia. Ercolini is an elementary school teacher from the rustic farmlands of Capannori, Italy.
Though their experiences are different, they share a common cause: organizing to reduce the amount of trash-everything from cans and bottles to cell phones and apple cores-that ends up buried in landfills or burned in incinerators.
What is zero waste?
Here in the United States zero waste is often thought of as a lifestyle choice, if it’s thought of at all. Blogs likeZero Waste Home and The Clean Bin Project attract a readership of thousands through tips on how to buy less, reuse […]
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