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Where’s the Outrage Over Coal Boondogles?
While much has been made of the $535 million loan guarantee made to the failed Solyndra Corporation in 2009 to encourage alternative energy, you may have missed the court decision this week, halting expansion plans for a Kansas coal plant facing similar problems.The ruling underscores how deadbeat coal plants can be even more costly for taxpayers.Back in 1980, Sunflower Generation Corporation in...
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Remix Film Challenge! | The Crisis Of Civilization
REMIX : To combine or edit existing materials to produce something new.If you’ve seen it, you’ll probably have guessed that here at The Crisis of Civilization we love Remix films – and we want you to have a go too.We would like to invite you to create your own Crisis of Civilization-style sequences, using unused interview audio of Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed with images put over the...
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Black Friday is Buy Nothing Day (Here are 10 Films to Spread the Shopping-Free Cheer!)
Since 1997, the biggest shopping day of the year in North America has also been known as Buy Nothing Day - a playful protest against the cultural and commercial pressures that compel us to consume more every year, grow more in debt to prove our love to our loved ones and find temporary happiness in that euphoric moment of purchase.It's a movement that has been growing internationally every year...
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The End of the Animal Kingdom
I wrote this originally in 2010, and, it is based on decades of work by some of our best. Our scientists do not get credence from media.http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/publications/annrpt25/Manning.pdfThis document is pages 121 to 126 of a longer set of data about our monitoring of our Homeworld, and specifically, the composition of our air, or, atmosphere. Unlike the countless tens and tens of...
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Malayasia: Bidayuh villagers set fire to logging camps, 13 heavy machines
Residents from 10 Bidayuh villagers this week set fire to five logging camps and thirteen heavy machines in a stark protest against logging activities on their land, in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.As reported by Free Malaysia Today, the Bidayuh villagers took matters into their own hands because of the governments refusal to address their complaints about logging activities within their...
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FRACK! New documentary puts controversial gas "fracking" technology under the spotlight
Frack! tells the story of the unconventional gas-drilling ("fracking") frenzy sweeping the Marcellus region, including the Catskills and Upper Delaware River watershed, threatening pristine areas which provide clean drinking water for over 15 million people.  Without a massive public outcry, once idyllic rural landscapes could become toxic industrial wastelands, and New York State a gas...
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We Can't Wait for the Politicians, We Have to Create the Future that We Need Ourselves
Very, very few people can ever say that they are in the single most important place they could possibly be, doing the single most important thing they could possibly be doing -- that's you, here, now. You are the movement that we need if we are going to win in the few years that we have. You have the skills now, you are making the connections, and there is no one else. It is you. That is a great...
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The Moral Calculus of Mega-Economics
March 14, 2011 (1400 hrs) - Watching scenes of the devastation is emotionally taxing. Bodies continue to be found everywhere. The body count in Miyagi Prefecture alone is now over 10,000. Whole towns completely wiped off the map. Even if people escaped with their lives, those lives are now shattered. And now it looks as though the 20-year slow-motion collapse of Japan’s economy could be...
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No Child Left Inside: Unplug your kids and kick them outside!
“Every child,” wrote pioneer botanist Luther Burbank, “should have mud pies, grasshoppers, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pinecones, rocks to roll, snakes, huckleberries and hornets. And any child who has been deprived of...
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Honeywell Bannister Complex in Kansas City Hides Pollutants
The Honeywell complex in Kansas City owned by the General Service Administration (GSA) and regulated by the NNSA is a toxic waste dump. Instead of holding the corporations liable for the mess they have created the EPA has created a program referred to as a Superfund. The EPA states:  Superfund is the federal government’s program to clean up the nation’s uncontrolled hazardous...
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U.S. Pays For Corporate Profit At the Expense of Human Lives
Kansas City, Thursday March 1, 2011 a group of concerned citizens gathered at the Cherith Brook Community House (A Catholic Worker House) to educate and plan protests against the building of nuclear warheads in Kansas City. Dorothy Day was the matriarch of an anarchist movement in the earlier part of the twentieth century. She began what is known as the catholic worker movement. The goal...
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Breaking: EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields?
It's been a long time coming. Now it's final. Lisa Jackson and the EPA have gone to the mountaintop and announced their veto of the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in Appalachia."This ushers in a new era of civility in the coalfields," said long-time coalfields justice leader Bo Webb. He added: "I think Judy Bonds just sent us all a little smile," referring to the recent passing of...
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Leaked EPA Memo Links Pesticide to Mysterious Bee Deaths
An internal EPA memo released Wednesday confirms that the very agency charged with protecting the environment is ignoring the warnings of its own scientists about clothianidin, a pesticide from which the German agrichemical giant, Bayer racked up about $262 million in sales in 2009.Clothianidin has been widely used on corn, the largest U.S. crop, since 2003. Suppliers sell seeds pre-treated...
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8 Easy Projects for Instant Energy Savings
Reducing your home energy use is the best of win-win deals — not only does it reduce your carbon footprint, it also saves you big bucks on your energy bills. That’s especially exciting when you consider that many home energy improvements are fast, easy and inexpensive. Often, the savings from an individual project are small, but when you start putting them together they add up...
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More Fun Within Reach Movie Teaser Trailers
This is update number 1 from our Kickstarter Campaign for Within Reach Movie: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1745972855/within-reach-movie-finishing-fundsWOW! what an amazing first 24 hours! 73 of you pledged for over $1600! We are so incredibly grateful. Keep on sharing! Speaking of sharing...here's some more from us:If you are wanting more fun trailers to watch...check them all...
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