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Posted by Joan Russow
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Thursday, 23 May 2013 07:13 |
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By Tom Engelhardt http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175703/
We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment: ecocide. But we don’t have a word for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on, the world as humanity had known it until, historically speaking, late last night. A possibility might be “terracide” from the Latin word for earth. It has the right ring, given its similarity to the commonplace danger word of our era: terrorist.
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Thursday, 23 May 2013 03:54 |
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By Silvia Giannelli
FLORENCE, May 21 2013 (IPS) - The wake of the global financial crisis, as many national governments in Europe cut back on services to citizens and used public money to rescue banks, taught many people a valuable lesson.
“Nowadays finance is an end in itself, to make money out of money, while it should be a tool to serve the economy and the people,” says Andrea Baranes, president of Fondazione Culturale Responsabilità Etica (the Cultural Foundation for Ethical Responsibility).
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Thursday, 23 May 2013 03:50 |
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International Day for Biological Diversity
The International Day for Biological Diversity raises awareness about preserving endangered habitats.
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Quick Facts
The International Day for Biological Diversity is an occasion to increase the global understanding and awareness of issues and challenges around biodiversity.
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Thursday, 23 May 2013 03:40 |
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BY Judith Lavoie / Times Colonist
About 600 First Nations people and their supporters march to the top of Mount Douglas Wednesday evening for an emotional renaming ceremony. They want the Saanich mountain to once again be known by its original name, Pkols. Helping to carry a new sign for the summit is Maori Paul Tangira (black and white T-shirt), a Gordon Head resident. Photograph by: BRUCE STOTESBURY, Times Colonist
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:29 |
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by John Dupuis on May 20, 2013
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013 07:21 |
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By Stephen Leahy
A man hauls water at the Chico Mendes landless peasant camp in Pernambuco, Brazil. Credit: Alejandro Arigón/IPS
UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 21 2013 (IPS) - Everyone knows water is life. Far too few understand the role of trees, plants and other living things in ensuring we have clean, fresh water.
This dangerous ignorance results in destruction of wetlands that once cleaned water and prevented destructive and costly flooding, scientists and activists warn.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 07:26 |
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Posted by Joan Russow
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013 08:26 |
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By Fabiola Ortiz
Trafficking turns people into merchandise. Credit: Amnesty International
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 20 2013 (IPS) - In contravention of international law, in Brazil trafficking in human beings remains invisible and unpunished, which encourages the practice of trafficking for sexual exploitation, forced labour, illegal adoption and the trade in human organs, according to experts.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 23 May 2013 07:18 |
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Posted by Joan Russow
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013 08:11 |
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BY By Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175702/
The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. The air in city after city hangs brown and heavy (and rates of childhood asthma and other lung diseases have shot up), because funding that would allow the enforcement of clean air standards by the Environmental Protection Agency is a distant memory. Public education has been cut to the bone, making good schools a luxury and, according to the Department of Education, two of every five students won’t graduate from high school.
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Posted by Joan Russow
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Monday, 20 May 2013 06:25 |
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By Rebecca Solnit http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175701/
Ten years ago, my part of the world was full of valiant opposition to the new wars being launched far away and at home -- and of despair. And like despairing people everywhere, whether in a personal depression or a political tailspin, these activists believed the future would look more or less like the present. If there was nothing else they were confident about, at least they were confident about that. Ten years ago, as a contrarian and a person who prefers not to see others suffer, I tried to undermine despair with the case for hope.
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Friday, 17 May 2013 19:37 |
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B.C. Environmental Assessment office highlights hundreds deficiencies in report by CBC News
May 17, 2013
A controversial application to open a coal mine in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island has been rejected as inadequate by the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office.
In a statement issued on May 16, the office said Compliance Energy’s application for the Raven Coal Mine near Fanny Bay "does not contain the required information."
While the EAO left the door open for the company to resubmit the application, the news was welcomed by local environmentalists who have fought the project for years.
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Friday, 17 May 2013 18:08 |
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Friday, May 17, 2013 (All day)
News Release - May 17, 2013
VICTORIA – The BC Environmental Assessment Office announced today that it has rejected the application for Compliance Energy’s proposed Raven Coal Mine, located near Fanny Bay in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.
The application was in the screening process and was set to enter its final 180-day review period today. Instead, provincial regulators have issued a scathing 114-page evaluation of the mine application and denied that the review proceed until information requirements are met. Among the many problems are the lack of consultation with First Nations, insufficient information around local drinking water and air quality impacts, and failure to explain how effects of industrial waste and tailings would be mitigated over the long term.
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