Shooting Itself in the Foot, Brazil Spreads Concrete Through the Rainforest

Stephanie Brault - Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern...

Deforested area for
agricultural in State
of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
(flickr photo by leoffreitas)

Earth's Worst Climate Change Laggards. Guess Who?

USA Coal VS Canada Tar Sands? - America's dirty little secret

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/americas-dirty-little-secret/article1331242/

Influence wielded by coal-producing states - 25 of them - is the big reason the U.S. is a climate-change laggard
Jeffrey Sachs - Sachs is a professor of economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
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TAR SANDS - Canada's Mordor - Council of Canadians

http://www.canadians.org/energy/issues/tarsands/index.html

“To me, the tar sands are Canada’s Mordor. The air is foul, the water is being drained and poisoned and giant tailings ponds line the Athabasca river” – Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians Chairperson and Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the UN General Assembly

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Canada's Sorry Climate Change Policies - Sierra Club Canada

http://www.one-blue-marble.com/canada-and-climate-change.html

“Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative government, Canada has become an international pariah at climate change summits.”

The US Blows Up its Clean Energy Future

By Nell Greenberg, AlterNet. Posted November 5, 2009.

Coal River Mountain can be a wind farm that provides 85,000 households with electricity, creates 700 long-term green jobs but inside it is being...

Mountaintop Removal site

(Wikipedia)

Plan for Bhopal Tours Causes Outrage

By Sonma Laxmi, in Bhopal
11 Nov 2009 - Telegraph.uk.com

Survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster in India's Bhopal city are astonished by plans to throw the site open...

Conservatives Set to Spin Copenhagen Climate Conference

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 06:02 PM PST

Ottawa - Sierra Club Canada has learned that Minister Jim Prentice has established a Climate Change War Room.....

Why We Need More Organic Beekeepers

By Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. Posted November 6, 2009.

Bees teach us how to live our life in...

l.p. photo