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The decay of Canada illustrates two things. Corporate power is global, and resistance to it cannot be restricted by national boundaries. Remember back in the good old days when Canada stood for something? Sure, we were always going to be a pipsqueak among the big nation-states in the political game, but we had [...] 
The tsunami that hit Japan was one of the saddest stories of 2011. But that was a natural disaster. Perhaps even sadder is the ongoing destruction, due to the decision made years earlier to go with nuclear power. This L.A. Times story quotes this poor farmer: For the first time in my life I’m afraid [...]
I am always happy to receive email with a blog-link to the latest post from Ivan Doumenc because I admire his insightful and inspirational dispatches from the front lines of the salmon wars. Also because it’s a powerful story I don’t see/hear/read in the traditional media… maybe because there are some huge institutional [...] The NY Times has an interesting debate going on about the use of technology to raise to raise crop yields in poor countries (in the Dot Earth blog run by Andrew Revkin which “which recently moved from the news side of The Times to the Opinion section”… a switch which used to mean something [...] Remember when Canada was cool? Now we’re a global embarrassment. How’d we get to this? Media – Draw the Line at Tar Sands.
If amphibians are our canary in the coal mine…we’re gasping. For some reason — maybe childhood reveries of playing with frogs? — this part of the great extinction we’re creating makes me sad and mad in equal measures. Amphibians facing ‘terrifying’ rate of extinction | Environment | The Guardian. Those accusing the Japanese government of failure in its basic duty to tell the truth about the potential health consequences from the nuclear plant disaster at Fukushima will not be surprised to read this from today’s NY Times. Although Tokyo is a long way from Fukushima, and most people have been comforted by official announcements that [...] There’s a debate in British Columbia involving the Agricultural Land Reserve. Farm-friendly people say the ALR is being tromped on by speculators who will buy a farmland-designated property, then erect the permitted dwelling as a McMansion with more appeal to the rich non-farmer than a real grower producing real food. The ALR is North America’s best [...] Who knew? Not the Canadian Cancer Society. Nor the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. They think dosing our yards (and thus our children and everyone else) with poison is a bad idea. So who likes it? Crop Life, the pesticide lobby group funded by corporations which make millions convincing people to lace their own environments [...] Everything about this story is bizarre: from a woman being criminalized for growing food in her front yard, to the comment at 2:02 from a man with women’s ankles, to the fact that this important urban agriculture story is appearing on Fox News. YouTube – Woman Facing 93 Days In Jail For Growing Organic Vegetable Garden! [...] |
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