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- ALERT! Tell World Leaders Urgent Climate Change Action Cannot Wait for a Return to Hyper-Economic Growth
Climate change and the bad economy are both symptoms of the same growth-based "ecological bubble". Tell governments to urgently address climate change despite the economic downturn, as both Wall Street and Main Street must realize that without ecosystems there can be no economyTAKE ACTION! Wall Street's sickness of growth at any cost, and its damage to both the world economy and global ecosystems...
Source: - added 9 hours ago - GUEST: Hansen's Proposal to Replace Coal with Wood Is Ecologically Misguided
Amongst scientists, James Hansen [search] has long been one of the clearest voices for strong action against climate change including ending the use of coal [ark | search]. Yet now he advocates replacing coal with wood from vast tree plantations [ark | moreark], burning the wood and capturing and sequestering the carbon dioxide. It is saddening that such an ecologically short-sighted proposal come...
Source: - added 57 hours ago - Get with the FLOW: No Water, No Life
Wake up to the World's greatest crisis! No, it is not financial; rather, the global water crisis [search] is both the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century. An important new documentary entitled "Flow - For the Love of Water" was released earlier in the year and sounds an urgent alarm, water resources are severely stressed globally and without massive societal and pe...
Source: - added 57 hours ago - Shared Survival Demands Global Citizens' Protest Action
Al Gore this week called for young people to engage in civil disobedience to stop new coal plants [ark | moreark]. As is typical with the Goracle, you never really get the full truth and ecologically sufficient solutions, even when he tries to be radical. To achieve shared survival we ALL need to physically protest coal, ancient forest logging AND elite rule -- the young and old, poor and middle c...
Source: - added 177 hours ago - ALERT: As Rainforest Action Network Prepares to "Revel", What Has Become of Their Old Growth Forest Campaign?
There is no chance of achieving global ancient forest protection, climate stabilization and ecological sustainability until RAN and other ancient forest logging apologists follow Friends of the Earth in withdrawing from the Forest Stewardship Council and uniting to work to end ancient forest loggingTAKE ACTION! Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is one of a shrinking group of international environmen...
Source: - added 225 hours ago - RELEASE: Friends of the Earth Rejects Forest Stewardship Council
PRESS/SOCIAL MEDIA RELEASE Major victory for Ecological Internet's campaign to end ancient forest logging as key response to climate and biodiversity crisesBy Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological InternetDr. Glen Barry, +1 (920) 664-1965, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org(Earth) -- Friends of the Earth (FoE) is the first major international NGO to confirm they no longer support Forest Stewards...
Source: - added 297 hours ago - Common Birds Dwindling, Humans Next?
You know there is something deeply wrong with global ecology [search] when populations of previously common and widespread birds catastrophically crash, and in some cases move towards extinction. A new study from BirdLife finds birds are threatened [ark | moreark] by agriculture, fishing, logging and climate change; concluding these findings are no less than a "sign of a deteriorating global envir...
Source: - added 297 hours ago - RELEASE: Urgent Environmental Action Must Be Maintained in Bad Economic Times
PRESS/SOCIAL MEDIA RELEASE Ecological Internet warns converging economic, climate, food and fuel crises are symptoms of massive global ecological bubble, and that without ecosystems there can be no economyBy Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet(Earth) -- Current economic difficulties are largely caused by failing global ecosystems and resource scarcity, and are not an excuse to reduc...
Source: - added 2 weeks ago - Permafrost Perma-Emergency
A new study in the journal Bioscience finds permafrost holds twice as much greenhouse gas [ark | moreark] as previously thought, and that "release of even a fraction would accelerate climate change dramatically". Covering some one fifth of the Earth's land surface, permafrost [search] is permanently frozen land, defined as soil that has remained below zero degrees C for at least two years. Permafr...
Source: - added 3 weeks ago - FEATURE: Old-Growth Carbon Findings Cause Forest Protection Schism
FEATURE ARTICLENew ecological science increases calls for forest protection movement to unite in campaign to protect all ancient forests By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI)A new study in the journal Nature [ark] finds old-growth forests are "carbon sinks" [search] and continually absorb carbon dioxide [1]. Australian researchers recently found logging primary forests release...
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