News :: Education & Youth
Permaculture and Peak Oil
27 Jun 2005
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Aron Goldsmith
Peak Oil and Permaculture explains the dynamics of the impending peak in global oil production and the implications for Australian society. Declining energy availability will spell the end of global economic growth and the consumerist culture it supports.
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Monsanto's Bt corn Disaster: Burden not Boon to Agriculture
24 Jun 2005
by
Greenpeace Philippines
The Greenpeace report challenges Monsanto's claim that Bt corn is the answer to poverty.
How bad is it for your health?
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LOCAL News :: Animal Rights : Education & Youth : Environment & Food : Government & Elections : Poverty & Urban Development
Endangered River
Barry Swenson holds an almost sixty percent stakehold in the irrigation district which drained this river. The multi million dollar land developer is now proposing to build a hydroelectric plant at these same levels.
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USA puts farmers and Gardeners in Prisons. Are You next?
21 Jun 2005
by
Gloria Lopez
Monsanto Keeps Up Attack on Seed Saving Farmers and Gardeners, and is destroying local Family farmers.
Will the USA coporaton Monsanto take away your Job and ravish your Family?
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Education & Youth : Environment & Food : Resistance & Tactics
Successfull week of Anti-MountaintopRemoval activity in Lexington
19 Jun 2005
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Mountain Justice Summer
During the week of June 13 in Lexington, KY, a meal of toxic coal sludge scraped out of a stream in eastern Kentucky was delivered to the president of a coal advocacy group, hundreds of concerned citizens attended an anti-mountain top removal (MTR) rally and march that ended at Kentucky Utility's headquarters, a film festival educated Lexingtonians about the dangers of strip mining and its repercussions, and activists passed out literature on the streets, all part of Mountain Justice Summer's week in Lexington, Kentucky.
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