What isn’t being discussed in Congress, during the ongoing debate on the broken federal food safety system, is the root cause of the most serious pathogenic outbreaks in our food-the elephant (poop) in the room.
The relatively new phenomena of nationwide pathogenic outbreaks, be they from salmonella or E. coli variants, are intimately tied to the [...]
Biomass incinerators are rarely, if ever, factually represented by the many sales pitches we see issued by the energy industry sector that promotes them. In fact, the marketing language that has now become de rigueur is reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
To the point, biomass incineration is [...]
“The nation is spending hundreds of billions of dollars securing foreign oil. But we are investing comparatively little in federal research programs conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Energy, which are developing the biofuels and making the efficiency improvements that could make obsolete the multitude of costs from foreign oil. Let’s [...]
Great story for a college town!
“Imagine a retirement where you could have an extra $1million to $3 million in the bank with basically no effort. Now imagine telling your kids that you aren't going to send them to college. And, you go on, you want them to immediately start a business or get to work [...]
Our world is starting to sizzle as rising levels of greenhouse gases trap more and more of the sun’s heat in the lower atmosphere – a point that was confirmed on Wednesday when the Met Office reported that sensors from around the world were showing that 2010 would be the hottest, or just possibly the [...]
Devastating roundup of the month’s environmental news:
July in Review, Pt. II: Oil spilled (again), prison farms defended, posters permitted, dykes marched | The Dominion.
The “Dateline” special, reported over nine months by Ann Curry and titled “America Now: Friends and Neighbors,” was a heartbreaking hour of television for Ohioans.
The show was rough viewing, but it was also an oasis in the increasingly parched land of social justice reporting.
Connie Schultz: Telling the story of America | sunday, nbc, [...]
Living with the knowledge that we will die in the future is thought to be a burden of the human species alone. But living with signs that life systems on the planet we inhabit may be on the brink can be overwhelming.
Corexit, one of the products used in the clean-up, is banned in the UK [...]
Robert Pearce Editorial:
“The contamination issues associated with the Koppers Superfund Site are very complex. They include the deep-soil groundwater threat, the widespread surface soils contamination, the contaminated stormwater runoff into Springstead Creek, and the contamination of off-site surface soils from fugitive dust…
The current situation is the result of gross environmental irresponsibility over a period of [...]
By Roger Witherspoon
The unfolding events in the Gulf of Mexico underscore the importance of journalists not falling for the industrial mantra that catastrophic events can’t happen today because of “robust” safety systems and “built in redundancy” that ensure environmentally safe operations.
Oil companies have been drilling in the Gulf [...]
Fred Grimm’s Got it Right:
“Fat cats hate restrictions they’d endure under Amendment 4, which would require voter approval before Florida cities or counties approve developments prohibited by comprehensive land-use plans.
The amendment would cripple Florida’s construction industry and stifle the state economy, they argue.
The catch phrase among the YOLO set was “job killer.”
Despite such foreboding, polls [...]
By Roland Loog
“I am always amazed at where people put their trust. Currently, I have little trust in anything. It may have started back when Newsweek or some rag said “Greed is Good”
The theory was the more we want, the more we spend, the more we produce – good for sales and production. Bad for [...]
“With their deep pockets, oil companies have purchased loose safety regulations, slack oversight and support from key lawmakers. Last year alone, the industry spent a $168 million on lobbying — $16 million of which came from BP. The blowout on the Deepwater Horizon is a symptom of this undue influence. It is time for the collusion to stop. As long as it continues, Americans will pay the price in the form of devastated ecosystems and a fossil fuel addiction that benefits oil companies, not ordinary citizens.”
“Watching the life-changing environmental disaster in our Gulf makes me angry and in disbelief as a sense of helplessness and hopelessness overcomes me. How can such a catastrophic accident happen? Where were the safeguards? Why hasn’t our government taken control? It is obvious that no one expected anything like this [...]
Ron Cunningham’s short but striking editorial in the Gainesville Sun about who should really be blamed for the oil spill – us.
There’s more to Gainesville than meets the eye. For 93 years, a company known as Koppers, Inc. has operated a 90-acre industrial facility at 200 NW 23rd Ave. in Gainesville, Florida. The area is now ranked as one of the nation’s top-100 polluted sites. In 1983, it was declared by Environmental Protection Agency to be a Superfund site – a place so heavily polluted with toxic waste that it poses a threat to human health and the environment.
Environmental writer Trish Riley tours a green winery and discusses biodynamic farming.
via Subaru Drive Magazine: Winter 2010.
As we lift our heads out of the bunkers we’ve hidden in during 2009, we can see that the landscape has been cleared and that we’re already moving toward a sustainable future. We citizens of America have lived through an horrific year… really, an horrific decade. Yet this past year has brought us hope as we have never known in my adult life – and that’s 30 years. This past year has brought unprecedented changes that have been hard to ride, yet I believe they are pulling us toward the world we’ve dreamed of. While 2009 has been a bitch of a year, it’s been a boon to our future. Three cheers to 2010! [Read more by clicking the headline above...]
I am an idealist. I am hoping for a grand gesture from our President to bury 2009 and welcome 2010.
Someone very close to me was “downsized” out of his executive job when he reached the age of 55 – that is, at the point where he became rather expensive to insure and would soon be [...]
I believe that the problem of chemical contamination of our air, soil, water and bodies, although it is still largely under the radar of the public, will prove to be a more pressing immediate concern even than the current specter of global warming. These chemicals are killing life on this planet, us included. We should begin now to reduce our exposure to synthetic petrochemicals in as many ways as we can, by addressing our personal environments, our political regulatory system and industrial responsibility. Read a roundup of articles detailing the problem, with ideas on what we can do to reduce our exposure to these dangerous substances.
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