Source: Common Dreams by Rachel Smolker December 5, 2009 On November 30th, I spent part of my day lying on the ground in the middle of a busy intersection in the heart of Chicago’s financial district with my arms locked into big plastic tubes that connected me to 11 other people. Our arms, in the tubes, were linked [...]

Comisión Nacional de Emergencias saquea recursos sin permiso Fuente: Nuestro País 1 de diciembre, 2009 San José (elpais.cr) – Varias organizaciones indígenas de Talamanca, denunciaron a la Comisión Nacional de Emergencias (CNE), por saquear recursos de los territorios indígenas, de engañarlos y de amenazarlos. La denuncia está firmada por la Junta Directiva de las asocaiciones de Desarrollo Integral de [...]

Source: Herald Scotland by Anne Johnstone December 3, 2009 The Earth is flat. At least that used to be the universal view until about the fourth century BC. By medieval times, most Europeans accepted that it was spherical but old ideas die hard. So it was that just 40 years ago members of the International Flat Earth Society dismissed [...]

Fuente: Cubarte por Ismael Clark Arxer 2 de Diciembre, 2009 La Comisión Mundial del Medio Ambiente y el Desarrollo fue establecida por Naciones Unidas hace poco más de veinte años. En su muy difundido informe publicado en 1988, bajo el título “Nuestro Futuro Común”, introdujo definitivamente en el lenguaje internacional  el término  de desarrollo sostenible (o sustentable, según [...]

Fuente: La Época por Antonio Quiroga 30 de noviembre, 2009 Una cumbre que se celebrará en Copenhague, dentro de menos de dos semanas, reunirá a los jefes de Estado de más de la mitad de las naciones del mundo para tratar con urgencia los efectos negativos de la actividad humana en el medio ambiente, mientras se declara la [...]

EPA lawyers Allan Zabel and Laurie Williams exercised their First Amendment right of free speech when they posted a YouTube video criticizing the proposed cap-and-trade emissions program. But the Environmental Protection Agency, which has employed both Zabel and Williams for 20 years, ordered them to take it down and remove from it mention of their [...]

Fuente: Nuestro País por Héctor Monestel Herrera 29 de noviembre, 2009 El conflicto en curso suscitado en torno a la ampliación del acueducto El Coco-Ocotal, mejor conocido como el “caso de Sardinal”, en el cantón de Carrillo, provincia de Guanacaste, ha expuesto a la luz pública las consecuencias más generales de tres décadas continuas de reconversiones abruptas en [...]

Source: Baltimore Sun by Gwen L. DuBois November 25, 2009 On Nov. 21, there was a radiation leak at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., less than 100 miles north of Baltimore up I-83. One hundred and fifty workers were evacuated, and 20 people were exposed to radiation. The leak didn’t get a lot of attention [...]

Source: The New Internationalist A new realism has emerged. Climate change is no longer rejected as a bogus theory the economy can ill afford. Instead, it’s a business opportunity by Oscar Reyes December 2009 A flower blooms under a floodlight. It is projected on to a huge screen, behind a panel of expensively suited executives. A CNN business correspondent [...]

Source: The Fifth Estate (CBC News) November 15, 2009 How could scientific fact, which many believe could determine the very future of the planet, become a political battleground, left versus right, environmentalist versus climate change sceptic? The Denial Machine investigates the roots of the campaign to negate the science and the threat of global warming. It tracks the [...]