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• Fierce Dreams Green Anarchist Gathering in Australia

  

  Fierce Dreams is a 3 day gathering that will be occurring from October 18th to 20th 2013 in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia. The exact location... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda

  

  by Brendan Fischer / PR Watch At least 77 bills to oppose renewable energy standards, support fracking and the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, and... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Fate of Harvest Camp Postponed, Considered a Political Lightning Rod Read

  

  By Mary Anette Pember / Indian Country TodayThe Iron County Board voted on July 30 to postpone action against the Penokee Hills Education Camp, referring the... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Frack Off Protesters Bring a Little Fire Engine Trouble to Balcombe Oil Site

  

  By Peter Walker / The GuardianProtests at a planned drilling site of a fracking company took an innovative turn on Thursday after activists stopped work by... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Flesh-eating Bacteria Thrive in Tarballs

  

  by Paige Brown / SciLogsTarballs on the sand near Opel Beach, FL. Image by Brian Hart, Flickr.com.Dr. Cova Arias, professor of Aquatic Microbiology at Auburn... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Political Prisoner Birthday Poster For August 2013

  

  From Prison BooksHello Friends and Comrades,1) Here is the political prisoner birthday poster for August. As always, please post this poster publicly and/or... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Twenty-seven Years of Pipeline Spills: What’s Not to Love

  from Center for Biological DiversityG As the U.S. Senate considers another Keystone vote, a new study released today reveals a deeply troubling history of... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Ongoing Road Blockade Against Mining in Sweden

  

  Cross Posted from Earth First UK Right now there is a battle against mining in Sapmi, north of Sweden, going on. We have barricaded the road leading to the... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• A Radical Approach to the Climate Crisis

  

  Art by Roger PeetBy Christian Parenti / DissentSeveral strands of green thinking maintain that capitalism is incapable of a sustainable relationship with... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The Corporate Strategy to Win The War Against Grassroots Activists: Stratfor’s...

  

  By Steve Horn / www.mintpressnews.com Divide activists into four groups: Radicals, Idealists, Realists and Opportunists. The Opportunists are in it for... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• A Major Tactical Breakthrough

  

  By Adbusters“… one thing is becoming crystal clear: the corpo-capitalist doomsday machine has never been so vulnerable, so weak, so ripe for the picking. Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Opinion: 350 Is Not a Boogie Man

  

  Mod. note: Due to troubling issues raised by activists concerning the premises and inaccuracies in ”Are Mainstream Environmental Groups Keeping Racism Alive?,”... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Southern Oregon Skies Thick with Wildfire Smoke

  

  by Pat Dooris / KGWSoldiers from Oregon’s National Guard will join more than 1,300 people who have already gathered to fight the Douglas Complex of fires in... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Warm Weather Blamed for King Salmon Die-Off

  

  Cross Posted from ADNAbout 1,100 king salmon died returning to a hatchery in Southeast, and officials suspect the cause was warm weather. Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT, WEATHER

• Mining Guards Kidnap International Observers in Honduras

  

  Cross Posted from SOA WatchOn July 25, two international accompaniers from the Honduras Accompaniment Project (PROAH), from Switzerland and France, were held... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Oso Blanco Needs Letters Written Demanding Continued Medical Treatment

  

  Please write letters to indigenous political prisoner Oso Blanco to remind prison staff that his ailing liver requires continued attention, and that we haven’t... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Environmentalists Target Argentina’s Vaca Muerta Shale Play

  

  from Latin American Herald TribuneBUENOS AIRES – Vaca Muerta, one of the world’s largest shale oil and gas fields, is not yet fully developed, but... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Feds Leasing GasLand in Ohio Without State Input

  

  from FuelfixA federal agency plans to open up a state forest in eastern Ohio to shale gas drilling.The Columbus Dispatch reports that the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Lawsuit Challenges 800,000 Acre Tar Sands Plans in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming

  

  by Global Justice Ecology ProjectA coalition of seven conservation groups sued the Bureau of Land Management on Thursday afternoon in federal district court in... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Fracking Protesters Glue Themselves Together in Balcombe, Energy Companies...

  

  Cross Posted from BBC Natalie Hynde, daughter of Pretenders star Chrissie Hynde, and eco-protester Simon “Sitting Bull” Medhurst formed a “human lock” by the... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT