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• Moccasins on the Ground: It’s About Survival.

  

  Cross Posted from Peaceful UprisingThe Lakota people have vowed to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, which would move tar sands through their homeland and water... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Chaotic Community Board Meeting Ends Without Decision on FreshDirect Plan

  

  By Patrick Wall / DNAinfoOpponents of FreshDirect’s planned move to the South Bronx suffered a stinging blow recently when a judge dismissed the lawsuit they... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Brazil: Protestors Call on President to Uphold Indigenous Rights

  

  Davi Kopenawa, a spokesman for the Yanomami tribe, calls on Brazil’s President to uphold indigenous rights. © Fiona Watson/Survival Cross Posted from Survival... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Over 30 Million Bees Found Dead In Elmwood, Canada

  

  Cross Posted from Collective EvolutionDave Schuit, who runs a honey operation in Elmwood has lost 600 hives. He is pointing the finger at the insecticides... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Piracy and the Green Energy Cyber Wars

  

  By John Upton / Grist One of China’s biggest wind turbine manufacturers is accused of stealing software from an American firm, then using the ill-gotten trade... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Europe Raises Heat on U.S. Over Spying, France’s Green Party Requests Asylum...

  

  By Sam Schechner in Paris and Harrieet Torry in Berlin / WSJ OnlineThe leaders of France and Germany raised the heat on the U.S. Monday as the fallout from... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Quaking Aspen Population in Trouble

  

  Cross Posted from Herald ExtraIf Utah’s quaking aspen appear to be quaking more than usual this summer, the trees have reason to tremble, says a Brigham Young... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Building Burns to the Ground After Farmer Announces Plans to Open Mink Farm

  

  Cross Posted from Bite BackAccording to media reports, a garage and the machines and vehicles inside, were destroyed in a fire late on June 18 outside the city... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Ecology Forum Discusses The Declining Fortunes Of Yellowstone Elk

  

  Alan McStravick / redOrbit.comEcologists have been active in their response to the publishing of a new study in the June issue of the Ecological Society of... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Official: ‘Radical’ Fire Killed 19 Firefighters

  

  Jacques Billeaud / The Associated PressA sudden windstorm turned an Arizona forest fire into an out-of-control inferno that trapped and killed 19 firefighters,... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Hong Kong: Tens of Thousands Protest for Democracy and Environment

  

  By Julie Makinin / LA TimesCarrying banners saying “defend freedom” and “Chinese colonialists get out,” tens of thousands of marchers took to the rainy streets... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Community Justice Vs. Minas Conga Mine

  

  Local indigenous farmers on horseback form part of a protest against the Minas Conga gold mine, June 17, 2013From Root Force:A recent Reuters article examines... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The CRC: Another Dead Freeway

  

  Hart Noeker / Mismanaging PerceptionAs I begin writing this, Saturday night, June 29th, 2013, news of the death of the Columbia River Crossing freeway... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Paddlers Charge Silver River, Protesting Expected Cattle Ranch

  

  Paddlers charge the iconic Silver River, protesting Adena Springs Ranch. Photo: Matt KeeneBy Matt Keene / Earth First! NewswireGrassfed beef ain’t all it’s... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Update from the Trees: Notes from White Castle

  Cross Posted from The TreesLast night I slept in a warm, soft, bed, my housemates murmuring and playing music a floor below; tonight I lay on the cold, damp,... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• BLM Threatens Mesa Verde with Oil and Natural Gas Drilling

  

  Mesa Verde is the US’s largest archeological preserveBy Scott Streater / E E reporterThe Bureau of Land Management is proposing to offer eight parcels near... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• TD Bank Declares Its Love for the Ecological Resistance…

  

  And the Nature Conservancy isn’t a total sell outfrom Earth First! NewswireJust kidding. And so was the Tar Sands Blockade this morning, when they sent out a... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• 49 Acts of Powerline Sabotage, 19 Acts of Oil Pipeline Sabotage in Last Six...

  

  by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! NewsSmoke rises over a recent pipeline attack in Marib governorate, a tribal region in Yemen. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• 350 and Maine EF! Block Train Exporting Dirty Oil to Canada

  

  Cross posted from Commondreams.org- Jon Queally, staff writerSix Maine residents were arrested late Thursday night after a larger group of climate activists... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Goodbye, Miami

  

  By century’s end, rising sea levels will turn the nation’s urban fantasyland into an American Atlantis. But long before the city is completely underwater,... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT