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• Getting the Shell Out of BC

  ForestEthics Advocacy’s Karen Tam Wu shares the exciting news that coalbed methane drilling has been banned from British Columbia’s Sacred Headwaters. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Mont. Land Board Approves Keystone Pipeline Lease

  

  Reblogged from Climate Connections: Note: Kudos to you, Gov. Schweitzer, for selling out the public to not one, but two of the meanest, nastiest pipeline... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Remembering Avalon on Winter Solstice

  

  Environmental and social justice activist, ELF warrior and political prisoner William C. Rodgers (known to friends as “Avalon”) died on December 21, 2005. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Florida Panther Deaths in 2012 Hit Record High

  

  Two Road Fatalities, Days Apart, Raise Toll to 26 by the Center for Biological DiversityORLANDO, Fla.— The deaths of two endangered Florida panthers struck on... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• A Rat Done Bit My Sister Nell and Whitey’s Poo is On the Moon.

  

  by Russ McSpaddenOne Small Step for Man, One Giant Sh*t for the Moon?On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo 11... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• EF! Eco-Choir Carols in Lansing, MI

  

  On Saturday, December 15th the Deep Water Earth First! eco choir met in Lansing to spread bio-centric cheer. First, they visited the home of Michael Barratt... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Manatees Threatened by Pacific Legal Foundation

  

  Despite 2011 being one of the deadliest years for Florida manatees on record, a right-wing legal foundation filed a petition with the federal government Friday... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Environmental Protests Continue to Flare Up at the Gates of Beijing

  Cross Posted from the Global PostThe rash of NIMBY protests across China this year has finally arrived in Beijing’s own backyard. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Armenian Activists Protest Prime Minister’s Arrival in California

  

  cross posted from ianyan Environmental activists hold signs outside the St. Leon Cathedral in Burbank, Calif/ L. Aghajanian Arthur Pogosyan, a Los Angeles-area... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• “Renewable” Engery’s Got Bling

  

  A recent article in Bloomberg News documented how gold and diamond mining companies are on the leading edge of “renewable” energy use. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Alaska Natives Take on Fossil Fuel Disinformation in Kivalina

  

  A Climate Change Storyby CHRISTINE SHEARERFor the Inupiat peoples of Kivalina in the Arctic of Alaska, the price of further climate change denial could be the... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Organized Resistance to the Tar Sands and XL Pipeline

  

  The Need for Immediate Strategyby Stephanie SmithThe controversial Tar Sands and TransCanada XL pipeline face increased protest from affected local... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• The Early History of the Robot Wars, Part 1

  

  IN THIS EPISODE: WTF? In the Eyeballs, Sexy Surveillance Mannequins and Other Shit Escaping the Constraints of Biology by Russ McSpaddenWTF In The Eyeball? Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Lakota Warriors and Deep Green Resistance Call for Support on the Great Plains

  Activists and warriors have launched a drive for funds and supplies to sustain their ongoing organizing and resistance in the Great Plains region. Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Mystery of Underwater Crop Circles Solved

  

  by the Center for Biological Diversity Underwater photographer Yoji Ookata was baffled by what he saw off the coast of Japan some 80 feet below the ocean’s... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• La Via Campesina: UN Climate Talks Achieve Nothing, Promote False Capitalist...

  

  Statement by the international peasant movement La Via Campesina, December 7, 2012(Jakarta, 6 December 2012) – As the climate negotiations come to a close, the... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Wild & Weird: Need Green Cleaning Products? Try Flesh-eating Beetles

  

  by the Center for Biological DiversityLooking for Earth-friendly, nontoxic home-care solutions that really work — at least for maintaining your personal... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Gas Line Explodes in West Virginia; Homes Burn, Freeway Damaged

  

  By Kari Huus, Cross Posted from NBC NewsUpdated at 6:45 p.m. ET: A gas line explosion rocked the town of Sissonville, W.Va., Tuesday, setting off an inferno tha... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Daniel McGowan Released from Prison!

  

  Earth Liberation Front political prisoner and Rockaway native Daniel McGowan was released from the Communication Management Unit (CMU) in Terre Haute, Indiana... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• FPL Brings Pipeline Wars to Florida’s Everglades

  

  Despite growing resistance against oil and gas pipelines across North America, energy companies continue to push their plans for expansion. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 ENVIRONMENT