Save Our World: 350.org’s 10/10/10 Global Work Party In Photos
Yesterday, people from across the world joined together in 188 countries to dig community gardens, install solar panels, plant trees and demonstrate to push their respective leaders to address the urgent issues of climate change and global warming. The global movement, with the organization 350.org in the lead, wanted to send a clear global message […]
BP Oil Spill: White House Not Candid On Amount Or Fate Of The Oil
According to a commission appointed by the Obama administration, the White House blocked efforts by independent scientists to give an accurate estimate on how bad the oil spill really was in terms of the amount of oil released in the Gulf of Mexico, and on how much of the oil is actually “gone”. In a […]
Surviving Is Your Personal Responsibility
By Brian Brawdy In his new book Obama’s Wars, Washington Post Columnist and perennial White House fly on the wall Bob Woodard writes that President Obama believes “We can absorb a terrorist attack.” As many in the media line up to slam him for his comments, there are now reports on the wire of a […]
Sacred Rites Or Selfish Rights
The first is a failure of memory and imagination. We do not remember that up until very recently virtually all of humanity were locavores (and without particular hardship or ill effects). Because we cannot remember, we cannot imagine.
Gas Pipe Killer Inferno: A Symbol Of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
Last Thursday, in San Bruno California, at about 6:15 PM a 30-inch high pressure natural gas pipeline, belonging to the private utility company Pacific Gas & Electric Co., ruptured. The pipe rupture created a firestorm that killed at least four people, left scored injured, completely destroyed 37 homes and badly damaged 8 others. This tragedy […]
