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How the Transition Movement Is Spreading to Towns Across America

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Jessica Stites - Jun. 15 (Special Report) - “Until now, there’s been the things you can do at home on your own—changing your lightbulbs and sharing your lofts and things—and then there’s everything else that someone else is meant to do: the sort of mythical ‘they,’” says Hopkins. “Transition is what’s in the middle, what you can do with the people on your street.”

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Climate Tipping Point? Concentration of Carbon Dioxide Tops 400 ppm For First Time in Human History

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 13 (News Report) - The 400 ppm threshold has been an important marker in U.N. climate change negotiations, widely recognized as a dangerous level that could drastically worsen human-caused global warming. We speak to leading climate scientist Michael Mann, distinguished professor of meteorology at Penn State University and author of the recent book, "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines." Mann warns, "We have to go several million years back in time to find a point in Earth’s history where CO2 was as high as it is now.

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Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Surpass 400 PPM Milestone In May 9 Daily Average

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By James Gerken - May. 10 (News Report) - The milestone, hit on May 9, may be symbolic, notes Climate Central, but manmade CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels continue to rise, bringing greater atmospheric warming and exacerbating the effects of climate change

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Resource Shock: How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Michael T. Klare - Apr. 22 (Special Report) - Two nightmare scenarios -- a global scarcity of vital resources and the onset of extreme climate change -- are already beginning to converge and in the coming decades are likely to produce a tidal wave of unrest, rebellion, competition, and conflict.

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7 States Running Out Of Water: 24/7 Wall St.

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Alexander E.M. Hess, Samuel Weigley, Michael Sauter - Mar. 30 (Special Report) - The United States is in the midst of one of the biggest droughts in recent memory. At last count, over half of the lower 48 states had abnormally dry conditions and are suffering from at least moderate drought. More than 80 percent of

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The Coming Crash: Our Addiction to Endless Growth on a Finite Planet [With Photo Slideshow]

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Tara Lohan - Mar. 30 (Review) - If you want to understand how much energy costs, don't look at your electric bill; instead get a copy of the new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. This massive coffeetable book contains hundreds of arresting images showing the effects of our energy choices, including oil spills, nuclear accidents, massive solar arrays, tar sands mines, fracking operations, transmission lines, and more. The photos are complemented by essays from leading writers like Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, Sandra Steingraber, Douglas Tompkins, Bill McKibben, Lester Brown and many others, which put into context our growing energy problems and what we can do about them.

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'Extinction crisis' focus for CITES

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Matt McGrath - Mar. 03 (Special Report) - Delegates from 178 countries will review the convention on international trade in endangered species (CITES) amidst an unprecedented extinction crisis.

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New Poll Finds Americans Are Worried About Runaway Population Growth

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

biologicaldiversity.org - By Jerry Karnas - Mar. 01 (Poll) - The planet’s population could hit 10 billion by 2050, and a national poll by the Center for Biological Diversity finds a majority of Americans believe the growth could make some species extinct, is making climate worse, and is an important environmental issue. There’s a price for screwing around like we are. And Americans know it.

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Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

care2.com - By Rob Dietz, Dan O’Neill - Jan. 15 (Editorial) - Our pursuit of never-ending economic growth has become dysfunctional. With each passing day, we are witnessing more and more uneconomic growth—growth that costs more than it is worth. An economy that chases perpetually increasing production and consumption, always in search of more, stands no chance of achieving a lasting prosperity. Most of us are overlooking the underlying cause of our problems: our economy has grown too large.

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Stand Still for the Apocalypse

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Chris Hedges - Nov. 26 (Opinion) - Humans must immediately implement a series of radical measures to halt carbon emissions or prepare for the collapse of entire ecosystems and the displacement, suffering and death of hundreds of millions of the globe’s inhabitants, according to a report commissioned by the World Bank. The continued failure to respond aggressively to climate change, the report warns, will mean that the planet will inevitably warm by at least 4 degrees Celsius

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Wake Up! Our World Is Dying and We're All in Denial

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Mary Pipher - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - After years of being a therapist and a mother, I've learned that shouting "wake up" doesn't work. One of my most dispiriting realizations was that while I wanted desperately to preserve the world I loved, I didn't even know how to share this fact with my closest friends.

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Biotech Scientist: It’s ‘Awesome’ that GMOs Cause Infertility, Death

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Anthony Gucciardi - Oct. 12 (Special Report) - “I received from a very angry biotech scientist who proclaimed it was ‘awesome’ if GMOs were causing mass infertility and death, it becomes tragically clear that even many of the scientists working in the biotech field know full well that GMOs are causing significant bouts of disease across the globe.”

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The Latest Attack In the War On Women

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Tara Culp-Ressler - Oct. 07 (News Report) - The Oklahoma State Department of Heath has just announced that it will end its WIC contract with the state's Planned Parenthood affiliates, effectively cutting off the federal funding that the organization's clinics rely on to provide health services to low-income women. The WIC program - which uses federal funds to provide food vouchers to low-income pregnant women, mothers, and young children - has been in partnership with three out of the four Tulsa-area Planned Parenthood clinics for the past 18 years, and the dissolution of the contract may force those clinics to close.The state's Department of Health did not give a reason for the contract's termination, saying only that it will not be renewed for "business reasons."

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The Great Riches of Our Seas Have Been Depleted and Forgotten

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By George Monbiot - Sep. 11 (Special Report) - A paper in Nature uses government fisheries reports dating back to 1889 to estimate the extent to which fish populations in the North Sea have been depleted. Instead of simply charting the amount of fish caught there, which creates the impression that the decline of fish populations has been moderate, it divides the fish caught by the amount of fishing power used to pursue them: the size and catching ability (larger engines, better nets, electronic fish finders) of the boats being launched.

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Globalized Growth Is the Problem, Localism Is the Solution

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

truth-out.org - By Chris Hedges - Sep. 10 (Opinion) - The ceaseless expansion of economic exploitation, the engine of global capitalism, has come to an end. The futile and myopic effort to resurrect this expansion—a fallacy embraced by most economists—means that we respond to illusion rather than reality. We invest our efforts into bringing back what is gone forever. This strange twilight moment, in which our experts and systems managers squander resources in attempting to re-create an expanding economic system that is moribund, will inevitably lead to systems collapse. The steady depletion of natural resources, especially fossil fuels, along with the accelerated pace of climate change, will combine with crippling levels of personal and national debt to thrust us into a global depression that will dwarf any in the history of capitalism. And very few of us are prepared.

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Climate Skeptic, Koch-Funded Scientist Richard Muller Admits Global Warming Real & Humans The Cause

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Richard Muller, Amy Goodman - Aug. 02 (News Report) - After years of denying global warming, physicist Richard Muller now says "global warming is real and humans are almost entirely the cause." The admission by Muller, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, has gained additional attention because some of his research has been funded by Charles Koch of the Koch Brothers, the right-wing billionaire known for funding climate skeptic groups like the Heartland Institute. "We can make the scientific case more solidly than had been made in the past," Muller claims. "I think this does say we do need to take action, we do need to do something about it." [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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9 Ways To Keep The Global Population Under 9 Billion

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Beth Buczynski - Jul. 12 (Special Report) - Most analysts say that the world's population will grow to 9 billion by 2050. Is it possible that we can prevent humanity from ever reaching this population size?

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David Suzuki on Rio+20, "Green Economy" & Why Planet's Survival Requires Undoing Its Economic Model

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By David Suzuki - Jun. 25 (Opinion) - "If we don’t see that we are utterly embedded in the natural world and dependent on Mother Nature for our very well-being and survival ... then our priorities will continue to be driven by man-made constructs like national borders, economies, corporations, markets," Suzuki says. "Those are all human created things. They shouldn’t dominate the way we live. It should be the biosphere, and the leaders in that should be indigenous people who still have that sense that the earth is truly our mother, that it gives birth to us. You don’t treat your mother the way we treat the planet or the biosphere today."

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"Are You Here to Save Face -- or Save Us?"

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jun. 21 (News Report) - On Wednesday, 17-year-old environmental activist Brittany Trilford of Wellington, New Zealand, addressed more than a hundred heads of state at the opening plenary of the Rio+20 U.N. Earth Summit, the largest United Nations gathering ever. "We are all aware that time is ticking and we are quickly running out," Trilford said. "You have 72 hours to decide the fate of your children, my children, my children's children. And I start the clock now." [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Failed Pledges, Weak Draft Lower Hopes for Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jun. 20 (News Report) - Leaders from more than 100 countries are meeting today in Brazil for the start of the Rio-plus-20 Earth Summit, the largest United Nations conference ever. The conference comes twenty years after the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro pledged to protect the planet by endorsing treaties on biodiversity and climate change. Little has been done in the intervening years to reach development goals in areas like food security, water, global warming and energy. Although negotiators have already agreed on a draft document to be approved by world leaders, many groups working on environmental and poverty issues have criticized the draft agreement, saying it is far too weak. We go to Rio to speak with Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Earth may be near tipping point, scientists warn

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Bettina Boxall - Jun. 13 (News Report) - A group of international scientists is sounding a global alarm, warning that population growth, climate change and environmental destruction are pushing Earth toward calamitous — and irreversible — biological changes.

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Earth Tipping Point Study In Nature Journal Predicts Disturbing And Unpredictable Changes

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Stephanie Pappas - Jun. 07 (News Report) - Earth is rapidly headed toward a catastrophic breakdown if humans don't get their act together, according to an international group of scientists.

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Are We in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction?

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Richard Pearson - May. 06 (Special Report) - NEARLY 20,000 species of animals and plants around the globe are considered high risks for extinction in the wild. That's according to the most authoritative compilation of living things at risk - the so-called Red List maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. This should keep us awake at night

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Earth faces a century of disasters, report warns

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By John Vidal - Apr. 26 (News Report) - Economic and environmental catastrophes unavoidable unless rich countries cut consumption and global population stabilises World population needs to be stabilised quickly and high consumption in rich countries rapidly reduced to avoid "a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills", warns a major report from the Royal Society . Contraception must be offered to all women who want it and consumption cut to reduce inequality, says the study published on Thursday, which was chaired by Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir John Sulston . The assessment of humanity's prospects in the next 100 years, which has taken 21 months to complete, argues strongly that to achieve long and healthy lives for all 9 billion people expected to be living in 2050, the twin issues of population and consumption must pushed to the top of political and economic agendas. Both issues have been largely ignored by politicians and played down by environment and development groups for 20 years, the report says. "The ...

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Latino or Hispanic? For many Americans, neither feels quite right

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By By Paloma Esquivel - Apr. 05 (News) - Nearly half of those polled said they consider themselves a "typical American," while the same percentage said they are "very different from the typical American."

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