The elder brothers, the Kogi people, who retreated through dense Colombian jungle to high mountain sanctuaries from lost cities, rather than be conquered by Europeans or converted by missionaries, have sent their first emissary ever to Europe to warn us that we are are killing the earth.
Kogi priest (in white hat) with Kogi workers tending to the lost city of the Tairona. 
photo: Steven Ferry, National Geographic
I have written many times about my great-grandmother on these boards. She has taught me a great deal about foodstuffs, foraging, preserving, and above all, Provençal lore. She always spoke in our ancient language, and quite often I would have to ask her the meaning of a particular word or expression. It was during our long mushrooms excursions into the wild woods of the Esterel that I have learned about our rich culture...and wild mushrooms.
During the mushroom season we would wake up at 4am, gather our baskets and walk for a good four or five hours before we'd stop for a bite to eat. I would always bring bread, sausages, salt & pepper and a flask filled with water flavored with mint syrup. I'd make a small fire and grill our sausages on rosemary sticks. Over the break, she would tell me another story about our past and we'd resume our march for another couple of hours. She knew exactly where to go and what to look for.
EnergizeUS is all about local energy jobs and the manufacturing needed to support that. EnergizeUS coalition member and Arizona Senate candidate Rodney Glassman has a background in arid land management and he immediately keyed in on the water issues associated with energy production.
This isn’t well known yet, but it is a very serious concern, and one we’d do well to address sooner rather than later.
As DailyKos has been reporting, the momentum building up to the Global Day of Action is accelerating at .... the speed of light?
Just today, Bill McKibben sends out notice that with ten days to go, last year's phenemonal turnout has already surpassed last October 350.org's events.
This post is the latest in our series of coal ash community profiles. Our work on coal ash unfortunately becomes timely yet again, as news came out this week of a breach at a coal ash impoundment in North Carolina. This week's profile was written by Sierra Club Apprentice Andrea Sanchez.
There is nothing little about Little Blue Run Dam, the coal fly ash impoundment that reaches into both Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Coal ash is the toxic by-product of burning coal for electricity - the Little Blue Run ash impoundment belongs to the Bruce Mansfield Plant. This plant is FirstEnergy's largest coal-fired power plant, burning around seven million tons of coal annually. At full capacity, the three plants that make up Bruce Mansfield complex produce four million gallons of coal slurry daily. This is where Little Blue comes in.
"Alaska: The Last Frontier" is so eerily echoing of The Final Frontier. And, as with ever so many episodes of Star Trek: The Final Frontier, The Last Frontier is seeing a struggle that could have life-or-death implications for a planet.
Alaska's election could, plausibly, be a determining factor on the nation's (and the globe's) path forward toward (or away from) a clean-energy future.
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