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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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently dealt a serious, perhaps, mortal blow to the Alien Tort Statute.
Tonight, I'm going to a take a slightly different approach. The subsequent segments will each contain action items, and I hope you'll follow through on each and every one. But the lead segment will not ask you to do anything particularly time-consuming.
In fact, it will not ask you to take any action at all, save one: It will ask you to bear witness.
Notice that I did not say that it will not be difficult.
[Editor's note: What follows includes graphic imagery.]
Lately we’ve been hearing a lot of excuses: people are unemployed because they’re lazy. They’re unemployed because they have skills mismatch.
The real reason people are unemployed is that the jobs they have the skills to perform have been exported at every possible opportunity for the last thirty years. We’ve retrained and retrained and retrained while this has gone on, until now they only industries left are training ... or going further into debt funding education in the next career that will be offshored as soon as someone figures out how.
Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
In this regular video series, we bring you images, interviews and more in-depth information about different agricultural innovations. Get to know the NtP team and the innovations we are highlighting regularly, and stay tuned for more NtP TV in the coming weeks!
In this week's episode, Nourishing the Planet research Intern, Janeen Madan, introduces an entertaining way to spread information about agricultural innovations, health, politics, and other important issues: the television soap opera. Broadcast throughout sub-Saharan Africa and with 7.2 million viewers in Kenya alone, Mediae Trust’s "Makutano Junction" is doing just that, proving to be a soap opera that people love to watch and learn from.
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