Roof protest links Louisiana to Rossport

Campaigners hung a banner reading “Energy shouldn't cost the earth” from the roof of Shell offices in Belmullet this morning at 8am [Thursday June 24th]. This protest connected the environmental disaster suffered by the fishermen & people of Louisiana with the threat faced by the fishermen and people of ( Read more... )

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http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/dos-and-donts-of-oil-spill-action-how-you-can-really-help

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Seems to me something is wrong. We use the term "national security" to describe securing our nation and it's resources. So the fact is, we have become totally dependent on large companies to run the national security of the United States. Take for example the BP oil well leak, now threatening hundreds of species in Louisiana. Yet we the people of ( Read more... )

( The government is now considering a ban on climbing on Uluru (Ayers Rock). )

An article from the NY Times that I think is important.

Clean Water Laws are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering

Here is one group that is helping to support and give a voice to those public employees who enforce environmental laws:
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

They have just initiated Obama Watch. Click on the text under " ( Read more... )

In case you haven't read this article yet... Good news. Hopefully, the cruise industry will clean up its act.

Speaking of which, does anyone know the name of the cruise line that has supposedly gone eco-friendly? If so, do you happen to know which measures they are taking to be able to call themselves eco-friendly?

Since the boom in bottled water, many people have taken safe water for granted, and while logic is pushing us back to our taps instead of filling landfills with plastic bottles, make sure you invest in a carbon-filter system when you do. Huffington Post did an in-depth investigative review "EPA Fails to Inform Public About Weed-Killer In Drinking ( Read more... )

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The video present to us the start-up work of new WWTP in Russia (Tula Region) designed and newly built by the specialists of Mendeleev University Science Park...