A Global Maui Moment
BY TOM ENGELHAR A long-exposure photograph of Lahaina on the night of August 8 to 9 from South Maui. Photograph Source: Wtp22 – CC BY-SA 3.0 From the earliest kingdoms to late last night, history has been […]
Category: Environment
Indigenous Voices Bring a Reality Check at the Assembly of the Peoples of the Earth for the Amazon
BY GABRIEL LEÃO Telma Taurepang. Photo: Isaka Hunikui. Peoples’ movements from the pan-Amazon countries published a collective letter with a series of demands in defense of the biome and delivered it to the heads of state […]
THE REAL REASONS THE DERNA DAM IN LIBYA BROKE
Posted by: John Phoenix More than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead in the devastating floods in the Libyan city of Derna. Yet mainstream media outlets would have you believe the destruction that has drawn […]
U.S. Offshore Wind Plans Are Utterly Collapsing
By David T. Stevenson | Real Clear Energy Offshore wind developer Ørsted has delayed its New Jersey Ocean Wind 1 project to 2026. Previously, the company had announced construction of the project would begin in October 2023. The delay was […]
ULEZ: a green greed initiative
Not so much an environmental measure as a tax on driving and an effort to keep the car monopolies in profit. Party leaflet Subscribe to our channel https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1503280519%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-u58k1cr7QBB&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true Download this leaflet as a pdf. The ‘ultra-low […]
Is the Release of Radioactive Contaminated Water From the Fukushima Nuclear Site to the Sea Acceptable? Is It Safe?
BY CHRIS BUSBY Simulated model for dispersal of Cs-137, 81 days after release of water from Fukushima reactors. Source: Geomar. The Japanese government, having apparently run out of storage space for the million tons of radioactively […]
Environmentalists Owe an Enormous Debt to Julian Assange
BY MITCHEL COHEN Photograph Source: Ivan Radic – CC BY 2.0 Environmentalists throughout the world owe an enormous debt of gratitude to political prisoner Julian Assange, the founder and publisher of Wikileaks — and most of them […]
The Maui Inferno in Historical Perspective
BY GARY LEUPP Lahaina, after the fire. Youtube screen grab. It’s a damn tough life full of toil and strifeWe whalermen undergo.And we don’t give a damn when the day is done/gale has stoppedHow hard the […]
The Deadly Intersection of Labor Exploitation and Climate Change
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Photo by Chris Gallagher As temperatures soar in the United States this summer, some among us are lucky enough to be able to remain in air-conditioned interior spaces, ordering food, groceries, clothing, and other […]
‘Project 2025’ Will Goose Up Global Heat
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Roxanne Desgagnés. The Far-Right takeover of the Republican Party has readied a battle plan for 2025 that will crucify commitments to fight global heat, namely: Project 2025 / Presidential Transition Project, a […]