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Friel: Serial Mistake-Makers on Climate Change (2)
Znet Article, June, 14 2010
Howard Friel
Friel's ZSpace page
Presumably, a respected author such as Matt Ridley would have thought to read my book, prior to criticizing it and me, and therefore would have been familiar with such details as I wrote about them in The Lomborg Deception ...
Saunders: Mining Through Roots
Znet Article, June, 14 2010
Sakura Saunders
Saunders's ZSpace page
In the highlands of Papua New Guinea, several villages rest on a man-made island literally surrounded by an open pit gold mine and its expanding waste dumps.
Smith: BP: No Friend of the Oysterman
Znet Article, June, 13 2010
Brendan Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
With gallows humor, my fellow oystermen around the country have been passing around a Youtube clip of a 1960 educational film produced by the oil industry entitled "Lifeline to an Oyster."
Friel: Serial Mistake-Makers on Climate Change (Part I): On Matt Ridley and Bjorn Lomborg
Znet Article, June, 10 2010
Howard Friel
Friel's ZSpace page
What shall we call them—those “skeptical environmentalists” and “rational optimists” about global warming—superheroes of best-selling books who write and speak in open opposition to facts and science as easily as Superman and Spiderman defy gravit...
Cooke: The Gulf Spill Continues: Is Obama Powerless Against BP?
Znet Article, June, 10 2010
Shamus Cooke
Cooke's ZSpace page
After BP successfully placed a cap to divert some of the spewing oil into tankers, thousands of gallons continue to flow daily into the gulf. August is slated as the earliest date that any permanent solution may emerge. BP remains totally in cha...
Street: Deepwater Lesson: Expropriate the Expropriators
Znet Article, June, 06 2010
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Amidst mass capital-imposed structural unemployment and ever-escalating environmental collapse, the ongoing epic British Petroleum-Deepwater Horizon spill â?? more than 40 million gallons and counting (far beyond the previous record set by the Exx...
Goodman: In Memory of All That Is Lost
Znet Article, June, 03 2010
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
The anger is palpable across the Mississippi Delta. As the Deepwater Horizon oil geyser, almost a mile underwater, continues unabated, the brunt of this, the largest environmental catastrophe in United States history, is rolling onto the coast, im...
Lausti: The Coming Demise Of Car Culture
Znet Article, June, 03 2010
Tapani Lausti
Lausti's ZSpace page
People addicted to driving cannot imagine life without their car. It gives them a sense of freedom. In their interesting and useful book British researchers Kingsley Dennis and John Urry write that "the car system is a way of life, an entire cultu...
Nevins: Memorial Day: A Time to Commemorate Mother Nature
Znet Article, May, 31 2010
Joseph Nevins
Nevins's ZSpace page
While Memorial Day officially commemorates U.S. soldiers who have died during military service, it should also serve as a reminder of the ravages of war more broadly—not only in terms of lost human lives, but also for its devastating ecological im...
Sanders: Oil Spill Shows Drilling Is Not The Answer
Znet Article, May, 30 2010
Bernie Sanders
Sanders's ZSpace page
The lesson to learn from the oil spill it is that there must be no new offshore drilling. We must transform our energy system.
Benjamin: Getting Naked to Expose BP
Znet Article, May, 30 2010
Medea Benjamin
Benjamin's ZSpace page
Diane Wilson, a fourth generation shrimper from the Texas Gulf and a founder of CODEPINK, has been watching the BP spill and the botched clean-up with a mixture of dread and anger. After all, it's her livelihood and that of her community that's at...
Weissman: BP CEO Supports a Boycott?
Commentary, May, 28 2010
Robert Weissman
Weissman's ZSpace page
Does BP CEO Tony Hayward want millions of people to take the BP boycott pledge?
Banerjee: BPing the Arctic?
Znet Article, May, 26 2010
Subhankar Banerjee
Banerjee's ZSpace page
Will the Obama Administration Allow Shell Oil to Do to Arctic Waters What BP Did to the Gulf?
Glick: Will the BP Oil Spill Be the Spark?
Commentary, May, 24 2010
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
Just about a week ago I was on a conference call with leaders of about a dozen national and regional groups which have made the climate crisis a top priority of their work. The two main things we talked about were the prospects for decent climate ...
Jamail: Trucking Toward Climate Change
Znet Article, May, 24 2010
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
The tar sands mining project in Alberta, Canada, is possibly the largest industrial project in human history and critics claim it could also be the most destructive. The mining procedure for extracting oil from a region referred to as the "tar san...
Contributors: Net Briefs - June 2010
Zmag Article, May, 24 2010
Various Contributors
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Items of interest from the Z email box
Bonfiglio: What Americans Can Do About Their Food
Zmag Article, May, 24 2010
Olga Bonfiglio
Bonfiglio's ZSpace page
Pervasive genetically-engineered food in the U.S.
Gupta: Geoengineering the Planet?
Zmag Article, May, 24 2010
Arun Gupta
Gupta's ZSpace page
Remaking the planet's atmosphere for corporate profit
Myers: Hubris: Techoil, Techweapons
Znet Article, May, 22 2010
Winslow Myers
Myers's ZSpace page
As I write, a plume of crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon explosion is moving toward Cuba, our purported enemy—but an enemy surrounded by the healthiest coral reefs in the Caribbean, a breeding ground for fish that eventually come to populate va...
Klare: The Relentless Pursuit of Extreme Energy
Znet Article, May, 21 2010
Michael T. Klare
Klare's ZSpace page
A New Oil Rush Endangers the Gulf of Mexico and the Planet
