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Znet Article Mckibben: How Close to Catastrophe?

Znet Article, October, 23 2006 Bill Mckibben
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James Lovelock is among the planet's most interesting and productive scientists. His invention of an electron capture device that was able to detect tiny amounts of chemicals enabled other scientists both to understand the dangers of DDT to the eg...

Znet Article Monbiot: Who's Paying?

Znet Article, September, 28 2006 George Monbiot
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On the letters page of the Guardian last week, a Dr Alan Kendall attacked the Royal Society for "smearing" its opponents. It had sent an official letter to Exxon, complaining about the oil company's "inaccurate and misleading" portrayal of the sci...

Znet Article Klare: Reading the Gas Pump Numbers

Znet Article, September, 27 2006 Michael t. Klare
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What the hell is going on here? Just six weeks ago, gasoline prices at the pump were hovering at the $3 per gallon mark; today, they're inching down toward $2 -- and some analysts predict even lower numbers before the November elections. The sharp...

Znet Article Z: 10 Reasons Why Cars Suck

Znet Article, September, 26 2006 Mickey Z
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There's an interesting courtroom battle shaping up out in California. The state is attempting to institute new emissions standards for greenhouse gases. Such regulations could reduce exhaust emissions by 25% in cars and light trucks and 18% in SUV...

Znet Article Harvey: The heat is on: how global warming could suddenly tip over and ignite calamity

Znet Article, September, 20 2006 Fiona Harvey
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Scientists at Nasa, instead of staring into the skies, have been using satellites to look down at the world and track how it is changing. Within a year, the US space agency disclosed this week, an area of sea ice "the size of Texas" had been lost ...

Znet Article Tidwell: Remembering and Learning from Katrina

Znet Article, September, 04 2006 Mike Tidwell
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How's this for poetic justice? In future years, the White House and all those federal agencies which acted so slowly after Hurricane Katrina smashed New Orleans last August, leading to an unknown amount of unnecessary death and suffering, will pro...

Zmag Article Bondgraham: Anarchitecture

Zmag Article, September, 01 2006 Darwin Bondgraham
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R ight now in any given town or city in the United States (indeed across much of the world) small groups of mostly well-educated upper class (mostly) men are designing the future of the built envir...

Znet Article Cohen: Notes on the Ecological Dimension

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Mitchel Cohen
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(A talk by Mitchel Cohen at the "Another World is Necessary" conference on July 24, 2006 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, sponsored by the Center for Global Justice.) There is a kind of environmentalist who argues that police clubs must be made...

Znet Article Glick: No More Oil Wars; Clean Energy Now!

Znet Article, July, 31 2006 Ted Glick
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As a new front in the Middle East powder keg opens up in Lebanon, as Iraq descends into what can only be called civil war, as the Taliban makes a comeback in Afghanistan and as the U.S. continues to rattle its sabers at Iran and Syria, it might ma...

Znet Article Tidwell: Stop the NOAA Cover-up!

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Mike Tidwell
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We have a prediction: the National Hurricane Center and its parent group, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are wrong. They are predicting for this year "13 to 16 named storms, with eight to 10 becoming hurricanes, of which four ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Thanks, But We Still Don't Need It

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 George Monbiot
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If someone had worked out how to cause a war within the environment movement, they could not have developed a better means than nuclear power. In public, we will line up to attack the energy review published by the government today. In private we ...

Znet Article Glick: No More Waiting

Znet Article, July, 06 2006 Ted Glick
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Have you seen Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth?" If so, you will understand what you are about to read. If not, you must go. Your life depends on it. From this day forward we, the authors of this column, understanding the destiny of our pl...

Zmag Article Darby: Women Creating

Zmag Article, July, 01 2006 Jodi Darby
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B olivian anarchofeminist Maria Galindo is one of the founding members of Mujeres Creando (Women Creating). Mujeres Creando operates a café, library, press, and community center in the Sopocac...

Znet Article Morrison: Another Inconvenient Truth

Znet Article, June, 21 2006 Roy Morrison
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As Al Gore's global warming call to action flickers on the screens of America's multiplexes, we must face another inconvenient truth. We need to confront the really bad climate change news behind China's economic boom built on dirty coal. And we ...

Znet Article Loeb: Global Warming, Local Hope

Znet Article, June, 16 2006 Paul rogat Loeb
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As the evidence of global warming becomes inescapable, I fear Americans will switch instead to a fatalistic pessimism. Maybe it's real and maybe it's our fault, this sentiment goes, but at this point there's nothing we can do, so we're off the hoo...

Znet Article Davis: The Imperial City and the City of Slums

Znet Article, May, 12 2006 Mike Davis
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The Imperial City and the City of Slums

Znet Article Cromwell: From A Dying Planet

Znet Article, May, 11 2006 David Cromwell
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Last year we reported that Michael McCarthy, environment editor of the Independent, was "taken aback" at dramatic scientific warnings of "major new threats" in the Earth's climate system. For instance, the West Antarctic ice sheet, previously cons...

Znet Article Connor: Global Warming Fastest For 20,000 Years

Znet Article, May, 04 2006 Steve Connor
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Global warming is made worse by man-made pollution and the scale of the problem is unprecedented in at least 20,000 years, according to a draft report by the world's leading climate scientists. The leaked assessment by the group of international...

Znet Article Sinai: The Middle Kingdom Convulses With Change

Znet Article, April, 13 2006 Agnès Sinai
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Every spring, fierce winds, sweeping across the arid landscape of Inner Mongolia, blow walls of sand hundreds of kilometres eastwards, periodically enveloping Beijing and turning day to night. The authorities have planted thousands of hedges in th...

Znet Article Cromwell: The Curiosities of Utopian Thinking

Znet Article, March, 28 2006 David Cromwell
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Sean O'Grady wrote recently in the ad-filled motoring supplement of The Independent: "in answer to the many letters we get criticising some of our coverage, we don't make cars. We just write about them. [...] We try to concentrate on telling our r...

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