Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our Lives

Finally, public opinion around the biotech industry's contamination of our food supply and destruction of our environment has reached the tipping point. We're fighting back

By Ronnie Cummins | AlterNet | April 11, 2012

Photo Credit: Shutterstock/Zvonimir Atletic

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Fuel to Burn: Now What?

The reversal of fortune in America’s energy supplies in recent years holds the promise of abundant and cheaper fuel, and it could have profound effects on what people drive, domestic manufacturing and America’s foreign policy

By JAD MOUAWAD | The New York Times | April 10, 2012

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Access to energy - necessary but not sufficient to cut poverty

The UN estimates that 1.4 billion people have no access to electricity, hurting their ability to earn a living or educate their children. But connecting to an electric grid may not be the only solution

By Rachel Cernansky | Dowser.org in Christian Science Monitor | March 20, 2012

A worker speaks on a cell phone as he sits under the solar panels of a new solar farm in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The solar farm is Asia's largest, according to its developer Moser Baer Clean Energy: 305 acres and expected to generate 52 million kilowatt hours of energy annually. A new report suggests that access to energy is a key to economic development in impoverished areas. Amit Dave/Reuters/File

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World energy consumption since 1820 in charts

With energy consumption rising as rapidly it is hard to see what is happening when viewed at the level of the individual

by Gail Tverberg | Mar 16 2012 by The Oil Drum in Energy Bulletin | Mar 16 2012

Figure 1. World Energy Consumption by Source, Based on Vaclav Smil estimates from Energy Transitions: History, Requirements and Prospects together with BP Statistical Data for 1965 and subsequent

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Rio in 100 days: A consuming challenge

For anyone still persuaded that the phrase "sustainable development" is deployed as a treehugger plot to prevent any development at all, the words of the UN's top climate official on Friday should act as something of a corrective

Richard Black | BBC News Science & Environment | 12 March 2012

Rio may result in a commitment to shift away from fossil fuels towards new energy technologies

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Industries of Democracy and Bureaucracy Get the Remote Region in Indonesia

There is no word other than "amazed" to describe how industrial democracy and industrial bureaucracy penetrate remote areas of Indonesia

Arief Wicaksono | BoilingSpot | 10 March 2012

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China Coal Update

World coal production and consumption data for 2011 are not yet compiled and published, but one key number is in. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reports that the country’s coal output rose 8.7 percent from 2010 to reach 3.88 billion short tons last year

by Richard Heinberg | Mar 8 2012 by Post Carbon Institute in Energy Bulletin | Mar 9 2012

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Knowledge, technology, and the politics of rice

The current financial crisis in Europe brings out politics as we know it. The political leaders of nation states deliberate lessons from the past and negotiate solutions for a new future

by Harro Matt | Mar 9 2012 by Common Voices in Energy Bulletin | Mar 9 2012

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Annie Leonard: Creator of "The Story of Stuff" Shows What's At Stake with Commons Assets

Annie Leonard is one of the most articulate, effective champions of the commons today. Her webfilm The Story of Stuff has been seen more than 15 million times by viewers. She also adapted it into a book

Jay Walljasper | On the Commons | Feb 20 2012

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Processed food and coronary capitalism

The food industry is characterised by market failures that pass external costs on to consumers and to society

Kenneth Rogoff | Al Jazeera | 11 Feb 2012

More than one in six US children and adolescents are reportedly obese, triple the 1980 rate [GALLO/GETTY]

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Capitalism's destructive car mania detailed

The car, say Canadian authors Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler, who took a bus ride across the United States, is a doomed jalopy going nowhere. It fails, especially in the “home of the car”, on every green count

By Phil Shannon | Green Left Weekly | February 5, 2012

Cars cause about 40,000 deaths a year in the US.

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Will New Zealand be the first developed country to evolve a steady-state economy?

New Zealand will inevitably make a transition to a steady-state economy. The onset of energy descent — having less and less energy to use with each passing decade — will push it to do so sooner rather than later. The critical question is whether the transition to a steady-state economy will be by design or disaster

by Jack Santa Barbara | Jan 11 2012 by Feasta in Energy Bulletin | Jan 13 2012

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Energy Resources Saudi oil output 'stretched to the limit'

Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil exporter, has for decades used spare production capacity to cover shortfalls in output by other oil states and prevent prices spiraling in times of crisis

United Press International | Jan. 13, 2012

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The Faustian bargain that modern economists never mention

Historically people have shifted their belief systems in various ways. The Greeks and Romans believed in numerous gods and goddesses and attributed all kinds of powers to them. Then the great monotheistic religions came along and people began to believe in just one god, though they honored him under different names

by Dr. Gary Peters | Jan 9 2012 by Our Finite World in Energy Bulletin | Jan 11 2012

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Whither environmentalism?

In the latest issue of Orion Magazine, environmental activists Derrick Jensen and Paul Kingsnorth both express their frustrations with the current environmental movement

by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez | CommonDreams | Jan 8 2012

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China Increases Target for Wind Power Capacity to 1,000 GW by 2050

The National Energy Administration of China has set a series of development goals for the country's renewable energy sector during the 12th Five-year Development Plan, which shows that by 2015 the country's wind power capacity will reach 100 GW, based on the current capacity of 40 GW

By Liu Yuanyuan | Renewable Energy World.com | January 5, 2012

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Nigerians protest at removal of fuel subsidy

Thousands of Nigerians are taking part in protests around the country following the removal of a fuel subsidy, which has doubled petrol prices and transport fares

BBC News | 3 January 2012

The marchers blocked a major highway in Lagos

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Human bodies contain too many damaging chemicals

The International Year of Chemistry failed to tackle the worrying proliferation of potentially damaging chemical

By Geoffrey Lean | The Telegraph | 30 Dec 2011

Peter Cushing in 'The Curse of Frankenstein' (1957). On average our bodies harbour 27 hazardous chemicals Photo: EVERETT COLLECTION / REX FEATURES

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Global hunger for plastic packaging leaves waste solution a long way off

Despite measures to increase recycling, discarded plastic packaging continues to blight Earth

Juliette Jowit | guardian.co.uk | 29 December 2011

The "Plastic Bag Monster", a creation by Slovenian artist Miha Artnak, is displayed outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels May 24, 2011. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters

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U.S. Must Mirror France - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Fission

Readers of this space know that it's frequently addressed the United States' multi-faceted energy problem -- multi-faceted in that it involves both supply and demand issues. The U.S.'s two biggest energy form problems? We use: 1) too much oil and 2) too much coal

By JOSEPH LAZZARO | International Business Times | December 26, 2011

The U.S. must increase its use of nuclear power and phase-out coal to reduce greenhouse gases. France has successfully deployed nuclear power on a massive scale, including successful nuclear reprocessing at the COGEMA La Hague site. (Pictured.) (Photo: WikiCommons)

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