Year: 2008

Federal Wildlife Agencies Ordered to Ignore Global Warming

  By

Federal Wildlife Agencies Ordered to Ignore Global Warming

Any questions?

ASW

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 14, 2008  10:24 AM

CONTACT: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
Bill Boteler (202) 265-7337

Federal Wildlife Agencies Ordered to Ignore Global Warming
No Review of New Greenhouse Gas Pollution for Impact on Species or Habitat

WASHINGTON – October 14 – Top Bush administration officials have forbidden wildlife
agencies from analyzing the effects of greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired
power-plants or any other project on species and habitat, according to documents
released today by Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility (PEER). These directives are designed to block the
Endangered Species Act (ESA) from being used as a legal tool for addressing global
warming.

Continue reading

Rethinking Climate, Forests, Wildfires, & Biodiversity

  By Uncategorized

Rethinking Climate, Forests, Wildfires, & Biodiversity
NOTES FROM THE 88 FIRE CONFERENCE
George Wuerthner

I attended the 88 fires: Yellowstone and Beyond fire conference in  Jackson,
Wyoming. The conference went on for five days and had many  simultaneous
presentations, featuring some of the latest insights  into wildfire ecology and fire
behavior. The following are some of  the highlights.

Weather and climate figured into many presentations for a variety of  reasons.
Speakers like Tony Westerling of the University of
California and Tom Swetnam of Arizona State University spoke about  long term global
climate change which will likely increase the
severity and number of large wildfires in the future.

Continue reading

Collateral Damage: Organic Farmers Being Squeezed Out; Corporate Takeover Threatens Farmers, Mission

  By Uncategorized

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 13, 2008  10:10 AM

CONTACT: The Cornucopia Institute
Mark Kastel, 608.625.2042

Collateral Damage: Organic Farmers Being Squeezed Out
Corporate Takeover Threatens Farmers, Mission

CORNUCOPIA, Wis. – October 13 – Groups representing organic farmers and their
customers are calling on consumers to help save the organic industry by exclusively
patronizing dairies, and other brands, that uphold the spirit and letter of the
federal organic law.  They claim the acquisition of major brands by corporate
agribusiness, and their dependence on factory farms, threatens to force families off
the land and deprive consumers of the superior nutritional food they think they are
paying for.

Continue reading

Haiti’s Hurricane Victims Facing Homelessness and Food Shortages

  By

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 13, 2008  1:32 PM

CONTACT: Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Haiti’s Hurricane Victims Facing Homelessness and Food Shortages
MSF Denounces Inefficient Emergency Response in Gonaïves

GONAIVES – October 13 – Five weeks after a series of hurricanes struck Haiti, people
in the city of Gonaïves are still deprived of essential services, the international
medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières
(MSF) said today. Since early October, families have been evicted from schools and
churches where they had sought refuge after the storms destroyed their homes.

Continue reading