FALSE SOLUTION: Shale Oil a Bust
Energy Expert Calls Oil Shale World’s Worst Fossil Fuel:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/30-7
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Category: RT Newswire
USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.
Los Angeles Begins Composting Food Scraps, Yard Wastes
The cities are finding out about composting…about time.
ASW
Los Angeles Asks Residents To Recycle Food Scraps:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94509325
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Indigenous Protesters Block Pipeline Path in Canada
This situation is never easy: Indigenous Territory is being colonized by corporate fossil-fuel interests…there are Native residents who don’t want the development at all-aand there are Native residents who want what they see as a ” fair share” of the profit the corporation will generate from the development.
ASW
Protesters Move In Path of Pipeline in Canada:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/30-5
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More on Meat, Dairy, and Climate Change
Read this closely. The comments about the necessity for livestock in the so-called “developing” world are very valid: these people depend upon their relatively small flocks and herds (whether this be the Masai People of East Africa or the Dine’ People in the Four Corners Region of the U.S. It’s the privileged people-us-that really need to re-evaluate our relationship w/ meat & dairy. I get a sense that the cattle & hog industries are feeling the heat-so to speak-& are worming their perspectives into entities such as Ecologist magazine and the National Farmers Union of the UK. Here in America-we need this critical angle to get the livestock industry off public lands and out of the grain stocks. Healthier intact ecosystems, increased biodiversity, greater food security, more water, and fewer corporate subsidies…make NO mistake!
ASW
Published on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 by The Guardian/UK
Meat Must Be Rationed to Four Portions A Week, says Report on Climate Change
Study looks at food impact on greenhouse gases • Return to old-fashioned cooking habits urged
by Juliette Jowit
People will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid run-away climate change, a major new report warns.
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