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.
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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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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Obviously, the larger the wind-turbine fields-the greater impact to resident and migrating wildlife. Large wind-turbine fields imply highly-centralized power grids…and isn’t centralized power the crux of the energy problem? Keep the operations small & locally-controlled, and maybe even the pheasants can be happy, too.
ASW
Study eases fear about wind farm threat to birds:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4900A120081001
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September 29, 2008 4:40 PM
CONTACT: Earthjustice
Jan Hasselman, Earthjustice: 206 343-7340 ext. 25
John Kostyack, National Wildlife Federation: 202 797 6879
Federal Scientists: Flood Insurance Program Is Pushing Salmon and Orcas to Extinction
New Standards for Development in Puget Sound Floodplains Likely
SEATTLE, Wa. – September 29 – Scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”) today issued a long-awaited regulatory finding that the National Flood Insurance Program is pushing orcas and several runs of salmon towards extinction, in violation of the Endangered Species Act. The National Flood Insurance Program is implemented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The document, known as a biological opinion, is all but certain to trigger significant improvements in the development codes applicable in cities and counties across Puget Sound to help reduce risks to people and wildlife. Without implementing the changes called for by NMFS, these cities and counties could lose eligibility for federal flood insurance.
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