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.

Coastal Wetlands Blunt Storm Impacts

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Published on Monday, September 22, 2008 by The Day (Connecticut)

Wetlands-Nature’s ‘Horizontal Levees’-Blunt Storm Damage
Recent study puts a dollar value on their ability to protect coast

by Judy Benson

In 1960, Hurricane Donna taught Bob Fish a lesson he’s never forgotten.

Go to theday.com to read the complete report,

The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Hurricane Protection. Great Hammock
marsh in Old Saybrook is an example of coastal wetlands that have tangible
value in absorbing a hurricane or other major storm’s floodwaters. Go to
theday.com to read the complete report, The Value of Coastal Wetlands for
Hurricane Protection. Fish lived then on the west side of Old Saybrook
close to the Long Island Sound shoreline. As Donna’s 100-mph winds swept
through southeastern Connecticut, he recalled, the Great Hammock tidal
marsh between his neighborhood and the Sound filled quickly with waters
from the storm surge. Some roads in the neighborhood flooded, but homes
and other property were for the most part spared.
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Organic Farm Blossoms in Kenya’s Largest Slum

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Organic Farm Blossoms in Kenya’s Largest Slum

Published on Saturday, September 20, 2008 by Guardian/UK
Organic Farm Blossoms in Kenya’s Largest Slum

by Xan Rice in Nairobi

Victor Matioli’s organic pumpkins are plump, his coriander aromatic and his spinach
“very soft, sweet, and tasty”. His half-acre farm is a former rubbish dump in the
heart of east Africa’s biggest slum.

So arresting is the sight of tall sunflowers growing amid the rust-coloured shacks
and dirt paths of Kibera that Matioli and his fellow growers have had to put up a
“No photographing” sign to allow them to work in peace. Their reputations – the
farmers are all reformed criminals – mean the warning is seldom ignored.

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Canadian Scientist Speaks Out

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Another egghead figures it out…wonder if he’s ever conversed w/ an
Indigenous person before in his life.

ASW

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“Climate scientists who grapple with this every
day … we see where it’s headed.
We understand it very well.

“I think the public needs to know, straight in
their face, that you can give up on
civilization as we know it. This is what I’m
trying to get across in the book. Do we
actually give a s— for future generations?”
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Vancouver Sun
Saturday » September 20 » 2008

Scientist speaks up
Andrew Weaver’s conscience pushed him into the political fray

Nicholas Read
Special to the Sun

Andrew Weaver says global warming could cause 80
per cent of the world’s species to become
extinct, and destroy civilization as we know it
by the end of the century.

It was pure chance that University of Victoria
climate scientist Andrew Weaver’s new book on
global warming came out during a federal election
campaign. But since it has, he’s taking an
extraordinary step for a scientist and declaring,
point-blank, no punches pulled, how he thinks
people should vote.

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