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.

Activists Denounce Forest Stewardship Council for “Misleading the Public”

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Activists from Global Forests Coalition and World Rainforest Movement
made their voices heard at a side event organized by the Forest
Stewardship Council in Bonn. After listening to 45 minutes of polite
chat from the panel about how lovely FSC is, activists held up a
banner reading ?FSC: Stop Certifying Monoculture Tree Plantations?.
They also read out parts of the statement below.

After a couple of questions and a short discussion, Stefan Salvador
from FSC closed the meeting, although several more people wanted to
ask questions and some pointed out that this should be a democratic
space for discussing the problems with FSC.

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191 Nations Torpedo “Ocean-Fertilization” False Solution

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it appears the forces of sanity have won this one!

see ya planktos / climos etc!

~b

The World Torpedoes Ocean Fertilization:
End of Round One on Geo-Engineering.
191 countries agree landmark moratorium on ocean CO2 sequestration.

As the ninth meeting of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD) draws to a close in Bonn, Germany the world’s governments are
set to unanimously agree a wide-ranging “de-facto moratorium” on ocean
fertilization activities. This first-ever global decision on a geo-
engineering technology should spell the end of commercial plans to
sequester carbon dioxide by dumping nutrients into the open ocean.
Nonetheless one ocean fertilization company, Climos Inc of San
Francisco, appears to be moving full steam ahead in defiance of
international consensus.

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Amazon Tribe Sighting Raises Contact Dilemma

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Amazon tribe sighting raises contact dilemma
Fri May 30, 2008 5:25pm EDT

By Stuart Grudgings

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Dramatic photographs of previously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted the precariousness of the few remaining “lost” tribes and the dangers they face from contact with outsiders.

The bow-and-arrow wielding Indians in the pictures released on Thursday are likely the remnants of a larger tribe who were forced deeper into the forest by encroaching settlement, experts said.

Rather than being “lost”, they have likely had plenty of contact with other indigenous groups over the years, said Thomas Lovejoy, an Amazon expert who is president of The Heinz Center in Washington.

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“Peak Water?” Is Water the New Oil?

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Published on Friday, May 30, 2008 by The Christian Science Monitor
Is Water Becoming ‘The New Oil’?
Population, pollution, and climate put the squeeze on potable supplies – and private companies smell a profit. Others ask: Should water be a human right?
by Marc Clayton

Public fountains are dry in Barcelona, Spain, a city so parched there’s a €9,000 ($13,000) fine if you’re caught watering your flowers. A tanker ship docked there this month carrying 5 million gallons of precious fresh water – and officials are scrambling to line up more such shipments to slake public thirst.0530 05

Barcelona is not alone. Cyprus will ferry water from Greece this summer. Australian cities are buying water from that nation’s farmers and building desalination plants. Thirsty China plans to divert Himalayan water. And 18 million southern Californians are bracing for their first water-rationing in years.

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