The Fate of New Orleans Hangs in an Uncomfortable Balance With Mother Nature

Sunday 29 August 2010 - by: Olga Bonfiglio, t r u t h o u t

Hurricane Katrina demonstrated…

One of the many disturbing
scenese after the tragedy.
(Nat'l. Geographic photo)

President Obama's Cancer Panel: Eat Organic, Avoid Plastics

By Leah Zerbe - Rodale Institute Au '10

Our organic table at Old Market Sq. in downtown
Winnipeg, Manitoba. 2006. l.p. photo

A landmark report says the U.S. government has been grossly underestimating the effect of environmental toxins on our cancer risk.

Conservation Group Calls for Halt to Industrial Development in Manitoba Caribou Habitat

Manitoba Wildlands - 25 August 2010

Fire Destroys Woodland Caribou Habitat - "MW" calls for action.

Hinterland
Who's Who

Victory! India Scraps Large Hydropower Project on the Ganges

Fri, 08/27/2010 By: Katy yan
For the third year in a row, one of India's most eminent...

ClimateWatch Magazine » New Evidence on Warming Ocean

Globe courtesy of WWF
ClimateWatch Magazine » New Evidence on Warming Ocean

Earth Overshoot Day – how can we get out of debt?

WWF 21 August 2010

The world has gone into ecological overdraft.

Factory Farms Make You Sick, Let Us Count the Ways

Corporate Crime Reporter, August 27, 2010

Factory farms make you....

Chicken factory by
treehugger.com

Ryan Reynolds Video on the True Cost of Gasoline

More Major U.S. Corporations Join Boycott of Alberta Tarsands Fuels

Bob Weber, The Canadian Press - 26/08/2010

EDMONTON - Another four major U.S….

Tar sands
photo by
Beautiful
Destruction

Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline

Natural Resources Defense Council's Save BioGems News, Au 25, 2010

In northeastern Alberta, the lush forests, sedge meadows and freshwater lakes of the Peace-Athabasca Delta attract more than a million birds every year.

Manitoba geese photo by l.p.

These undisturbed wetlands are critical nesting grounds for tundra swans, snow geese, whooping cranes and countless ducks, but they are slowly being poisoned by tar sands oil extraction taking place just south of the delta.

Tar sands oil development has already contaminated rivers and lakes with toxic discharge, created vast waste ponds and worsened global warming pollution. Now, plans for a new trans-boundary pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast is moving forward, paving the way for additional mining and drilling in the boreal forest. Not only would the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline destroy even more habitat for millions of migratory birds, it would do nothing to lead the United States toward cleaner forms of energy production.
» Call on President Obama to oppose the tar sands pipeline.

Suburban Sprawl and the Decline of Social Capital

22 August 2010 - by: Anthony DiMaggio, t r u t h o u t

Why Long Commutes Are Bad for the American Body and Mind (P.S. Canadian, too? l.p.)

Please also visit this link and read about the tragedy of this huge, new subdivision that was supposed to be a progressive, green addition to Winnipeg.

Waverly West construction.
Wpg. Free Press photo