Here's to a Safe, Peaceful and Green 2011!

To my readers,

May you and yours enjoy all the best of the season and the new year.

May 2011 bring more:

•  Love
• Joy
• Peace
• cleaner, greener attitudes
• citizens, politicians and industry leaders genuinely dedicated to a better world.

and less

• War
• Famine
• Hunger
• Disease
• Pollution
• Climate change

Sincerely,
Larry & Rowena
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Amen and Amen. 

Thank you for all the reports and postings...sometimes it feels like you are talking in the dark, I am sure, but people are listening...and you must keep bringing things to our attention.  

Maggie

The Gulf of Mexico is Dying

De'10 By Dr. Tom Termotto - by concernedcitizensofflorida

A Special Report on the BP Gulf Oil Spill

It is with deep regret that we publish this report.


Please also read Dr. Termotto's open letter to President Obama.

Innovation of the Week: Climate Smart Seaweed Farming

By Matt Styslinger - De '10 - Worldwatch Institute

At the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in...

We are Facing the Greatest Threat to Humanity: Only Fundamental Change Can Save Us

Maude Barlow / Alternet

Quite simply, human-centered governance systems are not working and we need new economic, development and environmental policies.

The Serengeti Highway

Shared by: Jen M. - the Green Pages - on December 28, 2010 

Most of us will only ever see a lion...

Buffalo photo by 

 etravelphotos

Editor's comment: The Dominion of man over the natural world is nearing completion. Notice, one reason for the highway is to get at material needed to make batteries for hybrid vehicles, widely considered by modern society as a "green" endeavour! Sadly, our assault on Mother Earth will only cease when human populations themselves, through one means or another, are brought within sustainable proportions. l.p.

Sacrificing the Rainforest on the Altar of Energy

By Milagros Salazar * Inter Press Service

LIMA, Dec 27, 2010 (IPS/IFEJ) - The construction of five hydroelectric...

Tambopata, Peru. 

(Photo: k lichstig)

Temperature Rising

A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning
By JUSTIN GILLIS - De '10

MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii — Two gray machines...

Ottawa Kept in Dark on Abnormal Fish Found in Tar Sands Rivers

Josh Wingrove - THE GLOBE AND MAIL De 17'10

EDMONTON— Hundreds of deformed fish found in...

'Dirty Oil' Anger Shocked Tories, Wikileaks Reveals

Allan Woods - Ottawa Bureau - theStar.com - De 23'10

OTTAWA—Canada was “too slow” to respond...

Editor's comment - A day late and a dollar short, wouldn't you say, Jim? l.p.

City of Brandon, Manitoba, Pulls Plug on Biodiesel Processor

By: Allison Dowd - 26/12/2010 - Winnipeg Free Press

BRANDON -- The City of Brandon is saying goodbye to its biodiesel...
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Editor's comment: Is this bad luck, or a lack of will? l.p.

EPA Presents Plan on Greenhouse Gases. Can Next Congress Stop It?

Christian Science Monitor - Dec. 24 - 2010

The EPA set out a timetable Thursday for curbing the emissions of greenhouse gases from power plants and refineries. But Republicans have signaled their steady opposition, and a battle looms.