Global Food Prices Hit New High

The Telegraph - Feb 3'11

Global food prices have hit a new record high, amid fears that the 
escalating cost of bread and meat is adding to the turmoil in the Middle East.

Cyclone Yasi in Australia...Climate Change?

Zachary Shahan - PlanetSave - Feb 3'11

The recent cyclone that nailed Australia, Cyclone Yasi (one of the worst in the country’s history) cannot be conclusively tied to climate change. However, it cannot not be tied to it either.

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Billions of Climate Voices - Video

Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife: Not Even Canadians are Safe from the Kochs Anymore!

The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victorious. Unfortunately, when oil billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries (apologies for putting their names on the horse and ass’s asses) fight unwinnable battles, you can be certain the pointless battles will last a lot longer than they should. Putting approximately 100 million dollars of their money into right-wing coffers 
to keep fellow polluters happy and federal regulations lax, Koch Industries is more than eager to fight a battle that compromises our future and greatly compromises the future of our children.

Courtesy of PlanetSave (click pic & story to enlarge)

  

Please also read: "As Tea Party Koch Brothers Earned An Extra $11 Billion In Recent Years, They Laid Off Thousands"

Time to Fight Back: How We Can Take on Those Who Are Sabotaging Our Response to the Climate Crisis

The Nation / By Mark Hertsgaard - Jan 27, 2011

Here's a plan to confront the climate cranks face to face, on camera, and call them to account for the dangers they have set in motion.

Approval of Total Oilsands Mine in Alberta "Deeply Flawed"

Jan 28, 2011 11:48 AM ecojustice 

CALGARY, AB — Environmental groups are condemning...

Why You Can Now Kiss Organic Beef, Dairy and Many Vegetables Goodbye

Alternet -  Jan 31 - 2010 - The USDA has ruled that farmers are now free to plant GE alfalfa, and USDA won't even keep track of who plants it where. The implications are huge. 
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Editor's Note: What can we Canadians do, you might ask? OUR LAST HOPE in defending against such Frankenfoods is to make sure OUR PARLIAMENT PASSES the bill, below. Please read, understand and SIGN THE PETITION! THANK YOU! JUST GO TO THIS PAGE & FOLLOW THE PROMPTS! l.p.

Stop GM Alfalfa! Please Sign the Petition!

The USDA Just Announced Final Approval of Monsanto's GE Alfalfa
Take Action NOW to Demand President Obama Reverse this Decision

Dear L,

Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Has Been Approved, But President Obama Can Have the Final Say Demand President Obama Stop GE Alfalfa!

We just found out that Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack approved Monsanto's genetically engineered alfalfa for widespread planting this spring. This is outrageous and wrong, and it will hurt organic farmers.

Demand that President Obama reverse this disastrous approval. 

The USDA decision to allow GE alfalfa to be planted unleashes another unnecessary genetically engineered crop into our environment and puts organic farmers at risk of widespread GE contamination. The agency did no real assessment of the harm that GE alfalfa could do, and caved to pressure from big agribusiness to approve this genetically engineered crop before the spring planting season.

President Obama is the last line of defense, and can stop the widespread planting of Monsanto's GE alfalfa. Take action now to demand President Obama stop this disastrous approval.

http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5667

Thanks for taking action,

Sarah Alexander
Outreach Director
Food & Water Watch
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US Approves GE Alfalfa Plantings

Jan 27, 2011: The US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack...... 

 Organic Consumers Asn: As Iowa Governor, Tom Vilsack was a leading advocate for Monsanto, genetic engineering, and factory farming. President Obama proudly lauded his new Agriculture Secretary for "promoting biotech."

Tom Vilsack, USDA Secretary

Vilsack has, in fact, promoted the most controversial and dangerous forms of agricultural biotechnology, including pharma crops, plants genetically engineered to produce pharmaceuticals. When grown outdoors on farmland, where most pharma crop trials have occurred, pharma crops can easily contaminate conventional and organic varieties.

A Must-See! David Suzuki's 2 Hr. Special - Tippinig Point - the Age of the Oil Sands

Please watch this special presentation of the Nature of Things. Perhaps it should be required viewing for our kids in school!

Driving Straight Into Catastrophe

By Julio Godoy - Interpress Service

PARIS, Jan 24, 2011 (IPS) - Despite repeated warnings by environmental and climate experts that reduction of fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is fundamental to forestalling global warming, disaster appears imminent.                                                                                   (AFP/File/Natalia Kolesnikova)
According to the latest statistics, unprecedented climate change has Earth hurtling down a path of catastrophic proportions.