Wikileaks: Marine Protection Zones are Being Tailored to Help Corporate Interests, Screw Native Peoples

Throughout the world, opposition is building to fake marine “protected” areas designed to fulfill the agenda of corporate globalization and the privatization of public trust resources. Full story here.

Photo by PlanetSave

Agroecology Could Double Food Production in 10 Years, Says New UN report

 [8 March 2011] GENEVA

 

Organic garden. l.p. photo

Today, the Special Rapporteur presented his new report “Agro-ecology and the right to food” before the UN Human Rights Council. Based on an extensive review of recent scientific literature, the report demonstrates that agroecology, if sufficiently supported, can double food production in entire regions within 10 years while mitigating climate change and alleviating rural poverty. Full story here.

Leaning Into Veganism: Kathy Freston on Why Eating More Plant-Based Foods Can Save Your Life and the Planet

AlterNet/By Tara Lohan Mar 15'11

Freston's new book makes 10 bold promises about ditching dairy and meat products. Full story here.

Salad photo by l.p.

The Harper Government Chooses Big Oil Over Our Students (Video)

New UN Project Uses Financial Incentives to try to Save the Dugong

14 Mar '11 – UN News Centre

Photo courtesy of PRLog Free Press Release. One of the rarest mammals on earth.

 The dugong, the reputed mermaid of seafarers’ lore, was today thrown a lifeline by a United Nations pilot project. Full story here.

Humans Must Change Behaviour to Save Bees, Vital for Food Production – UN Report

 

Honey bee hive. l.p. photo

10 March 2011 – The potentially disastrous decline in bees, a vital pollinating element in food production for the growing global population, is likely to continue unless humans profoundly change their ways, from the use of insecticides to air pollution, according to a United Nations report released today.

Manitoba's Bi Pole III Debate: Where The Rubber Hits The Road

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives  Mar 11-'11

Sustainable development and the precautionary principle must not be forgotten in this debate.

Full story here.

More Insights Into Tar Sands Attitudes

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Please read an updated vesion of my earlier article, "How Ethical Are Ethical Funds,"  here, on the online magazine, The Dominion.

OBSERVATION: If anything, this latest version affords an insight into how some can rationalize that how they invest is "really OK," because they can somehow make change from within - sort of like defending the indefensible. l.p.

On the Brink of Meltdown: The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

March 11, 2011 · By Robert Alvarez - IPS
The devastating Japanese quake and its outcome could generate a political tsunami here in the United States. Full story here.
Footnote: An explosion has now destroyed the building housing the reactor. l.p.

Gulf Spill Sickness Wrecking Lives

Dahr Jamail - Al Jazeera 09 Mar'11

Nearly a year after the oil disaster began, Gulf Coast residents are sick, and dying from BP's toxic chemicals. Full story here.

Chevron Wins Halt to $18 Billion Judgment in Ecuador Pollution Case

NEW YORK, New York, March 7, 2011 (Environment News Service)  

Crude oil in a Chevron oil waste pit in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.  (Rainforest Action Network photo) 

 In a New York courtroom today, oil giant Chevron Corp. won a halt to enforcement of an $18 billion judgment for oil pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon imposed by a court in Ecuador. Full story here.
PUBLISHER'S COMMENT: To the US judge who made this ruling - "do da word 'sovereignty' ring a bell to ya?" l.p.