Friday, October 30, 2009

Canada Sets Aside its Boreal Forest as Giant Carbon Vault

By banning logging, mining and oil drilling in an area twice the size of California, Canada is ensuring its boreal forests continue to soak up carbon...

Artist: Mary Jane Eichler



Organic Farming Yields Tougher Crops


The future is now. What used to be scientific predictions of climate change are now upon us. This makes a major switch to organics even more urgent...

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Who’s Investigating the CAFO-Swine Flu Link?

Oc 29'09 - by Tom Philpott - Grist

6 months after the outbreak, is anyone?



Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Who Contaminated Canada's crops?

Martin Mittelstaedt, Globe and Mail-Wed. Oct. 28, 2009
Prairie whodunit has flax farmers baffled.
A prairie flax crop, itself contaminated with GM canola "weeds!"
What a tangled web have GMOs woven! l.p. photo


Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Climate Change Could Push up Insurance Premiums: Exec

Winnipeg Free Press - By: Andy Blatchford - 27/10/2009
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Harsh weather whipped up by climate change has caused insurance claims to...

Palestinians Denied Water - Amnesty Int'l.

- Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of...


(REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

On Carney's agenda, climate is nowhere and everywhere

Canada's National Observer Throughout Mark Carney’s whirlwind first months on the job, two words have remained conspicuously absent from...