Climate Change Worsens Global Poverty and Inequity

by Dr. Atiq Rahman, Exec.-Dir. of BCAS, Dhaka and Winner of the UN's "Champion of the Earth" award - 2008

An Indonesian farmer ploughs through hardened soil on a rain-dependent rice field. Courtesy of flickr
Global climate change has emerged as the greatest threat facing humankind today...

Monsanto in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq.

Organic Consumers Association, Se'09

From the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, OCA has been tracking the opportunities for Monsanto, a well-known war profiteer...

H1N1 Arrives in Manitoba Hogs

Manitoba Co-Operator - Staff - 9/3/2009 Sarah Kearney - Wpeg. F.P.

The pandemic flu strain H1N1 has crossed over to hogs in various areas of Manitoba...
Please also read - "Green Party of Manitoba Believes Now is the Time to Put an End to CAFOs"
and "The CAFO Syndrome."

Rot-Gut Liquor

Posted on 7 Apr 2009 - by Tom Philpott - Grist

Greg Southam, Canwest News Service
Amid a sea of troubles, ethanol now has an antibiotics problem...

Cdn. Taxpayers Back SK. Ethanol Plant

Staff- MB Co-Operator - 9/1/2009

A Manitoba ethanol plant. l.p. photo
A federal biofuels incentive fund has followed through on its contribution agreement to support a Saskatchewan plant producing wheat- and corn-based ethanol.

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Ed's. Note: The hemorrhage of millions of our taxpayer dollars continues to flow into this failed technology which only makes world hunger worse. l.p.

Please also read "Bursting the Ethanol Bubble" here.

Nitrous Oxide Now Top Ozone-depleting Emission

ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2009)

Nitrous oxide has now become the largest ozone-depleting substance emitted through human activities...

Ag. fertilizers are a huge
contributor. Govt. of AB photo

Wal-Mart Faces Its Day of Reckoning

Frank Nelson, Miller-McCune.com. Au. 24, 2009.

Wal*Mart's relentless growth and Darwinian competitiveness have created a world that is increasingly inhospitable to its own success.