Farmers Set Fire to Imported Sugar in Uttar Pradesh

Sun Nov 1, 2009

LUCKNOW (Reuters) - Farmers in India's biggest cane-producing state set fire to part of a goods train...

The Tar Sands - the Dirty New Gold Rush That is Blackening Canada’s Name

November 4, 2009 - Ben Webster - TimesOnline

A giant mechanical digger gouges out a chunk of topsoil...

Editor's note: Aerial photos
of the tar sands
like this one are now being
touted as works of art!
Our callousness toward the
natural world is surely now
complete. l.p.

Worldwatch Report: Global Environmental Change: The Threat to Human Health

Global Environmental Change: The Threat to Human Health Author: Samuel S. Myers, MD, MPH

Climate Negotiators Grow Impatient at Lack of Leadership From America (& Canada,too?l.p.)

UN and EU pile pressure on US to set ambitious carbon cuts...

• John Vidal in Barcelona
• guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 November 2009

Radio Program (Podcast) on Family Farms

Listen to a one-hour program on CBC Radio's, "The Current" about the assault on Canada's family farmers by agribusiness.
Go to:
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/
scroll down & click on "Pt.2 - War in the Country."
Thanks!
l.p.

Reforming Our Food Production Can Start With Curbing Antibiotic Use

Rep. Louise Slaughter - U.S. Congresswoman from New York's 28th District November 3, 2009
Huffington Post

Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, "Eating Animals," has inspired a lively discussion here at HuffPo about how we produce the food...

Lizards, Rodent and Tree Frog Join Over 17,000 Others on Endangered Species List

By: Frank Jordans, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - 3/11/2009

GENEVA - A rare Panamanian tree frog, a rodent from Madagascar and two lizards found only in the Philippines are among...