Better Food Security Will Elude Us Without Human Population Controls

  No 9 ’10 - Lester R. Brown  

Earth Policy Institute

Courtesy - the World Bank 

The Coming Water Shock (Video)

Video on water crisis

The Coming Water Shock

"We're on a collision course with our finite supply of water," says Susan Leal, co-author of the new book Running Out of Water. It's not just that the supply is limited, she notes, it's our growing population, increased personal use, and climate change that are all playing into what journalist Anna Lenzer calls "the coming shock."

None Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A World Without Birds

Monday, 15 November 2010 THE INDEPENDENT

Could we be facing a future without birds? Our reliance on pesticides has cut a swathe through their numbers. We must act now, argues Kate Ravilious

Bird photos by l.p.

No Running Water - Watch Chapter 1 - Video

Thanks to the Winnipeg Free Press for this video.

Chapter 1 Video:

Helen Fallding introduces you to Manitobans living with no running water.

Scientists say Radiation Leaving Whales Sunburned Under Thinning Ozone

By: Raphael Satter, The Associated Press - 10/11/2010

LONDON - Scientists say some whale species off….

UN Report Warns of Threat to Human Progress From Climate Change

Larry Elliott and Mark Tran guardian.co.uk, 4 November 2010
Human development report says inaction on climate change puts at risk decades of progress on education and health

Only pools of water are left where once the river 

flowed This small village in Mali is being 

threatened by an encorashing sand dune. 

Photograph: Madeleine Bunting/Guardian

First Nations Struggle to Undo the Profound Harm of Greenwashing Tactics by Ottawa & the Alberta Government

Indigenous Environmental Network
OTTAWA, Nov. 5 – This morning the Indigenous...

 Immense trucks used to strip-mine bitumen. beautifuldestruction photo.