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Copenhagen Climate Change Talks Must Fail says Top Scientist

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Guardian - UK De 5'09 World's leading climate change expert says summit talks so flawed... Courtesy Climate Change Connection

Canada's Image Lies in Tatters

George Monbiot - Guardian UK No. 30-'09 It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling... (Editor's note: One right-wing blogger has called this story "a flatulent sermon." Really? I think it's bang on! l.p.)

Will China Turn Its Back on International Standards in the Ilisu Dam?

Wed, 12/02/2009 - 1:24pm - International Rivers The Ilisu Dam on the Tigris is a primary example of a dam that violates...

This Could be the Car of the Future! But Whose Future?

Courtesy of Eco-Driver Manitoba

US gives Shell Green Light for Offshore Oil Drilling in the Arctic

Conservationists say the decision by the Obama administration to allow drilling in the Beaufort Sea repeats Bush era mistakes... Ed Pilkington in Anchorage, Alaska - guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 20 October 2009

Federal Funding for Farmers' Markets

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Winnipeg Free Press - By: Staff Writer - 28/11/2009 The federal government will spend... (l.p. photo)

Going Green Means Having Fewer Kids

By Emily Badger , Miller-McCune.com . Posted Oc. 19'09 - Alternet There are already just too many people on the planet. What are we supposed to do about it?....

Climate Rage

By Naomi Klein - November 11th, 2009 - Published in Rolling Stone One last chance to save the world—for months, that's how the United Nations summit on climate change....

The Story of Stuff (Video)

Watch this amazing video, "The Story of Stuff - How the World Works." It pretty much tells it all. l.p.

Genetically Engineered Crops = Increased Pesticide Use

November 2009 - Charles Benbrook, Ph.D. 
Chief Scientist - 
The Organic Center Genetically-engineered corn, soybeans, and cotton now account for...

Millions of indigenous people continue to farm and raise animals the ancient way, the organic way.

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Nov. 26 -'09 - Organic Consumers' Asn. 4,200 Years of Farming on the Colorado Plateau On the Colorado Plateau farming has been an unbroken cultural tradition for at least 4200 years. The Navajo, Zuni, Apache, Hopi, Paiute and Tewa have cultivated the most diverse annual crop assemblage in the New World north of the Tropic of Cancer. The Wayana's Cultivated Eden The farming system of the Wayana society of French Guyana is based on diverse and flexible cultivation, with characteristically high biodiversity. Organic agriculture and permaculture form a rich, biologically complex system of food production, complimented by wildcrafting, fishing, and hunting. In Wayana, there is no artificial separation between cultivated and wil