Global Food Prices Hit New High
The Telegraph - Feb 3'11 Global food prices have hit a new record high, amid fears that the escalating cost of bread and meat is adding to the turmoil in the Middle East.
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Cyclone Yasi in Australia...Climate Change?
Zachary Shahan - PlanetSave - Feb 3'11 The recent cyclone that nailed Australia, Cyclone Yasi (one of the worst in the country’s history) cannot be conclusively tied to climate change. However, it cannot not be tied to it either. ctv.ca
Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife: Not Even Canadians are Safe from the Kochs Anymore!
The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victorious. Unfortunately, when oil billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries (apologies for putting their names on the horse and ass’s asses) fight unwinnable battles, you can be certain the pointless battles will last a lot longer than they should. Putting approximately 100 million dollars of their money into right-wing coffers to keep fellow polluters happy and federal regulations lax, Koch Industries is more than eager to fight a battle that compromises our future and greatly compromises the future of our children. Courtesy of PlanetSave (click pic & story to enlarge) Please also read: "As Tea Party Koch Brothers Earned An Extra $11 Billio
Time to Fight Back: How We Can Take on Those Who Are Sabotaging Our Response to the Climate Crisis
The Nation / By Mark Hertsgaard - Jan 27, 2011 Here's a plan to confront the climate cranks face to face, on camera, and call them to account for the dangers they have set in motion.
Approval of Total Oilsands Mine in Alberta "Deeply Flawed"
Jan 28, 2011 11:48 AM eco justice CALGARY, AB — Environmental groups are condemning...
Why You Can Now Kiss Organic Beef, Dairy and Many Vegetables Goodbye
Alternet - Jan 31 - 2010 - The USDA has ruled that farmers are now free to plant GE alfalfa, and USDA won't even keep track of who plants it where. The implications are huge. ==== Editor's Note: What can we Canadians do, you might ask? OUR LAST HOPE in defending against such Frankenfoods is to make sure OUR PARLIAMENT PASSES the bill, below. Please read, understand and SIGN THE PETITION! THANK YOU! JUST GO TO THIS PAGE & FOLLOW THE PROMPTS! l.p.