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USDA Hits Organics Again, Approves Monsanto’s GMO Sugar Beets

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Jeremy Bloom Feb 7 - 2011 - Planetsave   EDITOR'S NOTE: Once again, Monsanto's puppet, Ag Secretary Vilsack, pisses on the courts and gives the corporation what it wants.  Barack! What were you thinking? l.p.

Shell Cancels Plans to Drill in Arctic!

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Planetsave - Feb.6 '11 Shell announced that they’ve...

An Appeal to Farmers! From Yukon Farmer, Tom Rudge

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Please send around and read his great letter to Members of Parliament.   Date: February 4, 2011 1:46:08 PM GMT-05:00 Subject:  My future and Bill C-474: Your future too? There is a vote in Parliament on genetic engineering this Wednesday February 9 that could help support the future of my farm. Below is the letter I sent to Michael Ignatieff , Wayne Easter and my Member of Parliament, Larry Bagnell.  I've asked them to support Bill C-474 this Wednesday and I hope my MP also speaks up in the debate on February 8. I urge all farmers who have a concern about genetically engineered crops or who already have negative experiences with GE crops   to send a letter to your MP as well.  Now is the time  to tell our politicians how genetic engineering has already cost us or could harm our businesses and our families.  Bill C-474 would support Canada's farmers by requiring that “an analysis of potential harm t

Botswana Refuses Bushmen Access to Water in a Game Preserve - Approves a Massive Diamond Mine There Instead!

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Survival - the Movement for Tribal People Botswana’s government has green-lighted a massive $3bn mine in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve – in the middle of the Kalahari Bushmen’s appeal against the Botswana authorities’ refusal to allow them access to water there. Survival International Activist Boycotting Botswana Diamonds  at De Beers in London Courtesy PlanetSave

Stop the GM Stampede! Tell Our MPs to Approve Bill 474! (Video)

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Mass Tree Deaths Prompt Fears of Amazon 'Climate Tipping Point'

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The Guardian - Feb 4 - 2011 Scientists fear billions of tree deaths caused by 2010 drought could see vast forest turn from carbon sink to carbon source Hard-hit by a months-long drought, a waterway within the  Amazon  Basin trickles to a halt in Brazil Photo by National Geographic

Canada Gets Serious About Fighting Climate Change!

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Wiarton Willie Stephen Harper's new Chief of Climate Science