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Humans Must Change Behaviour to Save Bees, Vital for Food Production – UN Report
Honey bee hive. l.p. photo 10 March 2011 – The potentially disastrous decline in bees, a vital pollinating element in food production for the growing global population, is likely to continue unless humans profoundly change their ways, from the use of insecticides to air pollution, according to a United Nations report released today.
More Insights Into Tar Sands Attitudes
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Please read an updated vesion of my earlier article, "How Ethical Are Ethical Funds," here, on the online magazine, The Dominion. OBSERVATION: If anything, this latest version affords an insight into how some can rationalize that how they invest is "really OK," because they can somehow make change from within - sort of like defending the indefensible. l.p.
Chevron Wins Halt to $18 Billion Judgment in Ecuador Pollution Case
NEW YORK, New York, March 7, 2011 (Environment News Service) Crude oil in a Chevron oil waste pit in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. (Rainforest Action Network photo) In a New York courtroom today, oil giant Chevron Corp. won a halt to enforcement of an $18 billion judgment for oil pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon imposed by a court in Ecuador. Full story here. PUBLISHER'S COMMENT: To the US judge who made this ruling - "do da word 'sovereignty' ring a bell to ya?" l.p.