December 21, 20130Comments

The true story of Chevron’s Ecuador disaster

Over three decades of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Chevron is reported to have dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, leaving...

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December 17, 20130Comments

Teenager’s South Pole push to raise awareness of climate change

Parker Liautaud is a 19-year-old polar explorer and climate change campaigner, and the Leader of the Willis Resilience Expedition. According to the Willis Resilience website...

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Asia-Pacific

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December 16, 20130Comments

Miranda and the Tasmanian forest crusade

It is now two years since Miranda Gibson climbed Observer Tree and began her 14 month long tree sit. Now she is back on the ground, working to protect Tasmania’s forests. The...

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December 15, 20130Comments

Canada’s First Nations ‘threaten’ govt’s $600 billion fossil fuel binge

In an important story published in Oil Price news, December 12, the question is raised as to whether Canada’s First Nations will scupper plans by the Conservative Prime...

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December 13, 20130Comments

Farmer Meghan Hammond was bullied by TransCanada – but is fighting back

Meghan Hammond is one young farmer who has been bullied by oil giant TransCanada, seeking to push through the Keystone XL pipeline. But she and other local farmers and...

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December 13, 20130Comments

‘Top Global Thinkers’ – Idle No More founders

Last winter, what started as a flurry of emails among four Saskatchewan women grew into a robust grassroots movement, according to Foreign Policy magazine. The women—Jessica...

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December 13, 20130Comments

The education of Bill Mckibben

In “The Education of Bill McKibben: How the Unlikely Activist Learned to Break the Rules” Madeline Ostrander takes a look at arguably America’s most high...

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December 13, 20130Comments

How can a 13-year-old help save the planet?

The future of our planet lies in the hands of our children and when a 13-year-old boy, Aidan Dwyer, uncovers the mystery of how trees get enough of sunlight in a crowded...

December 7, 20130Comments

Geeks measure Fukushima’s impact

Hundreds of ordinary people are contributing to a crowd-sourced effort to measure Fukushima’s impact, according to Erika Lundahl, writing in Yes! Magazine. In a story...

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December 7, 20130Comments

Victory in Canadian anti-fracking standoff – for now

APTN is reporting that a Houston-based energy company that has faced ferocious resistance from a Mi’kmaq-led coalition is ending its shale gas exploration work for the year....

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December 6, 20130Comments

‘We have to consume less’ – Scientists

It is pretty obvious really but there is a serious aversion to the idea of consuming less as one way to deal with the climate crisis we are facing. In an interview Democracy...

December 4, 20130Comments

The Fukushima video everybody needs to watch

Fears are growing over the Fukushima nuclear disaster clean-up operation and how the operation could go horribly wrong, affecting Japan and large areas of the Northern...

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