Is Earth overpopulated?

Most of our serious problems in the world today can be traced back to the impact of human populations on the environment. With each person requiring energy, space and resources to survive, the stress on the planet of the world population, currently estimated to be seven billion, is enormous. Richard Cardullo, a professor of biology […]

Surfers, Fishermen and Radiation in Post Earthquake Japan

Journalist Lisa Katayama  and filmmaker Jason Wishnow are documenting the lives of people dealing with radiation in a Post-Earthquake Japan. In We Are All Radioactive, they are including 50% footage made by themselves in the areas around Fukushima Power Plant that had a meltdown after the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, and 50% footage […]

No-Growth Capitalism’s post-crash manifesto

“It’s about revolution,” warns Sir Richard Branson, founder and chairman of Virgin Group, in his new book “Screw Business as Usual,” a declaration of war against today’s out-of-control capitalism. Branson’s at war, on the attack. His command center is the Carbon War Room where message becomes action, rallying an army of entrepreneurs into what I […]

Chevron executives barred from leaving Brazil over spill

A Brazilian court on Saturday barred 17 executives from Chevron and Transocean from leaving Brazil, pending criminal charges related to a high-profile oil spill last November. A federal judge in Rio de Janeiro state granted a request from prosecutors who are pressing for charges against both firms, a spokesman for prosecutor Eduardo Oliveira said in […]

Fracking: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians

A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking. Fracking is the controversial method of forcing water, gases, and chemicals at tremendous pressure of up to 15,000 pounds per square […]

Fracking Can Cause Air Pollution

Complaints about the potential bad environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing have centered on water contamination. But fracking can also affect the air — particularly during the period when the wells are being built. Researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health looked at air samples collected by the Department of Public Health in Garfield County, […]

A Future Of Pink Slime And Peak Water

Just saying the words, “Pink Slime” gives me the creeps. I’m not pleased to learn that I’ve been dining on this swill for the past sixty years. The US Department of Agriculture has made an interesting response to the public outcry about slime. Starting in September, every school district in the country will have the […]

New Fukushima Cessium-137 Threat

The corporate media is again ignoring a major and potentially catastrophic development at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Kyodo News reported on March 15 that “that the clarity of water inside the spent fuel pool of the No. 4 unit may have deteriorated based on a survey conducted by a camera,” according to Tokyo […]

Jeffrey Sachs: Population Controller?

In a March 1 op-ed in the Washington Post Columbia economist Jeffrey Sachs made his pitch to be the next president of the World Bank promising to “lead the bank into a new era of problem-solving.” John Cavanaugh and Robin Broad have laid out a raft of righteous concerns about Sachs’s candidacy. The “solutions” Sachs […]

Are We Running Out Of Water?

Early in 2001, the Rio Grande River failed to reach the Gulf of Mexico for the first time. With that nefarious event the Rio Grande joined a growing list of once-mighty rivers that are running dry from overuse:  the Colorado River in the U.S., the Yaqui in Mexico, the Indus in Pakistan, the Ganges in Bangladesh, […]

Dick Smith Campaigns Against Population Growth

Dick Smith warns future Australians could face the threat of starvation if the country does not curb its population growth.

Latest US Drought Map

A couple of months back, I promised to start posting the US PDSI drought map once a month or so.  Obviously, that has gotten off to a slow start!  However, here is the map for the week of March 10th.  The good news is that Texas is coming out of the dreadful drought of 2011. […]

World Water Forum: Water crisis is looming

The 6th annual World Water Forum began in Marseilles on Monday with a call to action to curb the looming global water crisis. The 6th annual World Water Forum [5] began in the French port city of Marseilles on Monday with speeches and reports underscoring the need to curb the looming global water crisis, Reuters […]

Desert Liberation Front

http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2012/03/10/desert-liberation-front/ This is a special report about the motherfuckin resistance down under. It was recently revealed that Australian uranium was used to fuel the Fukushima nuclear power plant. But the meltdown in Japan has not stopped the wholesale Australian uranium exports, including selling the mineral to countries like India that have not signed up to […]

Did BP Cause Damage to the Gulf Sea Floor … Which Is Leading to Ever-Larger “Natural” Oil Seeps from the Macondo Reservoir?

In June of 2010, BP officials admitted to damage beneath the seafloor under BP’s Gulf Macondo well. Nmerous scientists have speculated that the blowout and subsequent clumsy attempts by BP to plug the well could have created new seeps, and made pre-existing natural seeps bigger. We have repeatedly noted that the Macondo oil reservoir may […]

Ohio: Hydraulic fracking led to earthquakes

A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, Ohio oil and gas regulators said Friday as they announced a series of tough new regulations for drillers. Among the new regulations: Well operators must submit more comprehensive geological data when requesting a drill site, and the […]

Rapid Population Growth: Its Startling Effects on the World as a Whole

Why would a company giant like Coca-Cola feel compelled to implement new plans focusing on water conservation? They, along with similar corporations, see the imminent dwindling of the Earth’s water supply. The global population, as of October 2011, has reached seven billion people. The recent rapid growth of the population on Earth has resulted in […]

The true cost of oil: Garth Lenz @ TEDxVictoria

What does environmental devastation actually look like? At TEDxVictoria, photographer Garth Lenz shares shocking photos of the Alberta Tar Sands mining project — and the beautiful (and vital) ecosystems under threat. For almost twenty years, Garth’s photography of threatened wilderness regions, devastation, and the impacts on indigenous peoples, has appeared in the world’s leading publications. […]

World Economic Forum: Population, Water, Food, Energy Nexus

The World Economic Forum‘s Network of Global Agenda Councils and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) called on global leaders, particularly organizers of the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Developmentscheduled for June 2012, to integrate population in research, discussion and debate at the intersection of water, food and energy. “We reaffirm the global commitment to poverty […]

Is the US Gulf oil spill issue truly settled?

It was the worst oil spill in US history. Over the course of 87 days, nearly five million barrels of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April 2010. The impact on the environment was devastating – both for the people living along the coastline of the […]

Paul Gilding The Earth is full

Have we used up all our resources? Have we filled up all the livable space on Earth? Paul Gilding suggests we have, and the possibility of devastating consequences, in a talk that’s equal parts terrifying and, oddly, hopeful. Paul is an independent writer, activist, and adviser on a sustainable economy.  

Sizing Up Health Impacts a Year After Fukushima

Health impacts from the radioactive materials released in the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns will probably be too small to be easily measured, according to experts assembled by the Health Physics Society for a panel discussion on Thursday. And the area cordoned off by the Japanese government as uninhabitable is probably far too large, the experts said. […]

Geoengineers Artificially Melt Antarctic to Drill for Oil

It appears controlling the issuance of currency is not enough for our global parasite leaders. Now they are adding chemicals and toxins to the air they can control the weather like gods.

India’s Government Grudgingly Releases Report on Nuclear Power’s Effect on Human Health

India is betting heavily on nuclear power to meet its surging energy needs. While India currently has six nuclear power plants (NPPs) with 20 reactors generating 4,780 megawatts, seven other reactors are under construction and are expected to generate an additional 5,300 megawatts. This current rate of nuclear power generation pales into insignificance with New […]

Revisiting the Limits to Growth Ideas

I see that the ultra free market Club for Growth (CfG) has gotten into the news again today teaming with The Wall Street Journal against a legislative proposal to subsidize the adoption of natural-gas-based transportation vehicles. They say they aren’t against natural gas vehicles but like good conservatives they don’t support the idea of government […]

Time to tackle ‘last taboo’ of contraception and climate

Finding a way to put the environmental impact of population and women’s reproductive health more prominently on the climate change agenda is increasingly urgent, experts said in Washington this week. Suggesting a strong connection between family planning and the environment often risks an explosion in the highly charged political landscape of climate talks, meaning the […]

Natural Gas Our New Savior? Not So Fast . . .

Remember how ethanol was going to save us? It was the perfect solution to not one, but two different problems. The first was energy security: since it’s a type of alcohol distilled from home-grown corn, ethanol would replace the gasoline made from oil imported from Bad People in places like Iran. The second was climate […]

Fossil Fuels vs. Renewables: The Key Argument that Environmentalists are Missing

Which of the following can we count on to act as a “bridge fuel” to a renewable energy economy? Oil Natural Gas Coal None of the above The correct answer is: D. None of the above. Mark Twain is reported to have said: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s […]

Rio + 20 & the UN’s 56 recommendations: Collective failure of humanity

Twenty years after the initial Rio summit, which rightly proclaimed the need for global sustainability, the world will be meeting again to assess the progress made in the past 20 years, as well as to recommend a way forward from our current position. For this occasion, the UN has prepared a report, which details the […]

UN: World cannot sustain increasing population growth

The United Nations has published a grim report warning that time is running out to ensure that there is enough food, water and energy to meet the demands of a rapidly growing population. The UN High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, established in 2010 by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, warns that the lives of up […]

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