Environment
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Red -- I'll BUY It! (Deborah Goodwin)
Sept. 16, 2011 (ShapeShiftas.com) -- The first pieces of furniture my husband and I bought together were a red leather couch and loveseat, seven years after we got married. We were expecting our ...
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Pillow Talking about Irene (Deborah Goodwin)
Sept. 14, 2011 (ShapeShiftas.com) -- On the Saturday of Irene, I posted a picture of this pillow, called The Eye of the Hurricane, on the ShapeShiftas' Facebook page, with the caption, "This one's ...
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Record Arctic Ice Melt Threatens Global Security (Stephen Leahy)
This data visualisation from the Aqua satellite show the maximum sea ice extent for 2008-09. Credit:NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio Sept. 15, 2011 (Inter Press Service) -- All the ...
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Can We Stop the Next Fukushima Times 10,000? (Harvey Wasserman)
Sept. 13, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- The horrible news from Japan continues to be ignored by the western corporate media. Fukushima's radioactive fallout continues to spread throughout the ...
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Greetings From The (Former?) Stony Brook Islands -- Part I (Francis Goodwin)
Francis M. Goodwin -- World News Trust Sept. 5, 2011 -- Greetings from the (former?) Stony Brook Islands of Stockbridge, Vermont. It's been a week since Hurricane Irene swept up the East Coast of ...
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ADVISORY: World News Trust Headquarters Closed Indefinitely By Severe Floods
Aug. 29, 2011 (World News Trust) -- The World News Trust headquarters in Stockbridge, Vt., has been closed indifinitely due to a power outages and severe flooding that has washed away numerous ...
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Sun Unleashes X6.9 Class Flare (NASA)
An x-class flare began at 3:48 AM EDT on August 9, 2011 and peaked at 4:05 AM. The flare burst from sun spot region AR11263, before it rotated out of view. The image here was captured by NASA's ...
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Nature Bats Last: Notes on Revolution and Resistance, Revelation and Redemption (Robert Jensen)
(An edited version of this talk was presented to the Veterans for Peace conference in Portland, OR, on August 4, 2011.) Aug. 8, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- My title is ambitious and ambiguous: ...
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New Pipeline to Challenge Obama's Promises (Bill McKibben)
Obama finally has the opportunity to make good on his environmental promises, but will he? Aug. 4, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- It took some serious digging in the sock drawer, but eventually I found ...
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Earth's Systems In Rapid Decline (Stephen Leahy)
Aug. 4, 2011 (Al-Jazeera-English) -- Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, ...
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Record High Radiation at Crippled Japan Nuke Plant (Agence France-Presse)
Aug. 1, 2011 -- TOKYO (Agence France-Presse) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said Monday it had monitored record high radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the March ...
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