Tuesday, November 27, 2018
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Thursday, October 25, 2018
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Monday, October 8, 2018
Air pollution particles found in mothers' placentas
Yet another link between fossil fuels and public health problems.
Air pollution particles found in mothers' placentas
Air pollution particles found in mothers' placentas
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Friday, May 11, 2018
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Harvard Aims to Become Fossil-Fuel-Free by 2050
Harvard Aims to Become Fossil-Fuel-Free by 2050
WUSTL could do this, and better, if we got rid of all the dinosaurs on the board of trustees, in the coal-fired engineering department, and in the administration. Where are good scientists and engineers when you need them?
WUSTL could do this, and better, if we got rid of all the dinosaurs on the board of trustees, in the coal-fired engineering department, and in the administration. Where are good scientists and engineers when you need them?
A Wind Lover's Dream: All 57,636 U.S. Wind Turbines on One Map
A Wind Lover's Dream: All 57,636 U.S. Wind Turbines on One Map
And, a good short video on the battery revolution.
And, a good short video on the battery revolution.
Monday, April 23, 2018
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Monday, April 16, 2018
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Monday, April 9, 2018
Protest a pipeline? You are a felon in Iowa: Opinion | Iowa's Anti-Protest Bill Would Make The Boston Tea Partiers Felons
Opinion | Iowa's Anti-Protest Bill Would Make The Boston Tea Partiers Felons
More bad ideas coming from ALEC, the right-wing, and the fossil fuel industry, when a criminal industry tries to make people who are defending the planet into criminals too:
More bad ideas coming from ALEC, the right-wing, and the fossil fuel industry, when a criminal industry tries to make people who are defending the planet into criminals too:
the Iowa state legislature just passed a bill to make it a felony, punishable by up to 25 years in jail, for any “unauthorized and overt act intended to cause” a substantial and widespread “interruption or impairment of a fundamental service” of gas, oil, petroleum or refined petroleum products.
Friday, April 6, 2018
Monday, April 2, 2018
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Monday, March 26, 2018
The oil-weapons-war cycle and our relation to Saudi Arabia: Here's more on Yemen: Apocalyptic Numbers: The Saudi-Trump War on Yemen
Last week we discussed the Congressional vote on whether we should be helping Saudi Arabia wage war against Yemen. We talked about the famine, similar to what happened in Biafra 50 years ago. Here's U Michigan historian Juan Cole, saying similar things.
Apocalyptic Numbers: The Saudi-Trump War on Yemen (Juan Cole, March 26, 2018)
Apocalyptic Numbers: The Saudi-Trump War on Yemen (Juan Cole, March 26, 2018)
Saudi Arabia and its allies bombed indiscriminately. A third of their targets have been civilian buildings like schools or hospitals or key civilian infrastructure like bridges. Perhaps half the people they’ve killed have been civilian non-combatants, including children.
Also deadly have been the public health effects of the war.
The numbers on the Saudi-led Yemen War are apocalyptic, worse even than Syria.
The total number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in Yemen is 22.2 million – or 76% of the population – including 11.3 million children.
The Saudis and allies have hit Yemen with 15,000 airstrikes.
5,000 children have been killed.
8,700 civilians have been killed
50,000 civilians have been wounded
1.9 million children are not in school, and both sides have recruited children, some as young as ten, as fighters
11.3 million children need humanitarian assistance, with many on the verge of going hungry.
All in all, 22.2 million Yemenis of all ages need humanitarian assistance, 3/4s of the population.
There have been a million cholera cases and there is the threat of another outbreak.
Worth 4:16 of your time to watch this:
Worth 4:16 of your time to watch this:
Militarization and/in Africa: U.S. Strikes Qaeda Target in Southern Libya, Expanding Shadow War There
We discussed mission creep, the blurred lines of justified (and legal) war, and the expansive militarization of Africa being pushed by US through AFRICOM. This article makes many of the same points.
U.S. Strikes Qaeda Target in Southern Libya, Expanding Shadow War There
U.S. Strikes Qaeda Target in Southern Libya, Expanding Shadow War There
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Mass Arrests at Kinder Morgan Pipeline Blockade
Mass Arrests at Kinder Morgan Pipeline Blockade
“Today we’ve remembered and embraced the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, who believed in the power of civil disobedience to shift public opinion. We want to demonstrate that we mean business. We’re going to do whatever it takes, and by any means necessary, and we’ll show up day after day until we win this fight. We encourage our allies, native and non-native alike, to join us in this collective action,” said Clayton Thomas-Muller, member of Treaty 6 Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, as he was being taken away by RCMP.
“Today we’ve remembered and embraced the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, who believed in the power of civil disobedience to shift public opinion. We want to demonstrate that we mean business. We’re going to do whatever it takes, and by any means necessary, and we’ll show up day after day until we win this fight. We encourage our allies, native and non-native alike, to join us in this collective action,” said Clayton Thomas-Muller, member of Treaty 6 Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, as he was being taken away by RCMP.
Monday, March 19, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
War on I.S.? or War on Terror? Or permanent wars that are waged outside of law and public oversight, all in the name of assuring extra-legal "access" to places rich in resources or transit zones? U.S. Kept Silent About Its Role in Another Firefight in Niger
Wars are to be waged with congressional and public oversight. We are a democracy, not a military state (at least in theory). So have our special forces and intelligence agencies turned into a parallel war-making machine, in service of interests that could hardly be said to be those of our people here at home? The gentlemen in the photo below are lying to the US Congress, by not being forthright about their actions in places like Niger.
U.S. Kept Silent About Its Role in Another Firefight in Niger (via Ny Times)
U.S. Kept Silent About Its Role in Another Firefight in Niger (via Ny Times)
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Who’s Greener? California Housing Plan Splits Would-Be Allies
Who’s Greener? California Housing Plan Splits Would-Be Allies
We need more density in urban areas, and more proximity to good public transportation. What is the best way to get there? Here in California, a debate over the tension between democracy and state mandates.
We need more density in urban areas, and more proximity to good public transportation. What is the best way to get there? Here in California, a debate over the tension between democracy and state mandates.
Saudi Crown Prince Likens Iran’s Supreme Leader to Hitler
Saudi Crown Prince Likens Iran’s Supreme Leader to Hitler
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince (has his mother locked up because she’s one of his critics), trying to convince the U.S. citizens that Iran is the bad guy of the region. This plays into the hard-line right wing crowd in the White House, and in Israel, who are pushing to undo the nuclear agreements with Iran. Also stokes the Sunni-Shiite division. All of which means: use less oil. Click picture for full story.
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince (has his mother locked up because she’s one of his critics), trying to convince the U.S. citizens that Iran is the bad guy of the region. This plays into the hard-line right wing crowd in the White House, and in Israel, who are pushing to undo the nuclear agreements with Iran. Also stokes the Sunni-Shiite division. All of which means: use less oil. Click picture for full story.
Burning Coal for Survival in the World’s Coldest Capital
Burning Coal for Survival in the World’s Coldest Capital (New York Times)
Mongolians need renewable energy - good place for solar - but have long been treated as a coal colony, aka sacrifice zone. And poor folks killing themselves by burning coal to stay warm.
Mongolians need renewable energy - good place for solar - but have long been treated as a coal colony, aka sacrifice zone. And poor folks killing themselves by burning coal to stay warm.
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Abandoned open pits of the former Soviet-operated coal mine at Nalaikh. The surrounding hills are green with grass during the warmer months. (New York Times caption)
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