May 28, 2012
As long as coal plants are still being built, it doesn’t matter how many wind farms there are, argues author [EPA] San Francisco, CA - Coal is going down in the United States, and that’s good news for the Earth’s climate. The US Energy Information Administration has announced that coal, the dirtiest and most carbon-intensive conventional [...]
Tags: Coal, EIA, Energy Information Administration, Fossil fuel, San Francisco, United States, United States Environmental Protection Agency, US Energy Information Administration
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April 1, 2012
Topics: Heartland Institute ♦ the Heartland Institute Car giant breaks off 20-year relationship with Heartland Institute in ongoing row over its role in questioning global warming General Motors, the world’s largest carmaker, has confirmed that it is pulling funding from the Heartland Institute, an ultra-conservative thinktank known for its scepticism about climate change. The decision by the [...]
Tags: Climate One, Daniel Akerson, General Motors, Heartland Institute, Huffington Post, Pacific Institute, Peter Gleick, San Francisco
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March 5, 2012
Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution February 2nd, 2009 § 26 Comments Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, here discusses influence, controlling the public mind and government. “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind [...]
Tags: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, George Orwell, Huxley, Island, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Ultimate Revolution
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March 3, 2012
Goodbye Overconsumption: Why the Commons Can Save Us From Drowning in Too Much Stuff Story of Stuff creator Annie Leonard talks about why the commons are so integral to our lives. February 23, 2012 | This and many other excellent articles can be found at http://www.alternet.org/ The site covers an extremely diverse range of topics from social, political and environmental matters ikners.com Annie [...]
Tags: Annie Leonard, Global Footprint Network, Jay Walljasper, Ralph Nader, San Francisco, Story of Stuff, Story of Stuff Project, United States
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January 15, 2012
Automated Truth Machines: Bankrupting America Activists with the Rainforest Action Network made 85 Bank of America ATMs in San Francisco “a little more truthful” by attaching new options for transactions. You can choose for your money to go to: coal-fired power plants, foreclosing on homes, bankrolling climate change, or executive bonuses. Related articles How to Turn an [...]
Tags: Automated teller machine, Bank of America, Climate change, environment, Fossil fuel power station, Rainforest Action Network, San Francisco, Ultimo
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December 14, 2011
Shock as Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice Releases Deadly Greenhouse Gas Russian research team astonished after finding ‘fountains’ of methane bubbling to surface by Steve Connor Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean [...]
Tags: American Geophysical Union, Arctic, Arctic ocean, Independent, Methane, Russian Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Semiletov
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November 10, 2011
‘ Opinion polls show many Americans think that the economic system is rigged in favour of the richest [GALLO/GETTY] SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – The bursting to life of the Occupy Wall Street movement is the most hopeful development in American politics since Barack Obama was elected president three years ago this month. Obama’s election has [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Keystone Pipeline, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, San Francisco, United States, United States Department of State, White House
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October 31, 2011
Engelhardt, Wall Street by the Book Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 8:00pm, October 30, 2011. OWS at Valley Forge A (Self-)Graduation Speech for the Occupiers of Zuccotti Park By Tom Engelhardt Once the Arab Spring broke loose, people began asking me why this country was still so quiet. I would always point out that no one ever [...]
Tags: China, Graduation, Neolithic, San Francisco, Tom Engelhardt, United States, Valley Forge, Wall Street, Zuccotti Park
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July 17, 2011
At High Country News, Rachel Waldholz has written a shouldn’t-be-missed piece about environmental justice called Greening a city … and pushing other colors out. An excerpt: The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard covers 500 acres on San Francisco’s southeastern flank, jutting out into the bay like the fletching of a giant arrow.Acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1940, [...]
Tags: environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Golden Gate Park, New York City, San Francisco, Sustainability, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Urban planning
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June 27, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the [...]
Tags: California, Higher education, Mexico, Mexico City, Noam Chomsky, San Francisco, University of California Los Angeles, University of Leeds
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June 21, 2011
The fiscal case for legalising marijuana It’s a no-brainer: ending the ‘war on drugs‘ would create jobs, cut law enforcement costs, raise revenue – and benefit patients Levi smokes cannabis for medicinal purposes at the San Francisco Patients Co-op. Photograph: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Marcy Dolin, of Rohnert Park, California, smokes eight joints (marijuana cigarettes) every [...]
Tags: Cannabis, Drug, Drug Policy Alliance, drug war, Drugs, Health, HIV, Law, Medical cannabis, New York City, New York Times, San Francisco, United State, United States
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June 9, 2011
School surveillance: how big brother spies on pupils Cameras in the toilets; CCTV in the classroom; pupils’ fingerprints kept in a database . . . Can’t happen here? Think again, because the surveillance state is quietly invading our schools Share569 Comments (144) John Harris The Guardian, Thursday 9 June 2011 Article history Pupils are [...]
Tags: Annette Fuentes, Closed-circuit television, Columbine High School massacre, Guardian, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Surveillance, Texas, United States
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May 25, 2011
US embassy cables: Barack Obama may have ‘prejudiced’ Bradley Manning trial Remarks that ‘Manning broke law’ could prejudice army private’s trial over leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks Robert Booth guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 May 2011 19.30 BST Article history Activists hold signs in support of Bradley Manning, who is currently held at a secured facility [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bradley Manning, bradleymanning, Classified information, Iraq, Kansas, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Member of parliament, San Francisco, Uniform Code of Military Justice, United States, WikiLeaks
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May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
Tags: California, Higher education, Mexico, Mexico City, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, San Francisco, United State, University of California Los Angeles, University of Leeds
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April 22, 2011
Obama heckled at fundraiser by Bradley Manning supporters By Sahil Kapur Thursday, April 21st, 2011 — 4:27 pm Share13 957 21Share3Share8Share1 WASHINGTON – Ten supporters of accused whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning paid at least $5,000 to attend a fundraiser with President Barack Obama Thursday and interrupted his speech with a song protesting soldier’s treatment. Obama was [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bradley Manning, bradleymanning, Minority leader of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Pentagon, San Francisco, White House, WikiLeaks
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Chomsky- a brief matter
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
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