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August 27, 2006

Ocean Currents, Dead Zones, and Global Warming

By:Rowan
For the fifth year in a row, a dead zone has formed off the Oregon Coast. First documented in 2002, the dead zone has formed for each of the last five years - though in two of those years the...
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August 24, 2006

Peak Moment Television

By:Rowan
I had the great experience of being interviewed by the Yuba Gals - producers of Peak Moment Television. Peak Moment is a project of the for Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy (APPLE) out of Nevada City, California. They are...
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A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody - Ruthless Exploiters, Inc.

By:Rowan
By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "It is like paradise and hell. They throw our petitions in the dustbin. They have everything. We have nothing... If we protest, they send soldiers. They sign agreements with us and then ignore...
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August 23, 2006

Lebanon Oil Spill Hits Seabed

By:Rowan
Greenpeace has filmed up to 10cm of oil on the seabed off of Lebanon. The spill is from an oil storage area bombed by Israel. Cleanup of the spill has not progressed at all because Israel will not allow flights...
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August 17, 2006

Peak Oil and Petro Terrorism

By:Rowan
On February 24, 2006, CNN aired a clip called Oil and Terror. In it the talk about the attempted attack on a Saudi refinery, and about the ongoing conflict in Nigeria (with Shell). The commentator (Ali Velshi) notes that oil...
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August 14, 2006

Escaped Transgenic Grass In Oregon

By:Rowan
According to a report in Nature, transgenic grass produced by The Scotts Company has escaped its test plot, and been found almost two miles away. The grass is resistant to Roundup and other herbicides. The bioengineered grass could pose a...
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August 11, 2006

Greenland Ice sheet Melt Accelerating

By:Rowan
According to a report in the August 11, 2006 BBC, the Greenland ice sheet is "speeding up." Using a calculation that measures earth's gravity and mass, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have determined that the ice sheet...
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August 6, 2006

There Seems To Be A Lot Of Oil Spills

By:Rowan
Is it just me, or does there seem to have been an awful lot of oil spills and pipeline leaks recently? Cebu City - Phillipines 8/06 Lebanon 7/06 Cumberland County - New Jersey 8/06 Venezuela 8/06 Nigeria 7/06 Russia 7/06...
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August 3, 2006

Global Warming Overstated?

By:Rowan
An interesting UK media analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has concluded that some British reporting on climate change amounts to "climate porn." "Apocalyptic visions of climate change used by newspapers, environmental groups and the UK government...
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August 1, 2006

Along with Peak Oil, Peak Grain and Peak Water the world enters crisis overload

By:Mathew
By: Mathew Maavak A deadly combination of heat and drought is slowly wreaking a trail of devastation across much of the globe, and the full extend of this scourge will only be felt as winter nears....
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