Farming First: A Recipe to Feed a Crowded World
Is subsistence farming the way to the future?
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The U.N. Says 1 Million Species Could Disappear. Pacific islands Have a Solution
A proposal to stem species loss.
Read more...Ilargi: Renewables Are Dead
How Germany’s failure to meet renewable energy targets demonstrates that renewables won’t be able to meet current and expected production needs.
Read more...EPA Says Glyphosate Is Safe, But Lawsuits Loom and Bayer’s Woes Mount
Despite the EPA’s recent insistence glyphosate is “safe”, Bayer faces a many problems related to Roundup legal risk.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Tesla Discloses Record Pollution Credits for Q1: Without Them, it Would Have Lost $918 Million and Bled $1.14 Billion in Cash
Tesla’s 10-Q filing reveals that without taxpayer-funded pollution credits the company gets from the government and sells to other companies, its loss as automaker and solar-panel company would have been $918 million and its negative cash flow wouldn’t have been a cash drain of $919 million but a cash sinkhole of $1.14 billion
Read more...Apple to California Legislators: Consumers Will Hurt Themselves if Provided a Right to Repair
Apple and tech lobbyists delay a California bill to provide a statewide right to repair until 2020, claiming consumers will hurt themselves if the state capitulates on this issue. They also successfully deploy the hackers in the basement boogeyman.
Read more...Plastic Watch: Debunking the Technofix Fairy, Biodegradable Bags Don’t Degrade
‘Biodegradable ‘ plastic bags were still intact and capable of carrying shopping three years after being exposed to the natural environment: some arguments and evidence not to rely on the technofix fairy to solve the plastics crisis.
Read more...The Tragedy of the Electric Commons: How New York’s Renewable Energy Policy Failed, and What We Can Do Now
Why renewable energy has gone nowhere in New York state….the fear that it would produce a death spiral for utilities.
Read more...Using Maps as a Weapon to Resist Extractive Industries on Indigenous Territories
MappingBack can support Indigenous perspectives on territories and resources through spatial representations
Read more...NYC vs Another Fracked Gas Pipeline: Notes From Activists On The Ground
A grass roots report on the fight against fracked gas.
Read more...Happy Earth Day 2019
Today is Earth Day, the theme: Protect Our Species. Much has changed since the first Earth Day: April 22, 1970. Individual action alone won’t save the planet, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing one can do.
Read more...New York City’s Newly Passed Green New Deal, Explained
NYC last week passed a modest Green New Deal. This initiative falls far, far short of where climate change policy needs to go, but is certainly an improvement on the fossil fuel-friendly agenda of the Trump administration (and its predecessors).
Read more...Judge Brian Morris Stymies New Trump Coal Sales on Federal Lands
US federal district judge Brian Morris dealt a serious setback to the Trump administration’s agenda of resuming coal mining on federal lands.
Read more...Bill Black: Faked Emissions May Send Volkswagen CEO to Prison
In this Real News Network interview, Bill Black examines the VW emissions scandal and discusses how corruption has become endemic in corporate Germany, and why the SEC and DoJ are targeting VW.
Read more...Chevron and Exxon Say They Can Turn Around the Failed Finances of Fracking Industry
The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on fracking follies.
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