3.09.2012
Piedmont group on hunger strike to support undocumented immigrant
My Fox 8 -
Members from the group El Cambio, which translates to The Change, have been on a hunger strike since Monday night. “I feel so weak.
San Leandro students start hunger strike to protest school budget cuts Inside Bay Area
Inside Bay Area -
By Jason Sweeney Three San Leandro High School students announced Tuesday night that they are holding a hunger strike to protest the fifth year of budget cuts in the school district.
Two-month hunger strike leaves Iranian blogger weak Storyful
Storyful -
The Iranian blogger and government critic Mehdi Khazali entered his 61st day of hunger strike inside the notorious Evin prison in Tehran on Friday.
United Nations Hunger Strike By Tibetan Monks Enters 17th Day Village Voice
Village Voice (blog) -
9 2012 at 6:00 AM Today marks the start of the 17th day of a hunger strike outside the United Nations building in midtown for three Tibetan monks who are protesting China's repression of Tibet, and demanding that the UN recognize their homeland as an ...
Hunger-Striking Students Finally See Some Progress for University of Virginia ... AlterNet
AlterNet -
But they said they found strength and warmth in the growing support for the cause that had led them to launch a hunger strike. "It's hard not to eat," said Marguerite Beattie, a fourth-year psychology major, "but imagining what the workers are going ...
Israel must not bind itself to Netanyahu's vulgar rhetoric on Iran Haaretz
Haaretz -
Anyone who cares about Israel's future could not help but feel a chill upon hearing Benjamin Netanyahu's recent speech at the AIPAC conference - if not because of the gravity of the existential threat it described, then because of its sheer vulgarity ...
Gestapo Terrorize Ghetto: Israeli settlers uproot & take 100 Olive trees owned by Palestinian ... The Muslim News
The Muslim News -
Palestinian farmers, from the southern West Bank villages of Al Khadier and Beit Iskaria, announced that a group of [Israeli] settlers invaded on Thursday morning their lands and uprooted 100 young olive trees and took them away.
Israel's ex-spy chief says more efforts needed before considering attack on Iran Washington Post
Washington Post -
JERUSALEM - The recently retired head of the Mossad intelligence agency has said Israel must consider alternatives to a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, but another expert said Friday an Israeli attack could come within months.
Global warming has chilling effect on forest budgets Real Aspen
Real Aspen -
By Troy Hooper The warming climate is breeding more beetle-ravaged forest and prolonged fire seasons, US Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he fielded questions about the White House's proposed agency ...
3.08.2012
Dr. Jim Hansen, NASA, Comes of Age. Grows Up. GOD BLESS YOUR HEART, JIM.
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/
ThinkProgress -
By Climate Guest Blogger on Mar 8, 2012 at 9:52 am “It would be immoral to leave these young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.” by Dan Miller NASA climate scientist James Hansen gave a talk at the TED conference in Long Beach, ...
US energy subsidies to favour fossil fuels over renewables Environmental Finance
Environmental Finance -
The renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors received most of the US federal government's $24 billion in energy subsidies last year, but fossil fuels will win out this year as several key tax breaks for renewables have expired.
Global Alternative Energy Industry Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Bee -
By Reportlinker The global outlook series on Alternative Energy provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings.
Native Americans Arrested Blockading Keystone XL Pipeline Trucks Environment News Service
Environment News Service -
RAPID CITY, South Dakota, March 7, 2012 (ENS) - Several dozen Native Americans critical of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline Monday blockaded two large trucks in a six-hour standoff at Wanblee, South Dakota.
Texans Fight to Protect Their Land From the Keystone XL Pipeline Huffington Post
Huffington Post -
That's an expression Washington politicians and their Keystone XL tar sands pipeline allies should take to heart. Texas landowners say they are fed up with the exaggerated claims and false arguments that Big Oil boosters are making about pipeline plans ...
Floating Wind Turbines May Be Coming Soon to a Beach Near You cleantechnica
Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PST
Offshore wind turbines are placed to take advantage of strong, steady coastal winds. Their placement is in one way ideal – dependable energy, and lots of it – but it’s also not exactly easy to build a turbine tower in several feet of moving water. Related posts:DOE Cutting battery costs from about $1,000 per kWh in 2009 to $300 by 2015 and to $100 by 2030 tpg org
How The Recovery Act Will Make EVs Affordable For The 99%
The Department of Energy said it was aiming to cut battery costs from about $1,000 per kWh in 2009 to $300 by 2015 and to $100 by 2030. At the time it announced that goal, the only U.S. automaker shipping an electric car was a California startup, Tesla, and its battery cost $36,000 and weighed a whopping 992 pounds. Now, Envia, one of the companies funded, has just cut costs in half of future electric vehicle batteries.
Teen tobacco 'epidemic' shocks surgeon generalUSA TODAY
msnbc.com -
CHICAGO - Smoking among America's youth has reached epidemic proportions, starting them on the path to a lifetime of addiction, the US surgeon general's office said in its first report on youth smoking since 1994.
Off-Shore AC Wind Farm May Blow $1 Billion & 30000 NJ Jobs NJ TODAY
NJ TODAY -
by Scott St. Clair from New Jersey Watchdog TRENTON - Based on cost per kilowatt, the proposed Fishermen's Atlantic City Windfarm could become the world's most expensive offshore wind energy projects, warned a study released by the state's chief ...
Really? Pike Research: North American Wind Power to Double by 2017 EnergyBoom
ZDNet (blog) -
By Heather Clancy | March 8, 2012, 3:48am PST Summary: Pike Research predicts that installed wind energy generation technology will double from 2012 to 2017, with onshore projects capturing most of the investments.
Fix the Inequality Gap: Bloomberg Businessweek Opening Remarks Bloomberg
Bloomberg -
29 the World Bank announced that the proportion of the planet's population living in absolute poverty -- on less than $1.25 a day -- had halved from 1990 to 2010.
Really? How long? Dire Poverty Falls Despite Global Slump, Report Finds New York Times
New York Times -
WASHINGTON - A World Bank report shows a broad reduction in extreme poverty - and indicates that the global recession, contrary to economists' expectations, did not increase poverty in the developing world. The report shows that for the first time ...
Concerted global efforts have led to great strides against extreme poverty – Ban UN News Centre
UN News Centre -
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed that focused financing and partnerships for development have resulted in great strides in the global efforts to combat extreme poverty and facilitate social development, noting that the number of ...
Realy? How For Long? World meets Millennium safe water goals: UN China Daily
BusinessWorld Online Edition -
In a statement released on Wednesday, the UN said a report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that in 2010, 6.1 billion people or 89% of the world's population had sustainable access to safe drinking water ...
How Richard Lindzen Screws Up Climate Science PlanetSave
PlanetSave.com -
(For more on that, check out Joe Romm's piece on the Post's horrid false balance.) I'm not going to get into the media's terrible reporting on climate science today - too much of a downer.
ULTIMATE PROOF: LEFT STANDS FOR NO MAN, NO ONE: Rep. Dennis Kucinich, 'icon' of the left, ousted in primary contest College Times
College Times -
WASHINGTON - Perhaps no other member of Congress has been willing to try to stop a war, impeach a vice president, admit seeing a UFO and run for president twice.
Rising sea levels forcing nation of Kiribati to relocate GlobalPost
GlobalPost -
(GIFF JOHNSON/AFP/Getty Images) The entire nation of Kiribati is threatened by rising sea levels caused by global warming. Kiribati president Anote Tong is now in talks to buy 5000 acres of land from Fiji as one possible solution, the Daily Telegraph ...
Cincinnati Joins Growing List of Cities Supporting Use of Clean Air Act to ... Power Engineering
Power Engineering Magazine -
Cincinnati, Ohio, today joined more than a dozen other US cities in supporting the Environmental Protection Agency and President Barack Obama using the Clean Air Act to clean our air, reduce greenhouse gas pollution and slow global warming.
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