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ACTIVISM: Muskrat Falls Inuit Arrested Battling Churchill River Hydroelectric Project in Labrador
Environment  (tags: activists, activism, 2013, predictions, environemnt, preservation, climate change, global warming, NATIVE RIGHTS, nature )

Cal
- 36 days ago - indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
A 74-year old Inuit elder has ended a hunger strike and been released from jail after being arrested along with seven others protesting the controversial Muskrat Falls hydroelectric dam on the Churchill River in Labrador.
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ExxonMobil Pipeline Bursts On Blackfeet Reservation in Montana   video
Environment  (tags: oil spill, pipelinebreach, tar sands, Blackfeet Reservation, toxic contamination, poisoned earth, poisoned water, oil, fossil fuels, climate change, ExxonMobil, indigenous rights, First Nations, apitalism, profit vs human survival, people vs corporations )

Brian
- 38 days ago - youtube.com
Is it any surprise that Big Oil and Big Media co-conspire to hide these disasters from the public? This massive oil spill has contaminated the Cutbank River. Exxon has apparently done much less than possible to even begin to clean up the site.
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OP-ED: UK Rewards Polluters and Locks Up People Who Want to Save the Planet
Environment  (tags: climate, climate campaigners, activists, activism, UK, climate change, government, green, pollution, world, protection, conservation, ecosystems, CO2emissions, climate-change )

Cal
- 42 days ago - theecologist.org
Climate campaigners should be given a medal for their outstanding bravery and public service, not prison sentences....
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Burning Up This Planet
Environment  (tags: climate change, industrialization, capitalism, fossil fuels, nuclear, dirty energy, mindless consumerism, globalization, "free" trade, exploitation, workers, resources, wars, imperialism )

Brian
- 47 days ago - socialistworker.org
Global capitalism is the root of the environmental devastation that is happening all around us.
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100% of Electric Capacity Added in U.S. Last Month Was Renewable
Environment  (tags: energy, electric capacity, megawatts, 100%, renewable, clean energy, clean energy vs dirty energy, fossil fuels, oil, coal, natural gas, climate change, environment, destruction, extinction, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission )

Brian
- 82 days ago - grist.org
"That's right: Every single megawatt of new generating capacity added in the U.S. last month was renewable. Every single one."
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The Cost of Climate Change
Environment  (tags: climate change costs, Bernie Sanders, Vermont, Barbara Boxer, California, senators, climate change, comprehensive legislation, carbon emissions, fee, investing in clean energy, solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, offsets, support the carbon tax )

Brian
- 82 days ago - sanders.senate.gov
"Climate change has contributed to a five-fold increase in weather disasters such as extreme heat waves, drought, storms, and flooding in North America since 1980, according to a new study from Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance company."
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Take Action: Tell Idaho Power: Don't Keep Idaho Hooked on Dirty Coal
Environment  (tags: Take Action, Sign the Petition, Idaho Power, Coal, Fossil Fuels, Dirty Energy, Climate Change, Toxins, Pollutants, air, water, environment, Idaho )

Brian
- 84 days ago - act.credoaction.com
"As the damage and threat from climate change continue increasing, Idaho Power wants to make Idaho families foot the bill for $500 million in upgrades to two dirty coal plants in Wyoming and Nevada, keeping Idaho hooked on dirty coal for decades."
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Exxon You Can't Silence Us! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: EXXon, TV ad, climate change, pollution, Big Oil, comcast, Fox News, Houston )

Angelika
- 95 days ago - other98.com
In a brewing scandal that should shock and trouble all of us, Exxon silenced us this week. Join us in telling Exxon: No. Just no. You don't get to take our voice away. You can't silence us.
31 comments
We Don't Need Nuclear Power to Meet Climate Goals and Keep the Lights on
Environment  (tags: Green Party UK, England, Wales, climate change, nuclear power, toxic waste, accidents, expense, dirty energy, zero carbon, renewable energy, clean energy, wind, solar, wave, Natalie Bennett, leader, Green Party, England, Wales, Caroline Lucas, Green MP )

Brian
- 100 days ago - guardian.co.uk
"It would be a folly to think that there is no hope of tackling climate change without nuclear power." Natalie Bennett, Green Party of England and Wales, and Caroline Lucas, Green MP.
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Tell NBC, CBS, and ABC to Give Us the Facts on Climate Change! - ACTION
Environment  (tags: Climate change, media, pollution, ecosystems, destruction, globalwarming, science, research, dishonesty )

Angelika
- 100 days ago - secure3.convio.net
In a year that brought the U.S. record-breaking heat, massive wildfires, a historic drought, and devastating storms like Hurricane Sandy, the nightly news programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC barely talked about what was fueling this extreme weather --
59 comments
Is Obama About to Blow His Climate Credentials?
Environment  (tags: climate change, obama, climate inaction, silence, environment, destruction, planet, corporate profits, capitalism, people vs government, people vs corporations, people power, tar sands, fossil fuels, protest )

Brian
- 112 days ago - commondreams.org
"The US president could be poised to approve the doubling of imports of tar sands oil, one of the filthiest fuels on Earth."
32 comments
The Conundrum of Food Waste
Environment  (tags: environment, humans, Food Waste, United Nations, Save Food program, Agriculture, Business, climate change, Emissions Reduction, fisheries, Fossil Fuels, Living, Food and Agriculture Organization, hunger )

Dee
- 114 days ago - green.blogs.nytimes.com
Each year, 1.3 billion tons of food -- about one third of all the food produced globally -- ends up wasted even as hundreds of millions of people go hungry. This week, two United Nations agencies opened a global campaign to address that conundrum, calling
33 comments
Davos Activists Occupy Shell Station to Protest Arctic Drilling, Warn of Environmental Danger
Environment  (tags: activists, activism, 2013, predictions, environemnt, preservation, climate change, Arctic oil drilling, global warming, nature )

Cal
- 115 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Activists with a big fake polar bear have occupied a Shell service station in the Swiss resort of Davos to protest Royal Dutch Shell PLC's oil drilling in the Arctic.
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Protesters Glue Themselves Together at Westborough Office of Company Building Keystone Pipeline
Environment  (tags: activists, activism, 2013, predictions, environemnt, preservation, climate change, global warming, nature )

Cal
- 133 days ago - boston.com
Eight protesters were arrested at the TransCanada corporate offices here Monday afternoon after they SuperGlued their hands and chained their waists and ankles together to protest the company's Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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