Obama admin says new national forest logging rules stress science and multiple use, “restoration and watershed protection”, The typical and devastating Lies! Neither forests, soil, air or water can be protected with more logging | Washington Post

More logging, of already overcut forests, means more landslides, flooding, death and destruction of the commonwealth and jeopardizes our collective survival and the Beasts of Wall Street know it. War on nature, crimes against humanity, stump graveyards, destroyed paradise, they only count the money they get, not the money or life sustaining commonwealth we lose. Suicidal and Fraudulent accounting and economic analysis. TGH  

Great 90 minute free movie re climate crisis from a future perspective – THE AGE OF STUPID

The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future.

Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking back at footage from 2007 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?  

New 30 min Video Reveals Global Opposition to REDD Forest Carbon Offsets

Global Forest Coalition and Global Justice Ecology Project have produced a new video entitled A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests. The twenty-eight minute video, launched today, documents opposition among Indigenous Peoples, forest-dependent communities and environmental justice groups around the globe, to controversial programs that claim to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) by putting forests into the carbon market.  

Environmental Occupy Fracks Corporate America

But for once, this story isn’t about tragedy. It’s about a resistance movement that has arisen to challenge some of the most powerful corporations in history. Here you will find no handsomely funded national environmental organizations: some of them in fact have had a cozy relationship with the gas industry, embracing the industry’s line that natural gas is a “bridge” to future alternative energies. (In fact, shale gas suppresses the development of renewable energies.)  

Congress May Allow Keystone XL Pipeline to Move Forward

A new development in Congress may allow the Keystone XL Pipeline to move forward after all.  

Money Is All That’s Green in Biodiesel, IPS

Most biodiesel production is making climate change worse not better, studies show. Biodiesel from palm oil plantations may be the world’s dirtiest fuel – far worse than burning diesel made from oil when the entire production life cycle is considered.

Biodiesel made from the many palm oil plantations on Indonesia’s peatlands have a “carbon debt of 200 years”, said Louis Verchot, a research scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research in Bogor, Indonesia.

This means it will take 200 years of continuous biodiesel production from these palm oil plantations to pay off the “carbon debt” that results from land conversion and indirect land use changes.  

Organic News Bytes – Occupy Monsanto, California Labeling, FDA Madness

It is inevitable that one day Monsanto will be held responsible for the enormous human health and environmental damages arising from the so-called “responsible” use of its toxic pesticides, chemicals, and mutant genetically engineered seeds. If the Biotech Bully of St. Louis were to be held liable for its 100-year legacy of corporate criminality – carcinogenic chemical food sweeteners, Agent Orange, dioxin, Bovine Growth Hormone, poisonous herbicides, seed monopolization, and genetically engineered crops, the company’s shareholders would no doubt see the value of their Monsanto stocks plummet to zero.