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09.01.10 Great Article on How a Progressive Economic Populist Message is Needed ASAP

08.31.10 Lester Brown -- Geothermal: Getting Energy from the Earth

08.30.10 Oil & Gas - BLM

08.30.10 McKenzie Pass Highway re-opens after forest fire forces closure

08.29.10 From outer space, a new dilemma for old-growth forests

08.28.10 Pakistan: A Land Left to Drown by the ‘Timber Mafia’, Just like everywhere else, UK

08.27.10 Road building, blow outs at Olympic National Forest - Legacy program: Forest road pollution sources minimized

08.26.10 Industry gives money to "green" group to promote 'innovative" & sustainable logging for biomass energy

08.25.10 "Whacking the Middle Class", Wall Street & Their Puppet Govt are Destroying America. Dean Baker

08.23.10 SPI closing a biomass plant in California, Quincy Library Bill failed to deliver enough trees

08.22.10 We're far gone into the ecological red disaster area, perhaps unrecoverable, UK

08.21.10 Does Barack Obama even want to be re-elected in 2012? UK

08.20.10 Wall Street's Cruel Fraud that doesn't help jobless homeowners in Foreclosure

08.19.10 BLM begins "rapid assessments" of Western lands to aid energy development

08.18.10 The Fix Was In - All Rational Citizens' Dissent & Opposition Ignored. Rothschild, WI biomess update

08.17.10 How Germany is Doing So Much Better Than We Are. Why You'd Probably Be Healthier and Wealthier in Germany

08.16.10 Federal Appeals Court: Logging Road = Pollution ruling

08.15.10 George Monbiot on Illusory Thinking by Gang Green's Well-Meaning but Very Much Un-Self-Aware Academics, UK

08.14.10 Moral & Legal Insanity? 9th Circuit Appeals Court allows logging of native Oregon old growth

08.13.10 Can We Calculate the True Cost of Our Dependence on Oil, or anything else?

08.12.10 Nat Geographic's best photos of 09

08.11.10 Clearcutting the streams in Johnson County

08.10.10 Zen and the art of saving the planet

08.09.10 The faith that underpins science

08.08.10 Steven Segal Takes on BP's Predatory Capitalism, Youtube from 1994 movie

08.07.10 Alberta Oil sands emissions to nearly triple by 2020, BC

08.05.10 Mike Roselle, Fighting for Justice in Appalachia, the Battle for Coal River Mountain

08.04.10 McKibben, A Wilted Senate on a Heating Planet, Tom Dispatch

08.03.10 Deadline near in push to save chunk of Whidbey Island forest, SeaTimes

08.02.10 UN to help build 20 giant dirty coal-fired power plants, UK

08.01.10 Reforestation and real forests sequester more carbon

07.30.10 EARTH MEANDERS: The Rights of Earth

07.27.10 WENDELL BERRY: What Else to save nature, humanity and all life from corporate economies of destruction?

07.26.10 Burning Our Forests for Fuel will Doom Our Planet

07.25.10 Portraits of Courage: Americans Who Tell the Truth, YES mag

07.23.10 Fallacy of Carbon Credits Trading, 'could have bankrupted' nation

07.21.10 Global forest heights mapped in detail by NASA

07.20.10 Much of Corporate America, Wall Street, Big Oil, Timber, Mining Are All Making War on the Planet

07.19.10 Why humans are here on Earth

07.18.10 Carbon Trading a front for Money Laundering, AFP

07.17.10 The hidden world, US' Police State growing beyond control

07.16.10 Big Beautiful Photos Of Canada's Lucrative And Destructive Oil Tar Sands

07.15.10 Teaching 'stuff' about ecology & consequences, Annie Leonard, LATimes

07.15.10 'Soul Of A Citizen': AMEN! Village Politics (local) - Rebuilding Engaged Communities

07.14.10 MUST SEE 9 min Compelling anti-greenwash & anti-Big Green youtube film

07.13.10 The Case for a New WPA, Yes mag

07.12.10 No industry enjoys the array of tax breaks and subsidies that the oil and gas industry does, NYT editorial

07.11.10 How a Tiny Town Sent an International Water Giant Packing

07.10.10 Is America's Favorite Renewable Energy Source A Disaster? - TNR

07.09.10 Great interview with Jeff St. Clair on BP, Pacifica Radio

07.08.10 Minnesota's huge forest conservation deal closes today

07.07.10 'Climategate' review clears scientists of dishonesty over data, UK

07.06.10 Butterflies are early warning system for climate change, Canada

07.05.10 NATURE Is the Vital Antidote to Our Commodity Culture, Hedges, TruthDig

07.04.10 As Oil Industry Fights Taxes, Like Big Timber, It Reaps Billions From Subsidies, NYTimes

07.03.10 Calif logging firm snags $300,000 federal grant

07.02.10 Feingold: 'Standing Up to the Unholy Alliance Between Washington and Wall Street'

07.01.10 Gang Green Collaboration (for biomass & "thinning") brings New life for Tuolumne County sawmill

06.30.10 Oil Sands Industry lobbyists bribe's Washington, G20 to gut already weak climate bill, BC

06.29.10 Where Wild Salmon Really Comes From, The Atlantic

06.28.10 Is biomass really a "green" energy source?, CSM

06.27.10 Tuna’s End (similar to forests, topsoil, clean air & water, life), NYTimes

06.26.10 Criminal Oil "Spill" Leads To Unexpected Environmental Alliances: 'Jesus Will Rip Your Head Off'

06.25.10 Steven Seagal Tells Off Wall Street & British Petroleum After Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

06.24.10 World leaders embracing austerity are playing with fire, Toronto

06.23.10 TOXIC SPRAY OR NOT - Neighbors ask Weyerhaeuser to hand weed a clear-cut, Register Guard

06.22.10 Why Nothing Will change. Capito, Cash and Capitulation, Mokhiber

06.21.10 Wilderness Committee Releases Anti-Incineration Video - Preview

06.20.10 Education Historian Ravitch to Obama: 'Change course before it is too late' WaPost

06.19.10 The corporate-owned government doesn't care - A oil disaster map

06.18.10 Green group asserts biomass-fired power plants will destroy forests, Stuart Pimm

06.17.10 A Real Forester says: Wyden’s forest logging act fills industry pockets, not forests

06.15.10 U.S. and Canada Destroyed More Forest Than Brazil Between 2000-2005

06.14.10 Rebuttal to Pro-biomass op-ed from California by Ara Marderosian, SacBee

06.13.10 New book celebrates life in the Tongass National Forest

06.12.10 Taking over the banks' empty foreclosures,

06.11.10 Mass. study: Wood power worse polluter than coal, SPI

06.10.10 Backcountry walk-in protests logging

06.09.10 Sealaska Tongass Ripoff: map of habitat conservation areas the forest service has set aside

06.08.10 Forest bill draft cuts wilderness logging mandate, but Tester won't support

06.07.10 Food, "Seed Corn" & Survival, It's All About the Process, WorldWatch Inst

06.06.10 The Decline of Big Green, Part One. Shaky Foundations: Toxic Sources, Tainted Money

06.05.10 Tree muggers

06.04.10 U.S. 'secret war' expands globally as Special Operations forces take larger role

06.03.10 The Really Creepy People Behind the Libertarian-Inspired Billionaire Sea Castles

06.02.10 Biomass a threat to forests. life, survivial

06.01.10 Loma Fire ignited from state-run brush-thinning project

05.29.10 Organic Bytes: Frankenfoods & Sterility, Monsanto & the Supreme Court

05.28.10 Gang Green feeling the heat from BP oil spill

05.27.10 Trees make rain; rain makes trees, NYTimes

05.26.10 "24" Just part of the manipulation of the American Conciousness, Barry Eisler

05.24.10 All of Us Use Drugs, But Only Some of Us Go to Jail

05.23.10 Wall Street Worsening Terminal Cancer:, The White House, Big Oil, and the

05.21.10 The real Climategate, polluted by profit, Sierra Club & other Gang

05.20.10 As usual, nonprofit "conservation" group, quoted by NY Times, is (oil) industry front group

05.19.10 It used to be the Red Scare; now it's the Green Scare. CLDC on esistance, dissent and government repression

05.18.10 Democrats: the party of eternal retreat, or, just Wall Street's "other" party?

05.17.10 Major Forestry Companies And their lapdog GangGreen Environmental Organizations To Announce Agreement

05.17.10 MEDIA ADVISORY: Major Forestry Companies And their lapdog GangGreen Environmental Organizations To Announce Agreement

05.16.10 Street's Major Loophole In Senate Financial Reform Bill, Makes Any Derivatives Fix Illusory

05.14.10 Guess how much oil is really spewing into the Gulf of Mexico Waters - it sure ain't 5000 barrels a day, SURPRISED?

05.12.10 An Updated List of Goldman Sachs Ties to the Obama Government Including Elena Kagan

05.11.10 Round I to the Banks, More & worse to Come, Weissman

05.10.10 Organic Bytes: Monsanto's Superweeds, GMO Labeling, & Raw Milk Battle

05.09.10 Corrupt Practices Accelerating the Decline of American Journalism

05.08.10 Leading scientists condemn 'political assaults' on climate researchers, UK

05.07.10 Study indicates U.S. can phase out coal's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030

05.06.10 "Hey Dad, Why Does This Country Protect Crooked Billionaires, and Not Honest Teachers?"

05.05.10 RReich: What BP's Oil Disaster and Goldman Sachs' Rip-off Schemes Have in Common

05.04.10 Salon - Ex Fish and Game officials warn of Sealaska bill destructive corruption

05.03.10 OPINION: A New Collaboration Library Bill - Sealaska Background

04.30.10 Forget About Goldman Sachs, Our Entire Economy Is Built On Fraud

04.29.10 Wall Street, corporate "experts" call for hike in global water price, UK

04.28.10 The Food Nightmare Beneath Our Feet: We're Running Out of Soil, Ode

04.27.10 Wall Street/Obama's Reprieve for their Crooked Banks, Foreclosure for Honest but increasingly unemployed Homeowners

04.26.10 Huge new coal plant being built in GA, despite plans for biomass

04.22.10 Five Ways You Can Help Save Life on Earth?, Lohan

04.21.10 Sharing stuff is the way to fend off environmental catastrophe

04.20.10 Wuerthner: Why state agencies can't manage predators

04.19.10 Privatized BC Power Means Huge Profit Margin for Multinational Corp

04.18.10 Gore takes cash for water campaign from chemical firm that's a major polluter, Typical

04.17.10 BETRAYED: How the nation's biggest banks are Looting Our Commonwealth, Taibbi

04.16.10 We all lose in the war against nature, Univ of Toronto

04.15.10 Beyond green growth: why we need a world without economic growth, Guardian (UK)

04.14.10 No Car, No Problem: The Benefits of Car-Free Living, YES! Magazine

04.13.10 MAINSTREAM (?) GREENS CAVE IN ON CLIMATE: Dangerously Allow Industry to Set Agenda

04.12.10 Betrayed. Sealaska is demanding another 90,000 acres of the Tongass NF

04.11.10 See How Your Taxes are actually spent

04.10.10 Message to Bolivia: Nature’s Rights Are Also Human Rights

04.04.10 Modern capitalism is at a moral dead end. And Wall Street's crooks and bosses are to blame, UK

04.02.10 The Wall Street Crooks Who Got It all Wrong Are NOW Obama's Economic Brain Trust

04.01.10 Big Government, Big Deficits are Fine If They Serve Wall Street's Very Rich, Anathema for Anything Else

03.30.10 Timber Industry's Devastating Legacy, Hoonah, AK, YouTube

03.29.10 PBS "Now" segment featuring Hydro-Fracking documentary & interview with Gasland's director, Josh Fox

03.28.10 Bill Moyers: Selling Out Honest Reform

03.27.10 Derailing any & all Real Help For Citizens Broken by Wall Street Bosses, Bob Herbert

03.26.10 Why the Good Citizens and Commonwealth Forfeit & Lose to Wall Street & their Corporate Tyranny, for 50 years now, John Atcheson

03.25.10 Contemptible & Corrupt?: "Is burning wood the green way to healthier state forests?"

03.22.10 Biomass subsidies threaten Oregon wood plants' supplies, Oregonian

03.21.10 Illinois Aims to Make Tire Burning "Renewable"

03.20.10 As Glaciers Melt, Bolivia Fights for the Good Life, Yes

03.19.10 The Consequences of Living in an Economic Free-For-All

03.18.10 Upcoming Collaboration Efforts on New Forest Service National Forest Planning Rule

03.17.10 Fwd: Today's press release from Sen Tester's office re his wilderness logging bill

03.16.10 The Good the Bad and the Ugly in the Dodd Bill

03.15.10 Developer lays claim to more than gold in Oregon wilderness, Oregonian

03.12.10 A Deforestation-Based Diet: Seven Foods That Are Destroying the World's Forests

03.11.10 Senate passes another corrupt energy bill?, $140B of gifts for big oil, tax breaks and incentives they don't need

03.10.10 IF you're still keeping your money in a big bank, What the hell is WRONG with you? Pizzo

03.10.10 An Environmental Oxymoron - The Dirty Truth Behind Clean Coal, Josh Frank

03.09.10 Poor suffer the most in deficit wars caused by Wall Street "bailouts"

03.08.10 Logging beetle-killed forests challenged, Denver Post

03.07.10 Climate: Monbiot on extreme difficulty of getting people to believe what they don't want to believe

03.06.10 Wall Street Took Your House and Your Retirement, Now They're After Your Social Security

03.05.10 GangGreen is The Wrong Kind of Green, Johann Hari, Nation

03.04.10 A clear-cut controversy. Some logging halted after outcry over Mass. forestry mistakes

03.03.10 Resistance Resisters - It's time to lead, follow, or get out of the way, Derrick Jensen, Orion

03.02.10 The Earth has its own set of rules, LATimes

03.01.10 Madison Ave Education, Doonesbury's

02.28.10 EPA Drastically Underestimates Coal Waste Pollution, Josh Frank

02.27.10 How we've been tricked into resenting the poor and working class, and not Wall Street

02.26.10 Chart of WOOD FUELED BIOMASS BURNING CARBON EMISSIONS, MA Forest Watch

02.25.10 Burning forest biomass a false fix (editorial), UOregon

02.24.10 7 Billion Humans Taxing All of Earth's Life Support Systems, NS

02.23.10 The Split in Sierra Club over natural gas development on NPR today's Morning Edition

02.22.10 Support Bernie Sanders call for 10 million Rooftop Solar Energy units, CBD

02.21.10 The Rainforest Movement Is Dead. Long Live the Old Forest Revolution

02.20.10 Supply of wood to fuel biomass plant(s) still under scrutiny, It isn't there, especially in the long term, FL

02.20.10 New book, Green Scare, by Joshua Frank & Jeffrey St Clair, an excerpt about Brianna Waters

02.19.10 Wuerthner re: Obama's New National Monuments

02.18.10 IRS Suicide Pilot Is Not a “Terrorist,” But Environmental Activists Are?, Green Is The New Red

02.17.10 Forest Biomass: Forest Use or Forest Abuse? Schlossberg

02.16.10 Chris Hedges on Wall Street's Inverted Totalitarianism - superb!

02.15.10 Is Wall Street's "slave" leading Wall Street's "green" & political lapdogs? Baker, Guardian (UK)

02.14.10 Retired Deputy Regional Forester Bill Worf on Tester's Wilderness Logging Bill, CounterPunch

02.13.10 Clear forests for sprawl, turn up heat for your city? Biomass & Climate Crisis

02.12.10 OpEd needs support: "Tester logging bill proposes a calamitous precedent"

02.11.10 Climate Scientists Losing the PR War to Big Oil & Wall Street, BBC

02.10.10 Oregon State finalizes two-year logging of the remaining uncut native trees in the Elliott State forest

02.09.10 Our Democracy No Longer Works and the Problem Is Wall Street & Its Political Puppets

02.08.10 Wuerthner: Greater Caution Needed Before Supporting Thinning, Biomass Projects

02.07.10 The US Government has Lost its Reason for Being (or has it?)?

02.06.10 Blum's Anti-Empire Report

02.05.10 Stop Wall Street's private mining firms (and all others) exploiting poor states, UK

02.04.10 More on the Oregon "Green" tax-breaks swindle, Oregonian

02.03.10 Forest wars finally end?BEWARE: Ag secretary's visit showcases alliance between environmentalists, timber companies

02.02.10 Help Stop Congressional Tax Credits for Wall Street's Destructive Forest Biomass Energy: Take Action Now

02.01.10 The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News, Truthdig

01.31.10 Is There an Ecological Unconscious? Great NYT piece on

01.30.10 We need more, and bigger, gardens, not McMansions: Australia

01.29.10 Massachusetts is planning major increase in logging for biomass, YOUR VOICE IS NEEDED!

01.28.10 This can’t go on: Logging more acreage for less timber, more damage, says forester

01.27.10 Arianna Huffington: Obama's State of the Focus Groups Speech

01.26.10 Economic growth 'cannot continue', BBC

01.25.10 Why are BC's Collapsed Salmon Runs Getting Sustainability Certificate?

01.24.10 Cable TV vs. America

01.22.10 Oregon state forests and the native fish that depend on them need your help

01.22.10 Ashland Oregon watershed logging plan ignores collaboration deal

01.21.10 AMERICA BETRAYED. News Alert. Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits, NYTimes

01.21.10 14th massive wood-fuel plant to be built in SE US, in Waycross, GA

01.20.10 Mt. Rainier's retreating glaciers are making a mess

01.20.10 Thirst for Oil Imperils South America's Most Biodiverse Wilderness

01.18.10 Avatar Half-Tells a Story We Would All Prefer to Forget, Monbiot, UK

01.17.10 Amid state's push for solar power, water-supply worries arise, AZ

01.16.10 Decent article on VT research regarding logging and carbon storage

01.15.10 Photos of Whole Tree biomass logging in Nova Scotia

01.14.10 An honest elected official sues to stop

01.12.10 In Ecuador Trees Now Have Rights

01.11.10 Delaware environmental laws under attack by

01.10.10 Alaskans need to recognize the costs of Tongass NF biomass energy, Juneau

01.09.10 The unintended consequences of burning trees for electricity biomass subsidy program, WaPo

01.08.10 Our Stolen Future: A forestry model for the future? Ignoring Science, Collaborative Logging

01.07.10 Science article opposing Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining's dishonest destruction

01.06.10 Logging, Roads and Lightning-caused forest fires, Science report

01.05.10 Climate Change Scepticism Will Increase Hardship for World's Poor: IPCC Chief

01.04.10 Tax Trash Before It Becomes Trash, BC

01.03.10 The Origins of the Wise Use Movement, Disquiet on the Western Front, StClair

01.02.10 The Real Top Ten Stories of the Past Decade?

01.01.10 The extremely wealthy Bohemian Club wins redwood-logging permit, SF Chronicle

12.31.09 great Thom Hartmann Interview re the real problems & solutions

12.30.09 Are Environmentalists an Endangered Species?

12.29.09 The year in Coal & Mountaintop Removal Destruction

12.28.09 Jesus Hated War -- Why Do

12.28.09 economists claim that nature and the planet are worth nothing, the one value we all know it's not, Guardian

12.27.09 Alaska's ( & US') war on science needs to end

12.26.09 When the land's worth more than logging the trees, Oregonian

12.25.09 Celebrities oppose US government (BLM) plan to move 25,000 wild horses east, UK

12.24.09 Stop Wall Street’s Economic Rampage, War on Nature, Workers & Citizens

12.24.09 There's a good reason why climate naysayers are failing, UK

12.23.09 The Economist: Why is the modern view of progress so impoverished?

12.22.09 Going Native: “Avatar” ( Predatory Capitalism vs Trees of Life & Wonder) and “Sherlock Holmes.” per New Yorker

12.22.09 Are Americans a Broken People? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression

12.21.09 Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers and Robert Kuttner: Why Can't (or Won't) Democrats Do Anything Right?

12.20.09 Biases in the Location of Protected Areas

12.19.09 NYT op-ed on why biomass and carbon offsets won't work

12.18.09 Tester says it will be hard to stop collaborators' logging deal, MT

12.18.09 8 Things We Love That Climate Change Will Force Us to Kiss Good-Bye?

12.18.09 Burning Forest & Trees Biomass for Electricity is Not Renewable Energy, HuffPo

12.17.09 Dr. Stuart Pimm: Wood fueled power plants will destroy forests..

12.16.09 Gang Green's Latest Sellout & Treason, Sen Wyden's Biomass & Logging

12.15.09 Great Climate Cartoon for Copenhagen discussion (& biomass)

12.14.09 Sen. Tester's Plan for Logging Wilderness Roils Big Sky Country, NYTimes

12.14.09 High-profile activist's arrest fuels fears of police crackdown in Copenhagen

12.13.09 Under the icy north lurks a ‘carbon bomb’

12.12.09 Oregon Democrats also drop the ball on regulating corporate pollution & toxic mercury poisoning, Oregonian

12.12.09 Meet The Lobbyists: Oil And Coal

12.11.09 Corporate lobbyists' Leaders of the rich world are enacting a giant fraud, UK

12.10.09 Carbon stored in forests biomass & soils: US land capacity for CO2 sequestration, USGS

12.10.09 Burn a Tree to Save the Planet? The Crazy Logic Behind Biomass

12.09.09 Don't let the flat-earthers & climate doubters fool you, WaPost, AAAS & Science

12.09.09 Fragmented Rainforests Hold 40% Less Biomass, Treehugger

12.08.09 Population: The real inconvenient truth, China, Financial Post

12.08.09 What people should be talking about to save humanity, and why they won't., BC

12.07.09 AAA+++ Analysis: Why we need to 'lose' at this week's climate summit if we are to win the fight against global warming. BC

12.06.09 6 newspapers in 45 countries with one editorial voice: Humanity Now Requires Immediate Measures on Climate in Copenhagen

12.05.09 Oregon Forest Practices Act to become voluntary? Open season for irresponsible logging to add volume in a down market?

12.04.09 Baring Witness to the Dalai Lama's Prediction

12.03.09 Forest Service seeks termination of half-off discounts for seniors, Oregonian

12.02.09 Climate change denial is the new article of faith for the far right, UK

12.01.09 New 1 min. video "It's Not Such a Wonderful Life", http://www.banksterusa.org

11.30.09 The sixth extinction is much worse than a mere meteor strike disaster, LATimes

11.29.09 Battling Siberia's illegal loggers, BBC News

11.28.09 Biomass wood-fired power plants no cure-all, Boston Globe Editorial

11.27.09 Selling the Sun (solar energy), Feb 09 NRDC

11.26.09 Good news for you and me: Fighting global warming fights death & disease

11.25.09 Mr. President, Finish the Job Here at Home

11.24.09 'Carbon tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitable, advocate says, LATimes

11.23.09 The Problem With Putting a Price Tag on Nature? TNR. But They Already Do, ZERO. The One Thing We All Know It's NOT.

11.22.09 Good. Solar energy is best brewed at home, Science

11.21.09 15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams?

11.20.09 FS' Big Lie: "Miller Canyon Fuels Reduction (LOGGING) Project"..Helicopters called in

11.19.09 Corporate crime is on the rise, The Economist

11.18.09 See Great Climate Change in Our World exhibit from Gary Braasch & AAAS

11.17.09 A Decade Late and Billions (Trillions) Short, UK

11.16.09 Stupidly Chicago considers turning its water system over to private industry, ChiTrib

11.15.09 High stakes in Appalachia as greens battle Big Coal, Toronto

11.14.09 Big profits from nature protection, BBC

11.13.09 Myths of Our Time: America's Morality vs. Material Interests

11.12.09 How Pew Charitable Trusts Sabotages & Destroys Environmental Protection Efforts: What others are saying

11.11.09 Trucks, Trains and Trees: Fraudulent Corporate Economic Model Destroying Nature, World's Forests, Soil, Air & Water, Friedman

11.11.09 Climate Rage: The only way to stop global warming is for rich nations to pay for the damage they've done, NKlein, RS

11.10.09 Baucus gets this one right!

11.09.09 Nader: No Corporate-Owned Congress or White House will Let you Have the Healthcare Every Other Developed Nation Has

11.08.09 More embedded biomass subsidies for Wall Street's pulp & paper industry and its destroyed forests

11.07.09 10 of the Dumbest But Typical (Morally-Corrupt) Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care Battle

11.07.09 STOP Expansion Of Biomass & Coal Burning, & Oil Drilling

11.06.09 America Betrayed?: The Wilderness Society Allows Logging of Remaining Primeval, Virgin, Unlogged National Forests?, IS

11.06.09 So far, Barcelona forestry talks deliver weakened forest protections

11.06.09 Another biomass plant announced in Calif

11.05.09 Climate psychology in cartoons: clues for solving the messaging mystery?, Grist

11.05.09 What Obama (& us!) Is Up Against, RBaker

11.04.09 Friends of the Earth very reasonably attacks carbon trading scam, UK

11.03.09 Senator Tester Betrays Montana Wilderness & the Lungs of the Planet, Koehler

11.03.09 Natural Gas as Coal alternative? Nope

11.02.09 Industry's Timber forecast: Rebound likely years away

11.01.09 The Importance of Rotting Logs and

10.28.09 good climate change cartoon, Ed Stein

10.26.09 We attacked the bankers, but took our eyes off the whole rotten system, UK

10.25.09 Who says it's green to burn woodchips? UK

10.24.09 McKibben Versus Hedges' Clash of Worldviews: How Do We Solve the Environmental Crisis? YES

10.23.09 Unlike Canada, US Supreme Court OKs dumping 4.5 million tons of mine tailings in Tongass Nat'l Forest lake

10.22.09 see the author's blog re: America Betrayed: The Wilderness Society Allows Logging of Remaining Virgin, National Forests?

10.21.09 The Criminal but approved & SFI certified Logging (but FSC would've too) that caused Landslides & Flooding Disaster?

10.20.09 Baffin Island reveals dramatic scale of Arctic climate change, UK

10.20.09 Potential Grows for Biomass Energy, NYTimes

10.19.09 The Fake Fight? "Once Again The Animals Were Conscious of A Vague Uneasiness"

10.18.09 Nicholas Stern: We must agree to halt deforestation and curtail air travel now if . . ., UK

10.17.09 Obama Renews Bush's 9/11 State of Emergency, Hamburg & Seiler

10.16.09 Wall Street's Naked Swindle, Taibbi, RS

10.15.09 A Christian view of trees and forests, By Fr. Benjamin Teitelbaum

10.15.09 The dodo, the cuckoo, and the orca: Why extinction matters & still some deny it

10.14.09 Archbishop of Canterbury: climate crisis a chance to become human again, UK

10.13.09 Transforming Clean-Energy Industry Into a Local One, WaPost

10.12.09 Intimidated by Industry? Conservation Biologists are Setting Minimum Population Size Targets Too Low to Prevent Extinction, ENN,

10.11.09 Oregon thinning project tests Obama forest policy, SeattlePI

10.08.09 Give forests back to local people to save them? NewScientist

10.07.09 Deforestation did in the Maya, NASA

10.07.09 Report highlights deforestation, POLITICO

10.06.09 Giant logging company, SPI, carbon offset deal scoffed at by some observers

10.06.09 100 YEARS OF COMPROMISE, Jay Letto, Buzzworm, 1992

10.05.09 Beware: Industry's worst Threat to What's Left of Our Forests and Trees?: "Biomass is Oregon’s next greatest opportunity"

10.05.09 Sen Tester's wilderness logging bill gets a 'no' in poll, 66-34%, M+T

10.05.09 The Yes Men reveal their next big stunt, their new movie, and plan for Copenhagen

10.04.09 Wrightwood fire grows to 3,500 acres, three homes lost, LAT

10.04.09 The bear essentials of saving salmon, BC

10.03.09 Gang Green's dishonest

10.02.09 If The Russians Did This To Us We'd Kill 'Em, DMGreene

10.01.09 Krugman: We're hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything real to avert it

09.30.09 Check out photographer Brett Cole's latest forest & watershed project for the Native Forest Council

09.28.09 NFC Comments re: DPEIS for the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (DPEIS)

09.27.09 Biomass & CO2: An Inconvenient Truth, Fmr Gainseville, FL Mayor's oped

09.26.09 The Financial Crisis and America’s Casino Culture (Destroys Nature & the Lungs of the Planet Too)

09.25.09 Trees: Out of the Forest and Into the Oven, good article

09.24.09 MUST SEE: Oct National Geographic, "Redwoods: The Super Trees." Going, Going, Gone? pgs 28-63 w a huge foldout

09.23.09 New report on How Efforts to Defend & Protect Nature are derailed by Pew et al.

09.22.09 Is Tester’s Bill Our Best Bet For New Wilderness? Not at the cost of 10 times more wilderness than it saves.

09.21.09 IMPORTANT: French Restructuring Economics to Begin Measuring What We Truly Value

09.19.09 Good but stubborn forest fires near Oakridge, OR put up a fight, RG

09.16.09 Nature, Constitutional Democracy. Peace & Healthcare vs the Corporate Lobbyists?: The outcome is certain. TomDispatch

09.15.09 Sept 24 DEADLINE: PS SEND your objections & comments now on morally insane USDA EIS for burning Forest Biomass for electricity

09.15.09 Trailer: After 154 yrs, where is the enviro movement? -- The Walrus magazine's The Age of Breathing Underwater

09.14.09 Tax carbon heavily and give the money to the people, UK

09.14.09 Why capitalism fails, Boston Globe

09.13.09 Stiglitz: Towards a better measure of well-being, FT

09.12.09 Oregon (de)Forestry board is badly out of sync with its own vision and goals, Oregonian letter

09.11.09 developer financed astroturf support group’s activity

09.10.09 Can civilization survive the now unavoidable environmental catastrophe? UK

09.10.09 Prof. David W. Orr's call for a radical climate culture shift, Bob Costanza in Nature

09.10.09 Asset-stripping industry robber barons file Lawsuit disputing axing of their wilderness logging plan (WOPR)

09.10.09 Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, will find an audience for its assault on America

09.09.09 Michael Moore's 'Capitalism' Flick Rips into Crimes of Wall Street, Guardian (UK)

09.09.09 Old forests can mitigate climate change best when left standing

09.08.09 A fork in the forest road? Oregonian editorial board

09.07.09 JIM STILES BRAVE NEW WEST Broadcast Premiere Sept 20

09.06.09 Food Is Power and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us, Hedges, TruthDig

09.02.09 Forests provide critical resources (Soil, Air & Water, not wood)

09.02.09 Nature: Papers finding biotech crops might harm environment attract a hail of unfair abuse

09.01.09 How the military recruiters get your kids, MoJo

08.31.09 Will Earthlings Survive the Earth - Or Vice Versa?

08.31.09 Sequoias Threatened by 'Hazard' tree-removal Logging

08.30.09 Arkansas Teacher Retirement Fund to bid on timberland

08.29.09 Riparian zones recover quickly after fire, don't need management

08.28.09 Throwing the environment away...

08.27.09 Montana Senator "Turncoat" Tester still defending his massive "collaborative" wilderness logging bill

08.27.09 The Dangers of Linking Climate Change to National Security

08.27.09 Gullible America And The Corporate Exploitation Of Our Entrenched Ignorance, Faulkner

08.26.09 New economic paradigm needed: regarding corporations, forests, nature and human extinction, David Suzuki With Faisal Moola

08.26.09 CRUDE: The Film Chevron Doesn't Want You to See

08.25.09 Some "green" groups bristle at appeal to block logging

08.25.09 Willamette National Forest gets new leader from Vermont, Is She Good or Bad? RG

08.24.09 Throwing Out the Throwaway Economy, Lester Brown

08.23.09 the fallacy of climate activism

08.22.09 Can the Enviro Movement Be Saved (or should it be?)? That's the Hope of the New Film 'Earth Days'

08.21.09 BEWARE: Deep in the Wilderness, Power Companies Wade In, Micro-hydro sneaking up on the West, WSJ

08.20.09 Changing the Corporation (Wall Street's crooks) from something harmful to something good - the way it used to be? Hinkley

08.19.09 Lakoff: The Usual Dem Stupidity & Policy-Speak Disaster for Health Care -- TruthOut

08.18.09 Is there any point in fighting to stave off industrial apocalypse? UK

08.17.09 Our Last Chance to Preserve Life On Earth Is Slipping Away

08.16.09 The Climate Crisis and the Only Question that Matters, Atcheson

08.15.09 FDR was a Man. What's Obama? Hyperbolic scare tactics used to fight Social Security

08.14.09 Fight Back with the Corporate Death Penalty Act: Revoke Insurance Company Charters

08.12.09 MT family rips dishonest beetle-kill logging project

08.12.09 G.D.P. R.I.P.: Will our fraudulent economics destroy Our Country, Our World, Our Species? NYT

08.11.09 America's Wonderful World of (Ir)Rational Superstition

08.11.09 Our 1933 Nightmare

08.10.09 Barron's: US timberlands may be one of the world's most overvalued asset classes

08.08.09 Wall Street's Global Suicide Squad

08.07.09 The Problem of Denial re US' Custom & Culture of Ecological Genocide

08.07.09 Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?

08.07.09 Are We All Corporate Shills and Brainwashed Serfs?

08.07.09 10 amazing truths you already suspected

08.06.09 Pandora's Box, avarice, stupidity & greed? Why beware of geoengineering? Ecological Society

08.06.09 The world's rubbish dump: an oceanic garbage pit that stretches from Hawaii to Japan, UK

08.05.09 George Wuerthner's editorial on dead trees and forest fires, MT

08.04.09 Portland, Oregon's water debate not all so clear

08.04.09 Nader: They're Purloining the People's Property

08.04.09 Carbon credits: 'Cure worse than the disease', biomass, Montreal

08.03.09 Industry's "New" Solution to Too Much Logging & Watershed Destruction? More Logging, SeaTimes

08.02.09 Half of All the Fruit & Veg You Buy is Contaminated, UK

08.01.09 Can we manage fisheries like they were forests?

07.31.09 Herman Daly On Growth, Adbusters

07.30.09 Naomi Klein: Let's Terminate Sarah Palin-Style Capitalism

07.30.09 Is wood-burning biomass combustion good for the environment? 2 radio pcs

07.29.09 Lester Brown. Learning from Past Civilizations

07.29.09 Seattle To Quit Biofuels (& biomass?)

07.28.09 Europe Cannot Believe Obama Allows Continued Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Destruction

07.27.09 Dr. Seuss Book 'The Lorax' Coming To A 3-D Screen Near You

07.27.09 Arundhati Roy, Is Burning Up the Planet for Profit, Progress?: Vedanta mine plans threaten India's poorest

07.25.09 Industry & Collaborators' Whoppers Behind WOPR, Forest Health Thinning, Biomass and the 58.5 Million Acre Fib

07.24.09 The Expanding Carbon Credit Scam, Logging/"Thinning" Your Forests, WSJ

07.23.09 Japan Plans to Make Solar Energy Cheap

07.23.09 Tester’s Wilderness Logging Bill, the Sweet and the Sour, NewWest

07.22.09 Gang Green collaborators & even more logging of your publicly-owned watersheds, HCN

07.21.09 Testers' Dishonest Montana wilderness and logging bill includes biomass plan

07.20.09 Video/Audio of Sen Tester's National Forest Mandated Logging Bill announcement

07.19.09 Voyage to the Plastic Frontier: the Alguita sails the Pacific & it's garbage patch. Larger than Texas?

07.18.09 Britain’s dirty little secret - it's a big dumper of toxic wastes, UK

07.17.09 Embattled Organic Sector Worries About Corrupting Regulation in Favor of Chem/Ag Industry Interests

07.17.09 Feds throw back the WOPR, but . . . 2 pcs, RegisterGuard

07.16.09 The real price of Goldman's giganto-profits, Taibbi

07.16.09 Tongass Deal Marks Obama's First Timber Sale in Roadless Areas, Juneau

07.15.09 Treehugger: Paper or Plastic?

07.15.09 The Healthiest Foods On Earth? Forbes

07.14.09 Getting children back to the great outdoors, Richard Louv, UK

07.14.09 Students arrested at protest of public school logging tax, UofO Emerald

07.13.09 The Planet's Future: Climate Change 'Will Cause Civilisation to Collapse', UK

07.13.09 Monbiot: The rich can relax. We just need the poor world to cut emissions. By 125%, UK

07.12.09 Bill Moyers: Damns corporate lobbyists and their political lapdogs

07.11.09 Some Disillusioned Environmentalists Turn on Obama as Compromiser, NYT

07.10.09 The Ecologist: Clean coal? It's anything but...

07.10.09 Dr. James Hansen: G-8 Failure Reflects U.S. Failure on Climate Change

07.09.09 Citizens decry killing more trees, clearcutting to produce biomass fuel, CBC

07.09.09 The Organic Alternative: A Matter of Survival , Ronnie Cummins

07.09.09 Treading Water: How the US Is Blocking Progress on Climate Change

07.08.09 Forest thinning no cure-all, CO

07.08.09 Colorado town's wildfire law called intrusive, LATimes

07.07.09 Yet Another Betrayal, Waxman-Markey Will Not Do: A 'Fell-Swoop' Moment Missed, Strickler

07.07.09 Clarence Darrow 1902

07.07.09 The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive

07.07.09 Study: No increased fire threat in owl habitat, SPI

07.06.09 The Garden: Los Angeles urban farmers struggle against corporate interests, and the Take Back the Land movement

07.06.09 Protesters push back loggers in Elliott State Forest, Oregonian

07.06.09 The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed

07.05.09 New Secrecy Rule Lets Goldman Sachs Control Stock Prices Unmolested by Public Scrutiny

07.05.09 No retreat from uproar over logging the Bohemian Club woods, SFC

07.04.09 First Detailed Look At Progress Of A Wildland-urban Fire? ScienceDaily

07.03.09 B.C. Hydro & timber barons' war on the commonwealth, forests & humanity for biomass energy

07.02.09 update: Can Pacific NW forests sequester Carbon as before?

07.01.09 US Forest Service must reinstate tougher logging guidelines, SFC

07.01.09 The Film Big Coal Does Not Want You to See

07.01.09 Once again a federal judge overturns Bush administration logging rule, SPI

06.30.09 Biomass or Biomess? The state forges ahead with many questions unanswered. ValleyAdvocate

06.30.09 new video on clear cutting: you tube

06.29.09 Betraying Humanity & the Planet, Krugman, NYT

06.29.09 full text: James Hansen on Climate Bill & Gang Green

06.28.09 America Betrayed: Waxman-Markey's costly climate bill makes it worse

06.28.09 0 for 5: High court losses stuns Gang Green

06.28.09 Most complete Earth map published, BBC

06.27.09 Dishonest House Energy bill gives boost to biomass industry & subsidies for more forest destruction

06.26.09 Sitka: Prince of Wales Timber Sale Decision Signed, More Tongass Forest logging

06.25.09 Ecologist, foresters weigh in on biomass plant, Greenfield, Mass

06.24.09 Oil or Trees? Germany Takes Lead in Saving Ecuador's Rainforest

06.24.09 Waxman-Markey Bill offers incentives for businesses that pollute, more harm than good. PI

06.23.09 Supreme Court OKs dumping mine waste into Alaskan lake, LATimes

06.22.09 Great movie, the Importance of Dirt!

06.19.09 1800 pages of complaints lodged against one BC power project

06.18.09 Liberty's Promises Redeemed by Exxon, NOT you or I

06.17.09 Climate Crisis: Gaia's evil twin: Is life its own worst enemy?

06.17.09 Key Findings of the Report on Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

06.16.09 Biomass plants called threat to area forests, MA

06.15.09 'Forest footprint' will show investors which companies care about the rainforests & human survival, UK

06.15.09 Protect forests to cut carbon: study, AU

06.14.09 Christian charity: Rich Countries are wrecking climate talks

06.13.09 DoE gives FutureGen $1B in

06.12.09 Bullets don't stop Guatemala green activist, LAT

06.12.09 Pigs-in-the-trough dominate Sacramento meeting to kick off overhaul of federal forests plan

06.11.09 Wuerthner: Healthy Forests, biomass and thinning bogus (excellent overview)

06.11.09 Albany NY: clearcutting forest for a new factory?

06.11.09 Obama May Reinstate some oil- and gas-drilling leases, LAT

06.10.09 Break the banks, for the good of the people, Stiglitz, AU

06.09.09 Army Corps orders thousands of trees chopped down, to protect levees? SPI

06.09.09 Media release: Algonquin ban logging in vast traditional territory until Quebec and Canada respect agreements and leadership

06.09.09 Study faults federal wildfire effort, SPI

06.09.09 Why Is the American Coal Foundation Setting the Curriculum at Elementary Schools?

06.08.09 Vote to increase logging on Oregon's state forests was short-sighted, Astorian: 2 pcs

06.08.09 Why We Lose? Oregonian LNG legal bribery story demonstrates need for campaign finance reform

06.08.09 Wuerthner: Factory Farming’s Long Reach

06.08.09 The good, the bad, and the ugly at Bonn, climate, forests & logging - RAN

06.07.09 One of our "double the cut" green groups wants to do something good and protect some wilderness. RG

06.06.09 13 killed in Peru as Indians battle mining & drilling destruction, police, LAT

06.05.09 America Betrayed: Watch Bill Moyers & Jeremy Scahill on how Obama escalating Clinton/Bush policies

06.05.09 The Pesticide Industry Protection Act

06.04.09 It's Past Time To Save What Little's Left of Nature, America's Lungs of the Planet & Wilderness

06.04.09 "Forest carbon market already shows cracks", Reuters

06.04.09 Medical Bills Driving Most Middle-Class Bankruptcies, Forbes

06.03.09 Oregon's corrupt Forestry Board allows more clearcut logging, & ignores costs & consequences

06.03.09 NEWS: House Ag Subcomm. Reviews the Future of U.S. Forestry -- USDA

06.02.09 [New from GRAIN] New land grab website

06.02.09 America Betrayed: Mountaintp Removal Coal Mining Gets Obama's OK, ChiTrib

06.02.09 Students Aren't Customers; Education Is Not a Commodity, Astore

06.01.09 78 pp. report url: Canadian Forest Service re Forest & Climate

06.01.09 Solving California's lumber crisis from big timber's perspective

06.01.09 California forests hold one answer to climate change, LAT

05.31.09 Obama's quiet OK for mountaintop removal coal mining

05.30.09 Wangari Maathai: 'We know what to do: why don't we do it?'

05.29.09 Amnesty International: Underlying the economic crisis is a human rights time bomb

05.29.09 GE Trees/fiber plantations interview--Living on Earth--NPR

05.28.09 The Climate Crisis: What Would it Look Like to Do Everything We Can Imagine?, Yes

05.27.09 The Global Food Crisis - the End of Plenty, National Geographic

05.27.09 EPA greenlights the 'Appalachian Apocalypse' of illegal & destructive mountaintop coal mining

05.26.09 China makes massive investment in solar energy

05.25.09 ‘Clean’ Energy and Poisoned Water, TruthDig

05.24.09 Copenhagen Climate Change summit hijacked by biggest polluters

05.23.09 Beware Bush & Obama teams are Two Sides of the Same Coin, Sibel Edmonds

05.22.09 Study: Forest protection still falls short of minimal 10% target, Nature

05.21.09 St. Clair/Frank: Obama and the Environment: The Politics of Bait-and-Switch

05.19.09 To Cut or Not To Cut? Clearcut Forest Discord: BLM's conflicting rules for more logging, RG

05.19.09 Another Democrat sell-out, New Kansas Gov. Reverses Decision, Approves Coal Plant

05.18.09 Climate Change at the Third Pole, Vandana Shiva

05.17.09 Humans Seem Hell Bent on Committing Mass Suicide -- But There's Still Hope

05.16.09 Biomass seen as future of logging

05.16.09 Water Wars: In the Calif's Owens Valley, resentment again flows with the water

05.15.09 Humans Seem Hell Bent on Committing Mass Suicide -- But There's Still Hope

05.13.09 Open and Planned cellulosic ethanol plants that will use wood

05.11.09 THE INFLUENCE GAME: Crooked & Destructive Firms exact climate price, SFC

05.08.09 The Good Times as We Knew it Aren't Coming Back, So Now What?, Greider

05.07.09 Who Will Protect the Forests?

05.06.09 Orion: Capitalism and the Crisis of Nature, and Jay Griffiths

05.05.09 Hailed as a Miracle Biofuel, Jatropha Falls Short of Hype, Luoma

05.04.09 Save What's left: Making a 'Sacred Zone' of Appalachia

05.03.09 Water diversions will hurt environment, BC

05.02.09 GREEN BUILDING or JUST GREENWASHED?, Architecture Week

05.01.09 Partners with, not masters of the Earth, Medford

04.30.09 Book Review: Prosperity without Growth?

04.30.09 RICO Mafia Law Used Against Environmentalists for Tree Sits, Civil Disobedience

04.30.09 Split Votes At State Forestry Board Could Mean More Logging

04.29.09 Low-cost home weather proofing gets test in Portland, Oregon

04.29.09 Imagine a World Without Seafood for Supper -- It's Nearer Than You Think, UK

04.28.09 Florida Medical Association resolution against biomass

04.28.09 World's Largest Solar Tower in Spain Now Powers 10,000 Homes

04.28.09 Great read: Thinking About The Future

04.27.09 Oregon's New Senator Merkely pulls out all the stops, levels all the guns at your forest, to increase logging

04.27.09 Great: Beyond MoveOn: Using the Internet for Real Change, Stauber

04.26.09 CARTOON: Fossil Fuels Killing the Planet

04.25.09 Wash state loggers manage the trees on family tracts to keep woods thriving?

04.24.09 BC Timber Companies appalled at the thought of paying taxes

04.24.09 Excessive logging causes floods, Jakarta Post

04.23.09 Forest Fighters: Developers tearing down the Peruvian Amazon have a new enemy

04.22.09 Timber beast named to head US Forest Service?

04.22.09 Offshore wind turbines get further boost from Obama?

04.21.09 Donnelly Photo: Little North Fork Santiam River - Opal Creek Recreation Area

04.20.09 Sequoia Forest Keepers, Six Simple Ways to Make a Difference

04.19.09 Americans destroy & flush native & ancient forests down the toilet, Milwaukie

04.16.09 Wuerthner: Editorial on dead tree value in Montana paper

04.14.09 The Corporate Lobbyists Behind the Tea Parties

04.14.09 To stop a climate catastrophe we must first believe we can

04.14.09 The Dire Fate of Forests (& Humanity) in a Warmer World, TIME

04.14.09 Surprise? Timber Industry claims logging necessary to keep us safe, AZ

04.13.09 Hartmann: Debt is Not Money – and Must Be Regulated

04.13.09 Slow Freight: Sail Power is Actually Faster Than Containerships Today?

04.12.09 The environment is too important to be left to the green movement,

04.11.09 Daydreaming Our Way to Shipwreck

04.10.09 Forests & Wildfire series, LATimes

04.10.09 A Ponzi banking industry fraud that makes Madoff look small time

04.08.09 Nature Sabotaged? Former Oilsands Exec Named Head of Canada's Climate Working Group

04.08.09 Uncut Forest Reserves found to be 'effective tool' for reducing forest wildfires

04.08.09 More trees for a cooler earth. Yes plant them but more importantly STOP cutting them down, there are better alternatives

04.07.09 New thinking on the bark beetle epidemic, deadtrees don't increase fires, DenPost editorial

04.07.09 A burning issue: Forest Fire and the Freedom of Information Act, SacBee

04.07.09 Shrinking Forests: The Many Costs, Lester Brown, Is humanity doomed by its own avarice & greed?

04.03.09 Timber industry's proposed forest biofuel power plant raises questions about true environmental costs

04.03.09 Change how the world works? Yes, we can

04.03.09 WATER, the Blue Gold: Have the Next Resource Wars Begun?

04.03.09 Neither trees nor wood is a wise choice for energy

04.03.09 Bill Moyers: The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it?

04.02.09 Obama Admin files 2 felony charges against Utah oil lease citizen/activist Tim DeChristopher, WSJ

04.02.09 Out West, a new kind of water war, LATimes

04.01.09 Obama won't defend Bush spotted owl plan: Oregonian

04.01.09 A new film on Old-Growth BC Forests! Protests, Politics, Ecology..

04.01.09 8 Ways to Join the Local Food Movement

04.01.09 Corporate Banking Industry Oligarchy?

03.30.09 America Betrayed: by Wall Street & Govt (Ds & Rs): "The Quiet Coup", The Atlantic

03.29.09 Wuerthner: Seeing the forest through the trees

03.29.09 Logging Industry Now Trying to Adapt to Greener Economy? - NYT

03.27.09 The Ever Worsening U.S. Failure

03.26.09 Bush-Era's Trojan Horse Wilderness protection bill gets Congress' OK, Gang Green's

03.24.09 Alaska: Senators introduce same old bill giving away 80,000 acres of public land

03.24.09 Perfect storm of environmental and economic collapse closer than you think

03.24.09 Monbiot: Biochar & Biofuels won't work and to try it is to destroy Nature (and all Life) en mass

03.23.09 Wuerthner: Montana Wilderness proposal

03.23.09 Former N. Idaho national forest employees blast land trade

03.21.09 Glen Barry: NEW EARTH RISING: Ecological Sustainability, the Growth Machine, and the Financial Crisis

03.20.09 America Betrayed: Logging, landslides, flooding and ultimate disaster, NYT

03.19.09 WHY CONTINUE FIGHTING FOR JUST HALF OF THE FOREST? Save private forestlands as well, if you wish to survive, Roy Keene

03.18.09 Meet the New Montana Woodproducts Association

03.18.09 Shell Dumps Wind, Solar and Hydro Power in Favor of Biofuels

03.18.09 Who owns Colorado's rainwater?

03.18.09 Time to end selective protection for Nature & the programs of Save a little here, Lose a lot over there

03.17.09 Deschutes Forest awards stimulus thinning contracts

03.17.09 Wuerthner: Temporary Roads

03.16.09 Violating Morality & the 10 Commandments to Worship at the Altar of Unfettered Capitalism?

03.16.09 BBC: Forests 'facing a testing time'

03.16.09 World Forests Rapidly Disappearing - Biofuels a Major Driver

03.16.09 Nader: Jailtime Not Bailtime

03.15.09 The US Is Facing a Weimar Moment

03.15.09 Wuerthner: Praise the Dead (wood that is), Forest mag

03.15.09 BC: Protect Island's old growth, native forest

03.13.09 MSU, MTU win $1.4-million forestry biofuels grant, Detroit Free Press

03.12.09 Europe’s Way of Encouraging Solar Power Arrives in the U.S.

03.12.09 Federal stimulus bill to cause huge increase in logging, biomass, biofuels

03.11.09 EDITORIAL: Dishonest Wilderness logging bill (S-22) blocked, temporarily

03.11.09 We don't have to destroy forests for soft toilet paper

03.10.09 Pigs-in-the-trough say: USFS timber plans need to be more balanced (in favor of more logging)

03.10.09 Biofuel deforestation. Great: Rebuilding a rainforest, in Borneo, Willie Smits' 20 min TED talk

03.10.09 The future of human beings is what matters: President of Brazil, Lula da Silva

03.09.09 Out of Control Capitalism's failure to control the animal spirits

03.05.09 Over Population: Planet Overload: How human population growth is guaranteeing mass misery & death

03.05.09 A Sleeping Giant: Global warming may trigger carbon 'time bomb', Nature

03.05.09 Share My Ride, eliminate some cars, NYT

03.05.09 Krugman: Obama a Slave to Wall Street Crooks No Less Than Bush?

03.03.09 Uncertainty clouds plan to extract biofuel from Michigan’s forests, MI Messenger

03.02.09 Vermont: Long term forest resiliency is threatened by chainsaws that mimc 'natural' forests, Boston

03.01.09 Daily Kos: US Homeland Security targets green groups

02.27.09 Soft paper & pampered bottoms destroy forest watersheds & lungs-of-the-planet

02.26.09 Greenwash: Why 'clean coal' is the ultimate climate change oxymoron

02.26.09 2 examples of climate-driven forest death, Cypress & Australia

02.25.09 How You Can Green Your Home and Cash in on Stimulus Money, CSM

02.25.09 PG&E will add 500 megawatts of solar power in California, LAT

02.24.09 Dishonest & Stupid: Cutting & Burning Forests for Electricity. Xcel Seeks 3rd Boiler to Burn Waste Biomass, WI

02.23.09 Death from Above: Heli-Logging Nanaimo's Watershed, video

02.22.09 Timber industry continues slide

02.21.09 Will Salmon Survive 10 Years let alone the Century?

02.21.09 Beaverhead-Deerlodge Natl. Forest liquidation logging plan released

02.19.09 Woodcock [Massive Clearcutting] Plan Gets Busy, FlyRod&Reel

02.19.09 Corporate Terrorism Threaten Americans in Appalachia Too

02.17.09 Can America's West stay wild?

02.13.09 Obama’s voodoo economics: Deficit Nonchalance

02.13.09 The fight for water in North America

02.13.09 Foreclosures, Ecosystems, and the economy part 1, Prosperity for RI

02.12.09 The New Depression

02.11.09 Greider: Looting Social Security

02.11.09 What Wall Street Wants, The Recovery Plan From Hell, Michael Hudson

02.10.09 Lives Are Being Destroyed by the Federal Government, The Growing Army of Angry Men

02.07.09 Plunder and Blunder; How the 'Financial Experts' Keep Screwing You

02.04.09 A Template for Change

02.04.09 Chain Saw Scouting

02.04.09 3 perspectives on Obama in early February, Gathering in DC April 29-May 2nd

02.01.09 GREAT: A guide to surviving - and thriving in a new green future, PA

02.01.09 Herbert Hoover Lives, Still Perpetuating Wall-Street-First, Disaster Capitalism

01.28.09 Logging left its mark on land

01.28.09 Can Krugman Save Us?

01.27.09 Who will speak for the forests?

01.26.09 Fire and ancient forests belong together. East oregonian

01.25.09 Life on Google Earth: "If you can map it, you can save it"

01.25.09 Important re Biofuels: sign-on letter opposing conversion of forests to fuel

01.23.09 Collapse of the Clean Coal Myth

01.23.09 PCRoberts: Another real estate crisis is about to hit and little or nothing good is being done

01.22.09 Economic meltdown, worse than '29, sure to define Obama's years in office, Canada

01.22.09 Mortgage crisis is our responsibility

01.21.09 Obama Must be Even Bolder than FDR

01.20.09 George Wuerthner: Importance of Dead Trees - in response to industry logging demands

01.19.09 Economic problems? Bring War to the Rescue

01.19.09 Obama and Coal

01.19.09 Parenti: Capitalism's Self-inflicted Apocalypse

01.16.09 Britannica on public lands livestock grazing

01.16.09 The End of Wall Street's Boom

01.16.09 Make the stimulus big, smart and fair, Salon

01.13.09 Saving Easter Island: US Repeating ecocide?

01.10.09 Exposing the Myth of Clean Coal Power

01.08.09 Logging, Landslides & Flooding: Seattle PI

01.05.09 Causing Inevitable Human Extinction?: Oceans comprise a sea of troubles, Economist

01.05.09 Logging-Caused Landslides: Homeowners should know full risks but don't because the state protects powerful logging interests

01.05.09 The End of the Financial World as We Know It

01.05.09 The monstrous conceit of modern economics

01.05.09 "Biophysical Economics": growth, population & the destruction of nature

01.05.09 Risk Mismanagement

01.03.09 Logging-Caused Landslides: Owners are unaware as Oregon's Governor & Legislature protects logging interests over people

12.29.08 What's Wrong & What We Need to Do About It

12.29.08 Was the 'Credit Crunch' a Myth Used to Sell a Trillion-Dollar Scam?

12.29.08 Wealthy Americans continue to dodge the taxman

12.26.08 Don't fix the economy - change it

12.23.08 Sealaska's Get Rich Quick Scheme involves taking public land for profit

12.22.08 America Needs a Period of Pain

12.22.08 Eco Sellouts and Collaborators - what side are they on?

12.19.08 Green Myopia

12.19.08 What Happened on the Way to the Inauguration?

12.19.08 Donnelly: My take on the Obama team

12.19.08 Where have all the bailout billions gone?

12.19.08 Dr. Glen Barry on carbon logging...

12.19.08 BOOK: James Galbraith: The Predator State

12.16.08 A Radical Plan for Funding the New Deal, Yes Magazine

12.12.08 Who controls what we drink? Corporate water comes to (and from) San Francisco

12.12.08 How Wall Street is destroying the timber way of life

12.11.08 Obama and the 2076 Election

12.11.08 Who controls what we drink? Corporate water comes to (and from) San Francisco

12.11.08 No more free trees

12.11.08 Beware the Collarborators:
Enviros supporting more logging now also for electricity production


12.11.08 Too late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst

12.11.08 Stimulus Is for Suckers

12.11.08 Big Utility Bullies Conservationist

12.07.08 The fear mongering forest liquidators are being proven wrong

12.06.08 David Suzuki:
If I had four trillion dollars


12.02.08 Why is single-payer health reform not viable?

12.01.08 Change: Dean Baker's better way to stop foreclosures

12.01.08 Beaverhead Deerlodge NF bill a wilderness giveaway

12.01.08 Subprime bailout could cost $8.5 TRILLION, or more?

12.01.08 Stop Hurting/Managing the Forest Watersheds: All he's saying is give brush a chance

12.01.08 Oregon governor picks moderate for de-forestry board? What nonsense!

12.01.08 Battle for the forests and water

12.01.08 Blaming 'the Stupids' for the Financial Disaster

12.01.08 Restoring Tarboo Creek offers a model for saving Puget Sound

11.25.08 Monbiot: The planet is now so vandalized that only total energy renewal can save us

11.25.08 Carbon Market Fundamentalism - Why cap and trade, and offsets, do NOT work

11.23.08 The Changing Climate of US Politics, Prof David Orr

11.23.08 Climate change affects forest. American forests too

11.22.08 The Dirty Secret of the Financial Crisis: Our Banking System's Broken

11.21.08 Toles: One Last Thing (Cartoon)

11.21.08 Paulson's Cascade of Lies

11.21.08 Guardian UK: BP and the Myth of a World 'Beyond Petroleum'

11.20.08 CEOs Flew Private Jets to Ask for Bailout

11.20.08 OPB continues campaign of fear

11.18.08 Beyond the Bailout: Agenda for a New Economy

11.12.08 Science Teacher John Borowski:
Kennedy for head of EPA


11.10.08 BEWARE Forces of Darkness at Work:
Public Lands of Particular Concern to Liquidation/Extraction Interests


11.06.08 Boom, Bust, and Recovery in the World Economy

11.06.08 Lessons Learned from the 1932-1933 Presidential Transition

11.06.08 Yale's Gus Speth Calls for "Civic Unreasonableness" on the Environment

11.03.08 Stiglitz: How to Fix It (Ignored by both major parties)

10.31.08 W's not going quietly:
The Grand Slam against environmental and other regulations...


10.31.08 What Will Gas Cost on November 5th?

10.31.08 airport security scanner that can read your mind

10.29.08 Get More Radical Now: An interview with Gus Speth, Orion Magazine

10.29.08 Manufacturing Thirst: The Hidden Water Costs of Our Industrial Economy

10.28.08 Monbiot: How These Gibbering Numbskulls Came to Dominate Washington. Is the US Teaching Ignorance?

10.25.08 Weyerhaeuser stock sinks to historic low

10.23.08 NY Times Editorial on Reprehensible Republican Efforts to Block Democracy

10.23.08 Value a Forest, Cool a Planet

10.22.08 Bailout: They keep running the same play
and it works every time


10.21.08 Change Tax Policy to Support Forests, Life

10.16.08 The Road to Catastrophe & what to do if we really wanted to fix it

10.13.08 Cancer of Growth Economics No Longer Make Sense on Our Finite Planet

10.13.08 Fraudulent Cancer of Economic Growth: Canada, and rest of world, must reinvent how we measure success

10.13.08 Nature loss 'dwarfs bank crisis'

10.05.08 Widow of man who sued Forest Service seeking access to records

10.05.08 Not Without my Golden Parachute!

10.05.08 Cartoon: Wall Street at the trough

10.03.08 Lax Oversight? Maybe $64 Million for DC Pols Explains the Giant Bailout & Taxpayer Ripoff

10.03.08 Corrupt Congress Approves Bailout for Crooked Bankers & to Hell with the People

10.03.08 From Democracy to Crazy-ocracy...And Back Again?

10.03.08 Economist Dean Baker:
Is The Bailout Necessary? (video)


10.03.08 Howard Zinn:
From Empire to Democracy, No Bailout


10.01.08 Why propping up banks will not rescue a debauched financial system

10.01.08 Weyerhaeuser at the public trough,
As Always



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