The Good Food Revolution The lush landscape of Hawai‘i once offered abundant food. What can these islands teach us about food and sufficiency? by Claire Hope Cummings Published on Monday, March 9, 2009 by YES! Magazine The island of Kaua‘i is one of the most beautiful and fragile places on earth...

Inheriting Halliburton's Army: What Will Obama Do With KBR? by Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch.com February 22nd, 2009 Gopi Krishna, a KBR employee, gives Sgt. Miguel Gallegos, a communications sergeant with HHC, 2nd BCT, a slice of pumpkin pie inside Kirkuk Air Bases dining facility on Thanksgiving ...

http://www.greens.org/s-r/47/47-02.html Production-Side Environmentalism by Don Fitz Excerpts: Production-side environmentalism places blame on the criminal rather than the victim. It looks at the profits oil companies reap from urban sprawl rather than demeaning people who have no way to get to wor...

URI AVNERY, A HERO FOR PEACE Put quite simply, Uri Avnery is my hero. This former israeli paramilitary terrorist turned peace activist bravely stands up to religious extremism and zionist fanaticism. I read his book "Israel Sin Sionistas" twenty years ago and made me deeply inspired and hopeful. The...

From treehugger.com: 5 Food Films That Deserved an Oscar Nomination by Jeff Nield, Vancouver, British Columbia on 01.22.09 digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/01/5-food-films-deserved-oscar-nomination.php'; digg_title = '5 Food Films That Deserved an Oscar Nomination'; digg_skin = 'comp...

Accelerating into disaster – when banks manage the food crisis Civil society declaration to the High Level Meeting on Food Security (Madrid, 26-27 January 2009) Against the dramatic background of a profound global food and general economic crisis the Spanish government organizes the “ High Level...

I met Heinemann at the GenØk International Biosafety Course in the University of Tromsø in Norway last summer. He is one of the world's leading scientific authorities on the risks of GMO's and the fallacies of genetic engineering. In the first two days of the course Heinemann gave us an amazing se...

CCR Statement on the Selection of Rev. Rick Warren to Lead the Convocation at the Presidential Inauguration NEW YORK - December 23 - The Center for Constitutional Rights is outraged at President Obama's choice of the right wing Rev. Rick Warren to lead the convocation at his inauguration. This is "c...

CARBON SEQUESTRATION: WHAT'S THE POINT? [Rachel's introduction: In addition to being pure fiction, "clean coal" is a really dumb idea.] By Peter Montague [Rachel's introduction: An earlier version of this essay appeared on Discovery News Dec. 1, 2008 . This updated version includes new information, ...

U.S. Agriculture Nominee Attracts Controversy by Ben Block on December 19, 2008 Photo courtesy change.gov Photo courtesy change.gov USDA Secretary nominee Tom Vilsack stands alongside Interior Department nominee Ken Salazar (right) and President-elect Barack Obama (left). President-elect Barack Obam...