A Career in the Circular Economy? Six main things you need to know about it. Government Quietly Admits to Weather Modification Program. 12th March 2016 By Ryan Cristian Guest Writer for Wake Up World As the United States moves farther away from the democracy it once pretended to be, the level of propaganda and indoctrination that the average American must wade through in order to get the smallest amount of Truth is staggering. We have reached a point in which Americans are so overwhelmed with the current battle taking place between the Alternative News community and mainstream media, and its barrage of contradicting “Facts,” that most have simply chosen to completely remove themselves from any critical thinking. Even when the government itself reveals an age-old lie to be true, most are so indoctrinated with the idea of the “conspiracy” that they convince themselves that the revelation is just another trick of those deceptive “conspiracy theorists.”
This has been seen many times in recent years. “Ground-based equipment will be used to disperse silver iodine particles into suitable storm clouds. Do not ingest. Sources: Contamination found at two Fire and Rescue training bases at Londonderry and Albion Park. Updated Chemicals believed to be linked to firefighting foam, which contaminated waterways in the Hunter region, have been discovered at two Fire and Rescue New South Wales training bases. The Environmental Protection Agency has identified elevated levels of Perfluorinated Chemicals (PFCs) in preliminary water testing samples taken from Fire and Rescue NSW training sites at Londonderry, in Sydney's west and Albion Park, near Shellharbour, in the Illawarra region.
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) said the chemicals may be related to the previous use of firefighting foam and other chemicals such as aviation hydraulic oil used at these sites. The chemicals are also at the centre of an investigation into water contamination in Williamtown, near Newcastle, in the Hunter.
It was revealed in September last year that chemicals from fire fighting foam used at Williamtown air base had leaked into ground and surface water, prompting bans on bore water and closing fishing grounds. Elwha: Roaring back to life. By Lynda V. Mapes Seattle Times environment reporter ELWHA RIVER — The Elwha watershed is booming with new life, after the world’s largest dam removal.
The first concrete went flying in September 2011, and Elwha Dam was out the following March. Glines Canyon Dam upriver tumbled for good in September 2014. Today the river roars through the tight rock canyon once plugged by Elwha Dam, and surges past the bald, rocky hill where the powerhouse stood. The hum of the generators is replaced by the river singing in full voice, shrugging off a century of confinement like it never happened.
“Big things can happen if people persevere,” said Mike McHenry, biologist with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, which got the ball rolling on dam removal when it was still thought a crazy idea. Not anymore. PacifiCorp did the math on keeping the Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in Southwestern Washington and blew it up with one blast on Oct. 28, 2011. It’s as if the whole watershed was waiting. VersoBooks.com. "War, by creating a state of exception, has justified and encouraged a ‘brutalizing’ of relations between society and environment. " The excerpt below, from Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's The Shock of the Anthropocene, looks at the environmental consequences of war.
Read our Welcome to the Anthropocene (climate change) reading list here. In 1945, after visiting the ruins of Cologne, Solly Zuckerman, a zoologist and one of the founding fathers of British operational research, had the idea of writing an article on the environmental consequences of strategic bombing. In his memoirs, he explains that he abandoned this because the absolute desolation that he had witnessed ‘cried out for a more eloquent piece than I could ever have written’. Zuckerman had proposed to his publisher an intriguing title: The Natural History of Destruction.Perhaps out of respect for human victims, historians have generally not taken up this project. Against the Anthropocene by Daniel Hartley. The Power of Buying Less by Buying Better. According to a recent survey commissioned by the British charity Barnardo’s, a majority of women’s garments are worn a mere seven times before being pushed to the back of the closet or tossed into the garbage.
Combatting this wastefulness is at the heart of a growing number of clothing brands offering alternatives to so-called “fast fashion,” the trendy, throwaway method of selling clothes pioneered by companies such as H&M, and the cultural force to blame for the world’s overflowing and underutilized closets. Among the other startups positioning themselves as durable and ethical alternatives to throwaway fads are the online retailers Zady, Cuyana, Of a Kind, Everlane, and The 30 Year Sweatshirt. Mainstream fashion’s bad behavior is arguably opening the door for these more ethically-minded companies to flourish. Tom Cridland, a 25-year-old British designer and entrepreneur, launched The 30 Year Sweatshirt last summer to call to task fashion’s built-in obsolescence.
But maybe not. Pandora's box: how GM mosquitos could have caused Brazil's microcephaly disaster. These 'promiscuous' transposons have found special favour with genetic engineers, whose goal is to create 'universal' systems for transferring genes into any and every species on earth. Almost none of the geneticists has considered the hazards involved. Since August 2015, a large number of babies in Northeast Brazil have been born with very small heads, a condition known as microcephaly, and with other serious malformations. 4,180 suspected cases have been reported.
Epidemiologists have found a convincing correlation between the incidence of the natal deformities and maternal infections with the Zika virus, first discovered in Uganda's Zika Valley in 1947, which normally produces non-serious illness. The correlation has been evidenced through the geographical distrubution of Zika infections and the wave of deformities. Zika virus has also been detected in the amniotic fluids and other tissues of the affected babies and their mothers. Oxitec's GM mosquitoes So what's to worry about? 1. 2. 3. From Fleece Jackets to Your Food: The Scary Journey of Microplastics.
There is No Environment: The Earth is our Extended Body. The following is a guest post by Naturopathic Physician, Dr. Barry Taylor. Dr. Taylor is a longtime supporter of Pachamama Alliance, Symposium Facilitator, and the founder of the Love Your Body Institute. Join Dr. We are living in a time of turmoil for the Earth. These problems are a result of the way modern society exploits the Earth and her resources—the way we relate to the Earth as separate, non-living, and unlimited. I believe that we can transform our relationship to the Earth. Learning from Indigenous Wisdom We, in the modern world, are learning from the wisdom of the indigenous people that our sense of separation is an illusion. From this perspective, we can more easily see that we are a part of the Earth, and not separate.
How the Achuar People See Our Place in the World 10 years ago, when I was in the Amazon Jungle staying at Kapawi ecolodge, I was talking with a young man who served us food and was preparing to go on a 14-day trek though the jungle to visit his parents. Join Dr. No coffin required: ACT plans to introduce natural burials. Posted Plans are underway to allow for deceased people in the ACT to be buried without a coffin. The end effect is you'd end up with a natural forest, an area of trees and low shrubs. Minister Shane Rattenbury Minister for Territory and Municipal Services Shane Rattenbury told 666 ABC Canberra he was in negotiation with the ACT Public Cemeteries Authority to make natural burials an option in the territory. "People are looking for more environmentally friendly ways to be buried," he said.
"Natural burials don't involve the energy of a cremation, nor do they involve some of the chemicals that can be in an embalming process or that can be in a coffin. " As well as environmental impetus, Mr Rattenbury said the option would provide people with more choices and would also require less land. "In theory, it should take up less land because people would be buried vertically, rather than horizontally," he said.
"It won't be everyone's cup of tea," he said. 10 Life Hacks to Help You Cut Plastic Out of the Picture. By Kate Good / onegreenplanet.org Plastic is so ubiquitous that it can be found in or associated with nearly every tangible item in existence. Just think about how many different things you used today that either were plastic or came packaged in plastic, you’re guaranteed to come up with at least five. It’s no secret that we all have a rather sordid relationship with plastic: it’s incredibly convenient, but it’s equally wasteful. In the U.S., we go through around 1,500 plastic water bottles every second, and it takes around 100 years for these bottles to break down. While some people look to recycling as the solution for plastic waste, the reality is only nine percent of plastic in the U.S. ever reaches a recycling facility, and the rest ends up in landfills or more likely waterways and the ocean.
There are around 270,000 tons of plastic waste floating on the surface of the oceans; plastic bags and plastic microfibers and beads make up a vast majority of this waste. 1. The Kitchn 2. 3. 4. Government Confirms Earthquakes are Fracking Related. The US Geological Survey released findings of a study which confirms, as many suspected, that increased seismic activity in eight states is due to fracking.
Claire Bernish(The Pontiac Tribune) – The US Geological Survey released findings of a study which confirms, as many suspected, that increased seismic activity in eight states is due to fracking. Since 2009, an abrupt spike in earthquakes, in areas previously considered stable throughout the central and eastern US, coincided with drilling related to the boom in hydraulic fracturing by the oil and gas industry. Injection of wastewater into wells deep underground in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas, is causing the quakes, which had a magnitude of 3 (M3) and above, though the process of fracking, itself, is only occasionally the culprit.
“These earthquakes are occurring at a higher rate than ever before and pose a much greater risk to people living nearby.” (Feat. Image: Sue Ogrocki/AP) Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change. Would any sane PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”? Part of the problem is that we’ve been victims of a campaign of systematic misdirection. Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming. Or let’s talk water. Or let’s talk energy. Or let’s talk waste. I want to be clear. The third problem is that it accepts capitalism’s redefinition of us from citizens to consumers.
Fukishima Storage Facility Drone Video - Nuclear Waste in Bags Near Ocean. Drone footage captured by Ruptly shows millions of tons of radioactive soil and debris packed in black bags in a temporary storage site at Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture. This incredible video shows the haphazard manner in which this temporary storage facility is stacking up nuclear waste in what appears to be less than 100 yards from the Pacific Ocean. Screenshot of Ruptly Video. Polar Bears Weakened by Pollution as Well as Warmth. In Russia’s Franz Josef Land and across its whole range the bear faces problems. (RM4Y via Wikimedia Commons) This Creative Commons-licensed piece first appeared at Climate News Network.
LONDON—Greenland’s polar bears have a thyroid problem. Their endocrine systems, too, are being disrupted. Kristin Møller Gabrielsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Research that they examined the liver, muscle and kidney tissues taken from seven polar bears killed by Inuit hunters in East Greenland in 2011 and analysed the effect of more than 50 contaminants in plasma samples from Ursus maritimus, to see what effect organohalogen compounds could have on the bears’ thyroid systems. But the researchers found high concentrations of plastic pollution and pesticide contamination in the creatures’ tissues, many of which could affect the hormonal systems.
Retreating ice Conservation guidelines. Media | Videos, Voices & Words Inspiring Global Citizens. "There is an environmental movement and there is a social justice movement. If they could truly become one movement the transformation would be unimaginable. When a black child in Oakland winces at the thought of an ancient tree being cut down in northern California, and when an ex logger in northern California winces at the thought of a teenager, a black teenager in Oakland, being cut down on those streets, then we’ll know that day has arrived.
" Could Western civilization's oldest ethical instructions of the Golden Rule hold acute relevance to our planetary environmental crisis? Could restoring respect for human beings be the key to restoring the health of the planet? Author Paul Hawken has been tracking the rapid proliferation of nonprofit, non-governmental organizations around the world. It boils down to this: Taking care of nature means taking care of people, and taking care of people means taking care of nature. New Plastic ‘Zeoform’ Turns Hemp Into Almost Anything. What if todays plastics could be made from materials that were not only sustainable but non toxic? Today, our plastics are made from oil which means not only are we putting toxic chemicals into our atmosphere, but we are also filling our environment with products that cannot bio-degrade.
A new company out of Australia has created a promising new product called Zeoform and it is made only from water and cellulose take from hemp plants. This means their plastic is not only eco-friendly in production but is also biodegradable! As stated on their website: According to Zeoform, their product is very durable and relies only on the natural process of hydrogen bonding that takes place when cellulose fibres are mixed with water.
No glue or bonding material is necessary because the bond created is already so strong. The final material can be formed into almost anything and can be cut, routed, machined, drilled, screwed, nailed and glued in the same way wood and wood composites can be. Source: Wake Up Call: End the Nightmare of Consumption. ‘Water Man of India’ Makes Rivers Flow Again. Study Reveals the Sad Truth: There Are Only Two Truly Intact Forests Left on Earth. These 14 Photos Capture How Polluted China Has Become, And It’s Terrifying… This Traffic Jam Was Stuck In Belgium Forest For Over 70 Years. The Radioactive Man Who Returned To Fukushima To Feed The Animals That Everyone Else Left Behind. Cursed by Coal: Mining the Navajo Nation. An Animated History of Taker Culture in 4 Minutes.
You Should See What This Woman Sees Every Day. It Is Messed Up! 7 ways for Modern Society to Reconnect with Nature. Hermann Hesse on What Trees Teach Us About Belonging and Life. This Hypnotizing Macro Timelapse Of Exotic Corals Will Take Your Breath Away. Plants Have Memories: The Spiritual Case Against Agricultural Manipulation. Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest.