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In the U.S. packaging for tobacco products will now be required to carry realistic disease warnings on them. The Department of Health and the Food and Drug Administration are working together in an attempt to lower the number of people who are dying every year from tobacco use; currently the annual death toll in the [...]
This week marks another example of the importance of grassroots pressure and non-violent direct action in effecting real environmental and social change. One of the many actions from last month’s monumental Appalacia Rising in Washington, D.C. was a sit-in of PNC Bank, which is the largest financier of mountain top destruction coal mining. A group [...]
Rain gardens have a strong and growing reputation among environmental advocates and some local governments as a cost-effective, successful method of beautifying communities and reducing water pollution. What are the rain garden facts most important for both types of communities to know? We asked Patricia Pennell, a leading rain garden advocate, to help us answer [...]
114 UK activists were suspected of “conspiring to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station,” the UK’s 3rd-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, and arrested “in a night-time police raid” at a school in Nottingham in April, 2009. 20 of these activists are going on trial this month. The activists are admitting that they intended to shut down [...]
OK, to clarify, the inaugural Prize for the Protection of the Environment from the Aristotle Onassis Public Benefit Foundation has been awarded to Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME)…. (I’m sure there are numerous other “environmental protection prizes” out there.) FoEME has a long history of working to protect the Jordan River and helping communities [...]
