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From our desert valleys to spectacular canyons, forests, lakes, rivers and streams, our lands are a magnificent reminder of our Heavenly Father’s Creation. Mormons understand the importance of wilderness. Throughout the stories recorded in the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price, people and prophets have sought spiritual guidance, received inspiration …
By Emma Penrod- published 03/27/2018 in the Salt Lake Tribune’s LDS Conference edition insert There are many words Farmington resident Alicia Connell might use to describe herself. Mormon. Mother. Realtor. But up until a few years ago, ”environmental activist” didn’t seem to fit. “It’s not that it was told to me by the church, that …
New analysis finds near-unanimous support of Bears Ears and other national monuments as public comment period closes, including a 9‑to‑1 margin among Utahns by Aaron Weiss- Media Director for Center for Western Priorities- published July 10, 2017 in Medium Corporation’s Westwise online publication With just hours remaining in President Trump’s 60-day public comment period reviewing 21 years of …
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by Ty Markham, Chair of MESA- posted on January 4, 2018 A few months ago in October (2017), as part of MESA’s campaign to support Utah’s Department of Environmental Quality (the DEQ’s) new rules on monitoring, reporting and repairing of toxic leaks at well sites, MESA created a petition expressing support of the new rules. …
As God’s earthly stewards we must protect His gift of divine creation! Support Clean Air! by Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance Tell the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) you support clean air standards. Heavenly Father has made us accountable for protecting and preserving our earthly home for future generations. But rising smog levels brought on …
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This is a guest post to the PLOS Paleontology Community by guest blogger Robert Gay. Rob is the Curator of Education at the Museum of Western Colorado, and also frequently contributes to the blog Prehistoric Pub. He can be found on Twitter @Paleorob. Thank you, Rob, for contributing to the PLOS Paleo Community! The opinions and views expressed herein are those of the author and …
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February 9, 2017 Dear Hon. Zinke, Leader McConnell, Leader Schumer, Speaker Ryan, and Leader Pelosi: I am writing on behalf of Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance (AKA: “MESA”), a 501-c3 non-profit registered in Utah which I chair. MESA represents the views of LDS Church members and followers in Utah and across the nation. We connect with …
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Over the past few years, the U.S. Climate Network and Oxfam have been tracking nationwide grassroots organizations and uprisings focused on local & global climate issues. The two organizations are spearheading an effort to awaken members of Congress to the extent of this groundswell calling for swift action to confront the urgent and real dangers …
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By: The Associated Press Published: January 14, 2016 Ty Markham of the Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance speaks in front of the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. Markham pointed to theology as justification for opening southern Utah lands for Mexican gray wolf recovery. Her group believes the wolves play a key …
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The article is an interview by Democracy Now’s host, Amy Goodman, with Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and professor of energy and climate change at the Univ. of Manchester. The interview is printed below, but can be viewed directly at this link: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/8/top_climate_expert_crisis_is_worse Ahead of the U.N. climate change summit …
A new study attempts the first tally of those driving the peculiarly American strain of climate change denial. by Eric Roston- November 30, 2015 Bloomberg Business The American public has turned away from outright denial of climate change. Sixty-three percent of adults describe the problem as “serious” in the latest opinion poll from the Washington Post and ABC News, a dip from …
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By Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent, BBC News, Paris (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34948805) The Pope’s closest adviser on ecology has urged Catholics to join global climate marches planned for Sunday. In an internal letter to bishops, Cardinal Peter Turkson says people should be “encouraged” to exercise their “ecological citizenship”. The letter says that climate negotiators meeting in Paris need to …
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Researchers suggest warming oceans maybe releasing giant plumes of harmful methane that fuel climate change. What is the US doing to deal with methane? By Beatrice Gitau, Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 17, 2015 Giant plumes of methane gas appear to be bubbling up off the Pacific Northwest coast. This is according to a new study which suggests warming ocean …
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Mining uranium, the fuel for nuclear reactors, is a dirty business. Following World War II, mining companies extracted millions of tons of uranium from Navajo tribal lands in the West, contaminating homes and water supplies in the process. It went on for decades, and Navajo miners developed lung cancer at very high rates. Today, even …
Hundreds of thousands of migrants are seeking refuge in Europe, but millions more will be displaced as the climate warms. Peter Mellgard Associate Editor, The WorldPost Posted: 09/05/2015 12:34 PM EDT | Edited: 09/05/2015 12:37 PM EDT CREDIT: REBECCA BLACKWELL/ASSOCIATED PRESS2-year-old Aliou Seyni Diallo eats dry couscous given to him by a neighbor, after he collapsed in tears …
It isn’t the best of times for the American Arctic and let me explain why. The world is in the midst of an oil glut. In the last year, oil prices bottomed out before rising modestly. A NASA study just offered the news that a massive ice shelf in Antarctica, half the size of Rhode Island, will disintegrate by …
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By Joyce Nelson Any day now Pope Francis, leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, will be issuing a rare papal Encyclical on climate change and the environment. The Encyclical will apparently be urging all Catholics to take action against climate change. It will be sent to 5,000 Catholic bishops and 400,000 priests around …
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By Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director, Center for Food Safety This article was originally published on The Huffington Post, May 4, 2015. “A single corn kernel coated with a neonicotinoid can kill a song bird.” As a long time environmental lawyer and campaigner, I should not have been stunned by that fact but I was. Shaking …
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Pope Francis was a key player in thawing relations between the US and Cuba. Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty Images The Pontiff hopes to inspire action at next year’s UN meeting in Paris in December after visits to Philippines and New York Article by John Vidal- published in The Guardian-US edition–December 27, 2014 He has been called …
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May 16, 2014 by Joshua Holland (article posted at http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/16/eight-pseudo-scientific-climate-claims-debunked-by-real-scientists/) Most people who deny that human activity is warming the planet just dismiss a massive body of scientific evidence as a big hoax. But there’s a more sophisticated set of climate “skeptics” who make arguments that, at least to the lay ear, sound like they’re …
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CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” — Edward Abbey By Joe Romm for Think Progress – posted Oct. 14, 2014 FDR famously saved capitalism from itself, from its worst excesses and most venal practitioners. Now eight decades later, scientists, environmentalists, and progressives are in a similar position. Unchecked capitalism is a Ponzi scheme that …
by Rob Hopkins, Asher Miller September 30, 2013 Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Post-Growth Economics and Community Resilience In this provocative paper, PCI Executive Director Asher Miller and Transition Movement Founder (and PCI Fellow) Rob Hopkins make a convincing case for why the environmental community must embrace post-growth economics and community resilience in their efforts to address the climate crisis. Executive …
by David Roberts- October 3, 2014- GRIST http://grist.org/climate-energy/no-we-should-not-abandon-the-2c-target/ On Wednesday, academics David G. Victor and Charles F. Kennel published a paper in Nature arguing that the international community should abandon the long-held, much-discussed target of limiting global average temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius or less. In its place, they propose a more finely …
Congress should boost worker ownership over corporate subsidies September 11, 2014 6:00AM ET by Matthew Harwood When American politicians and commentators discuss inequality and poverty, they do so almost exclusively in ways that do little to empower workers. Instead the debates typically focus on what government can do in a top-down fashion to either diminish inequality …
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Four decades after the book was published, Limit to Growth’s forecasts have been vindicated by new Australian research. Expect the early stages of global collapse to start appearing soon By Graham Turner and Cathy Alexander- The Guardian– Sept. 1, 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits-to-growth-was-right-new-research-shows-were-nearing-collapse Piles of crushed cars at a metal recycling site in Belfast, Northern Ireland.Photograph: Alamy …
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By Mark D. Thomas In July 1843, Joseph Smith delivered a series of remarkable sermons outlining what he called the three Fundamental Principles of Mormonism. On Sunday, the 9th, he introduced the first of these three: “One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from where it may.”1 …
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By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | News Analysis http://truth-out.org/news/item/25051-dahr-jamail-the-brink-of-mass-extinction “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” – Native American proverb March through June 2014 were the hottest on record globally, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. In May – officially the hottest May on record globally – the average temperature of the …
By Mark Kinver, Environment reporter, BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28132555 The invasive non-native Australian fern tree stands out against the canopy of the native forest species. US conservationists and a satellite imagery company have teamed up to use the power of crowdsourcing to halt the spread of destructive invasive plants. Species such as the Australian tree …
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You can actually be better off, healthier and happier with less consumption, says Munasinghe. And it’s not just rich countries that need to change, he told Noah Sachs – poor countries too must develop sustainably, or the Earth’s resources will simply run out. http://www.theecologist.org/Interviews/2408513/confronting_consumption_an_interview_with_mohan_munasinghe.html Mohan Munasinghe shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as Vice-Chair of …
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By Thom Kenworthy- JUNE 19, 2014 AT 9:54 AM http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/19/3447621/dust-on-snow-colorado/ Dust on snow in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. CREDIT: JEFFREY DEEMS GOLDEN, COLORADO — The deep snow cover in Colorado’s mountains, well above average this year everywhere except the southern part of the state, is melting and running off veryquickly in June. It’s an …
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http://environews.tv/evangelical-and-mormon-groups-now-calling-for-climate-action/ Evangelical and Mormon Groups Now Calling for Climate Action bureau EnviroNews DC News Bureau, by Shad Engkilterra on June 16, 2014 — Washington D.C. — Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, has called for people of faith to search their scriptures and find out what God wants for …
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Natural and social scientists develop new model of how ‘perfect storm’ of crises could unravel global system This Nasa Earth Observatory image shows a storm system circling around an area of extreme low pressure in 2010, which many scientists attribute to climate change. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight …
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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-05/pine-beetles-chew-up-forests-local-economies-in-western-u-dot-s Photograph by Brian Howell/USFS Rocky Mountain Region Colorado’s Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest The western U.S., already suffering an historic drought, is also battling another Old Testament-worthy plague: a tiny insect with a monster appetite. Pine beetles, each the size of a grain of rice, are obliterating forests, ravaging towns, draining city budgets, and threatening …
Blog: kevinanderson.info Comment on climate June 2014: A response to the US draft mandate to cut carbon emissions from its power sector by 30% by 2030 (c.f. 2005) by Kevin Anderson1 and Dr. Maria Sharmina2 Professor of energy and climate change Deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for climate change research Research Associate Tyndall Centre for …
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“Leila Project”, billed as a ‘library of things’, has proved so popular it has spawned similar initiatives across the country. By Philip Ottermann – The Guardian Nikolai Wolfert, who started the Leila ‘borrowing shop’ in Berlin, says drills are among the most popular items. Photograph: Christian Jungeblodt The most popular items in Berlin’s first “borrowing …
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Why collapse and salvation are hard to distinguish from each other. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian- 28th May 2014 Let us imagine that in 3030BC the total possessions of the people of Egypt filled one cubic metre. Let us propose that these possessions grew by 4.5% a year. How big would that stash …
By Laurie Guevara-Stone- April 27, 2014 (at http://www.popularresistance.org/solar-cooperatives-are-on-the-rise/) While many people associate cooperatives with a place for hippies to buy organic food, the cooperative movement has actually grown far and wide, creating sustainable enterprises that generate jobs and strengthen local economies. Today, there are nearly 30,000 cooperatives in the U.S., with more than 100 million …
By Kiley Kroh – Published in Climate Progress- April 14, 2014 On a recent Washington, DC evening, a few hundred people gathered to catch a sneak peak of Showtime’s new star-studded series on climate change. The surprisingly action-packed first episode of “Years Of Living Dangerously” featured big names doing bigger things: In one scene, Harrison …
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By Brandon Baker, published in Ecowatch News Report on April 16, 2014 Because natural gas has less carbon than dirty coal, gas producers and even the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have applauded it as a cleaner alternative. Hopefully, a joint study from researchers at two universities will change that. Purdue and Cornell …
(photo by Scott Myers; the following information was published by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, April 13, 2014) On April 9, 2014, the Grand County Council Public Lands Working Committee identified three alternative proposals, along with maps, for long term designations of public lands in Grand County, as part of Representative Rob Bishop’s proposed “Land …
By Philip Ross, Published in International Business Times , April 12, 2014 (see http://www.ibtimes.com/greenland-ice-sheet-samples-show-us-clean-air-act-had-dramatic-impact-air-pollution-1570931) The Greenland ice sheet covers roughly 80 percent of the surface of the island. C ore samples of its ice can provide clues about changes in the chemical makeup of Earth’s atmosphere. Greenland’s ice sheet is like a time capsule that …
By JUSTIN GILLIS – published in the NY Times, March 30, 2014 YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control. The report by …
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The mining of Canada’s tar sands has destroyed large areas of sensitive wetlands in Alberta. Oil sands companies have vowed to reclaim this land, but little restoration has occurred so far and many scientists say it is virtually impossible to rebuild these complex ecosystems. by Ed Struzik When Alberta’s oil sands industry marked its 40th …
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By the MESA advisory and executive committees, March 27, 2014 It is no longer sufficient to merely protest “supply side” assaults on the environment such as coal-fired power plants, fracking, tar sands & oil shale in Utah, the Keystone XL pipeline, nuclear power on the Green River. All these actions are necessary and MESA supports …
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By Katherine Martinko, published in Living Heath, March 24, 2014 (see http://www.treehugger.com/health/new-china-study-reveals-link-between-air-pollution-and-genetic-mutation-babies.html) CC BY 2.0 Kevin Spooley Developing fetuses are extremely vulnerable to the harmful effects of environmental pollution. As the cells of major organs develop during the first trimester, genetic mutations can occur that are impossible to reverse. A new study conducted by …
It’s time we stop pretending that inequality and environmental decline are two separate problems by Annie Leonard – published in Earth Island Journal and SALON Here’s the tension: Yes, many people need more resources to meet basic levels of health and security. At the same time, humanity is consuming too much. If our strategy to …
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Natural and social scientists develop new model of how ‘perfect storm’ of crises could unravel global system by Nafeez Ahmed, published in “Earth Insight” hosted by The Guardian- March 16,2014 This Nasa Earth Observatory image shows a storm system circling around an area of extreme low pressure in 2010, which many scientists attribute to climate …
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Feeling anxious about life in a broken economy on a strained planet? Turn despair into action. by Robert Jensen, published in Love and the Apocalypse in the Summer 2013 issue of YES! Magazine In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher attended a protest at a federal auction of drilling rights to Utah wilderness lands. He found a …
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By Herman Daly Published March 3, 2014 in The Daly News by Center for Advancement of the Steady-State Economy Dr. Paul Brand was the son of British missionary parents in South India where he grew up. He returned to England to study medicine, then went back to take care of people with leprosy in India, …
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ucla-inst-of-the-environment-and-sustainability/air-pollution-its-complic_b_4776673.html By Ashley Verhines (published in Huffington Post on Feb.12, 2014) Many recent studies have shown that air pollution levels and income levels are linked. Poorer communities suffer from bad air more than wealthy communities. A recent study by UCLA researchers revealed some complications in this correlation, but found that air pollution is still about …
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The apocalypse has a new date: 2048. That’s when the world’s oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an international team of ecologists and economists. The cause: the disappearance of species due to overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. The study by Boris Worm, PhD, of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, — with …
By Bill McKibben, published in Rolling Stone- July 19, 2012 (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719#ixzz2shqcXF00) If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven’t convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest …
By Christina Sarich, Nation of Change, Published: Friday 7 February 2014 Welcome to the future, its already here. Solar employs and nuclear destroys; we have ample evidence of that now, and with the annual U.S. solar jobs census we now have proof that solar power isn’t just providing energy, without destroying our oceans and contaminating …
By Ari Phillips- Published in Climate Progress, Jan 28, 2014 (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/28/3214571/black-carbon-emissions-worse-thought/) A layer of haze fills China’s Sichuan Basin on January 23, 2014.CREDIT: NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY A new study has found that global estimates of black carbon emissions in certain areas of India and China could be two to three more times concentrated than previously …
(Published By Sierra Club, January 2014) https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2014-1-january-february/taste-test/taste-test/five-foods-are-killing-planet We’ll let Pulitzer Prize–winning food critic Jonathan Gold get on his soapbox for this one: “People need to stop eating BLUEFIN TUNA. Period. It’ll be difficult because bluefin is uncommonly delicious and tends to be served at high-end sushi bars, where the fashion is to say ‘omakase‘ and …
by DAVE LINDORFF (Published in “CounterPunch” Jan. 23, 2014– http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/20/washington-and-the-oil-industry-know-the-truth-about-climate-change/) Climate skeptics in Congress, and oil and coal industry lobbyists like the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Coal Council (ACC) may be preventing any significant action in the US on reducing this country’s emissions of carbon into the atmosphere, but at the Pentagon, …
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Senior figures from industry, military and politics explore risks of financial chaos, oil depletion and climate catastrophe By Nafeez Ahmed – The Guardian, January 17, 2014 A conference sponsored by a US military official convened experts in Washington DC and London warning that continued dependence on fossil fuels puts the world at risk of an …
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By Justin Gillis- New York Times, Jan 16, 2014 (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/science/earth/un-says-lag-in-confronting-climate-woes-will-be-costly.html) Nations have so dragged their feet in battling climate change that the situation has grown critical and the risk of severe economic disruption is rising, according to a draft United Nations report. Another 15 years of failure to limit carbon emissions could make the problem …
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By Emily Atkin- published in EcoNews, Jan 7, 2014- (see https://www.ecowatch.com/why-the-polar-vortex-does-not-disprove-global-warming-1881848617.html) On Sunday night, a reporter for The Weather Channel stood in a Minnesota snowstorm, talking about local efforts to move homeless children into heated shelters. “How cold is it supposed to get?” the anchor, back in the studio, asked. The reporter replied: “Colder than …
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Written by Marjorie McCloy for The Catalyst Magazine, Jan. 6, 2013. In late October I was walking in my leafy 9th and 9th neighborhood when my attention was snagged by a good-looking guy walking toward the sidewalk. He was carrying something, but since I was looking at him I didn’t notice what it was. Then …
SMITHSONIAN.COM’s Special Report: Energy Innovation – published Dec. 27, 2013 2013 was a great year for science. We discovered hundreds of exoplanets, found yet more evidence of ancient water on Mars and learned all about our species’ own evolution. But it’s important to remember that, in terms of the long-term survival of both our species …
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By Brian Moench, MD- published in Salt Lake Tribune Jan 4, 2014 (see http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/57344144-82/mexico-pollution-lake-moench.html.csp?page=1) Salt Lake City exists in a high altitude bowl surrounded by mountains, making us more vulnerable to pollution build up than other major cities. We all get that. Too often in response, we hear, “Well there’s not much we can do …
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By Peter Moskowitz (Occupy.Com/News Report, Jan. 1, 2013) orig. publ. by Aljazeera America. Scientists have found a nearly 7,500-square-mile ring of land and water contaminated by mercury surrounding the tar sands in Alberta, where energy companies are producing oil and shipping it throughout Canada and the U.S. Government scientists are preparing to publish a report …
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By EDUARDO PORTER, published in NYTimes- December 24, 2013 It is probably a safe bet that very few Americans unwrapping a brand-new iPhone left under their Christmas tree are thinking about its impact on the global climate. I have some good news for them, and some bad. No, Apple hasn’t managed to produce the device …
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By Sarah Goodyear, published in Next City 12/19/13 (see http://nextcity.org/infrastructure/entry/the-urban-rural-water-wars-of-nevada) Seven states draw water from the Colorado River. Nevada’s take is only 300,000 acre feet, or about 2 percent. Credit:Flickr user K. Oliver Las Vegas has a water problem. Ninety percent of the city’s water comes from the Colorado River, specifically the reservoir at Lake …
Dec. 22, 2013 — Climate change has not been strongly influenced by variations in heat from the sun, a new scientific study shows. (reprinted by Science News, Dec. 22, 2013- see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131222161813.htm) The findings overturn a widely held scientific view that lengthy periods of warm and cold weather in the past might have been caused …
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By Kiley Krow, News Investigation (published Dec.23, 2013) http://www.nationofchange.org/conservative-donors-pump-money-climate-denying-groups-study-finds-1387813573 Organizations that actively block efforts to address climate change are funded by a large network of conservative donors to the tune of nearly $1 billion a year, according to the first in-depth study into the dark money that fuels the denial effort. The study, published Friday …
Join hands to support clean air in Utah! On Saturday- January 25th bring your voices, your signs, and wear your gas masks to the the state capitol steps to show our legislators & governor that we demand effective action to clean up our air in Utah. Stay tuned for more details to come soon. Keep …
by Jana Richman (published in the Examiner November 22, 2013 http://www.examiner.com/article/oil-exploration-escalante-utah) During the week of November 7, 2013, employees from a company with offices in Pennsylvania and Colorado, Front Runner Seismic, showed up in the small town of Escalante, Utah, (pop. 800), and quietly went about their business, knocking on doors, offering contracts of various …
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by Zach Carter (published in Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/08/tpp-trade-agreement_n_4409211.html) WASHINGTON — The Obama administration appears to have almost no international support for controversial new trade standards that would grant radical new political powers to corporations, increase the cost of prescription medications and restrict bank regulation, according to two internal memos obtained by The Huffington Post. …
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by Judy Fahys- first published June 7,2013 in Salt Lake Tribune (see http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56427415-78/utah-pollution-winter-wood.html.csp) Even though there might be just a few wood stoves and fireplaces pumping out smoke on northern Utah’s smoggy winter days, they are having a huge impact on air quality. In fact, wood stoves and fireplaces, coupled with exhaust from cooking grills, …
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Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions. NewStatesman- Oct. 31, 2013 (see http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/science-says-revolt) Waste land: large-scale irrigation strips nutrients from the soil, scars the landscape and could alter climatic conditions beyond repair. Image: Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas …
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By Coral Davenport, published Dec. 5, 2013 in the New York Times WASHINGTON — More than two dozen of the nation’s biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the government will force them to pay a price for carbon pollution as a way to control …
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Chevron, Exxon and BP among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age, figures show Article by Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent published in The Guardian, Wednesday 20 November 2013 11.07 EST The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly …
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By James Timarco of YES! Magazine When negotiators from the 12 countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership gathered this week in Salt Lake City, Utah, they were met by the “TPP Welcoming Committee,” a coalition of environmental, social justice, and labor groups who did their best to show that there is opposition to the deal in …
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For the most informative website, see: http://www.exposethetpp.org/ See article here from the website: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Empower Corporations to Attack U.S. Policies in Foreign Tribunals and Demand Taxpayer Compensation for Our Environmental, Health and Other Laws A leaked text revealed that TPP would include and even expand the controversial system of extreme corporate privileges …
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Gar Alperovitz | October 8, 2013 A baker takes freshly-baked bread from the oven at King Arthur Flour Co., a worker-owned business in Norwich, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot) Everyone knows the United States faces enormous challenges: unemployment, poverty, global warming, environmental decay—to say nothing of whole cities that have essentially been thrown away. We know …
By Michele Nash-Hoff (published on Huffington Post- 11-14-13) Proponents say that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement would be a platform for economic integration and government deregulation for nations surrounding the Pacific Rim and facilitate free trade to counter China’s financial influence in Asia and the Pacific. The negotiating parties include Australia, Brunei, Canada, …
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A strong heritage of stewardship of the earth and reverence for all of God’s creations is found in the scriptures and the writings and statements of Church leaders. Hebrews 1:1-2 1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last …