Archive for May, 2010

• 5 Reasons Why Pesticides are Bad

  At this point, most people are at least somewhat aware that pesticides cause a great deal of environmental harm. Less well known are the effects pesticides have on individual and public health. Here, I give you 5 compelling reasons to …

• Caroline Lucas becomes the first green MP in UK parliament

  It’s now confirmed! Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, will become the first green MP in the UK parliament after the general election this past Thursday. The people in the constituency of Brighton Pavillion voted …

• Gulf Oil Spills Onto Political Shores

  In the wake of such an enormous disaster that is the Gulf Oil spill, an unspeakable crime against living ecosystems, political leaders are getting a jostle. In the words of James Boyce: As the greatest domestic environmental disaster of this …

• Greenpeace: Obama must shelve Arctic drilling plans, call for offshore moratorium

  In light of the ongoing offshore oil drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico Greenpeace is demanding that President Barack Obama cancels Arctic drilling plans and calls for an offshore moratorium. The Deepwater Horizon accident has resulted in eleven lives …

• Alternative summit on environment and people held in Bolivia

  Bolivian President Evo Morales earlier this year called for an international conference to deal with the structural causes of climate change and to propose “alternative models” for humans to live in harmony with the natural world. The First World People’s …