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Copenhagen Talks Better Off Without US Version of Climate Action

Tuesday, 13 October 2009 00:00 Sandy LeonVest
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ImageIf conventional media wisdom is to be believed, President Obama's top climate and energy adviser Carol Browner's admission in early October that there will be no climate legislation coming out of Congress this year pretty much dooms the upcoming UN climate talks in Copenhagen.
Last Updated on Monday, 12 October 2009 01:05
 

New Study Asserts Climate Change Will Increase Conflicts in Africa

Tuesday, 01 December 2009 11:41 Cyril Mychalejko
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Darfur just may be the tip of the melting iceberg. A new study suggests that if world leaders fail to reach a meaningful agreement in Copenhagen to curb climate change Africa will be ravaged by more wars and corpses in the coming decades.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 December 2009 11:43
 

Environment and Food in Haiti: Two Crises, One Solution

Wednesday, 26 May 2010 00:00 Beverly Bell
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In this interview, Haitian peasant movement leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste discusses the role that agriculture can play in Haiti in addressing both the environmental and food crises. The solutions he and many other Haitians propose reside in part in one set of policies and programs which can restore land and other riches of nature, and another set which can protect small-scale, sustainable agricultural production from agribusiness.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 May 2010 22:36
 

Video: Vermonters Say "No More War in Afghanistan!"

Wednesday, 16 December 2009 13:26 Sam Mayfield
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Joseph Gainza, VT Action for Peace
In Burlington, Vermont over 100 people gathered on December 12 to say "No more war in Afghanistan" and to denounce Barack Obama's 30,000 person troop surge to Afghanistan. The rally took place one day after 350 members of the Vermont National Guard departed for training before deployment to Afghanistan early next year. Vermont is sending more than 1,500 National Guards people to Afghanistan - the largest deployment of Vermont's National Guard since World War II.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 December 2009 17:44
 

Who's confused about alternative medicine?

Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:40 Robert Verkerk MSc DIC PhD
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Professor Edzard Ernst, the UK's first professor of complementary medicine, gets lots of exposure for his often overtly negative views on complementary medicine. He's become the media's favourite resource for a view on this controversial subject. Yesterday's report by Barbara Rowlands in the Daily Mail (Complementary medicines are useless and dangerous, says Britain's foremost expert, 12 December 2006) is par for the course.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:41
 
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