03 Environmental Degradation – Page 24 – Public Intelligence Blog

Depaving Cities, Undamming Rivers: How We're Undoing the Damage

The largest dam-removal project in history reached completion last fall, when excavators dredged the final tons of pulverized concrete from the Elwha River channel in Western Washington. Native fish, banished for 100 years from their historic spawning habitat, already were rediscovering the Elwha's newly accessible upper stretches. Within weeks of the final explosion in August, threatened bull trout and chinook salmon were spotted migrating beyond the rubble.

2015/03/122015/03/10

Mongoose: Plastic Not Being Recycled – China Refuses Further Trash Imports — Plastic Can Be Converted Into Fuel…

03 Environmental Degradation, Commerce, Corruption, Government

We are lied to about what is being done to plastic, and our government is unethical and ignorant about what can be done to convert plastic into fuel.

Think your plastic is being recycled? Think again.

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2015/03/072015/03/06

CounterPunch: Deep Green Resistance – Confronting Industrialism

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Ethics

If You Can't Clean It Up, Don't Make It

Confronting Industrialism

by DERRICK JENSEN

Q: What do you call someone who puts poison in the subways of Tokyo? A: A terrorist. Q: What do you call someone who puts poison (cyanide) into groundwater? A: A capitalist: CEO of a gold mining corporation. Read full article.

BOOK: Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

2015/02/132015/02/13

SchwartzReport: Lethal Pesticides – Neonicotinoids

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, 12 Water

Neonicotinoids have passed off the stage of media attention, but they have not gone away. This is both bad and good news. Bad for Santa Barbara, California, and other cities where industrial agriculture is practiced in the surround area. Good news in that those same cities are finally being forced to address this issue. Perhaps finally the death — in all sense of that word — grip of the chemical companies is loosening, at least at the local level.

‘Neonic’ Poison Found Throughout City

Creeks Division Testing After Rains Discovers Insecticide Fatal to Bees

2015/02/022015/02/02

Seeking Eagle Scout Candidates in Fairfax

03 Environmental Degradation, Civil Society, Earth Intelligence, Ethics

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Trailkeepers is a new program being piloted by a new non-profit (StreamTrails.org) in Fairfax County. It brings together Scouts, hikers, cyclists, and horseback riders to elevate the stream trails, now a neglected asset, to co-equal status with the more formal trails where taxpayer dollars fund manpower, equipment, and improvement. The core concept is simple: those using the stream trails nominate needed bridges, obstacles, heavy litter (rubber tires, for example); Scouts (and others) do the volunteer work; and the Park Authority, which is in the middle of a Needs Assessment, changes its policies to respect citizen needs while providing the necessary oversight for insurance, legal, and safety in the public interest (under the old policies, footbridges built by citizens are an encroachment subject to destruction at taxpayer expense).

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2015/02/02

SchwartzReport: Is Fracking Really Dying?

03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy

The corporate control of the U.S. Congress, and many state legislatures, may not be enough to protect the Fracking component of the carbon energy industry. Non-carbon energy and falling oil prices have combined to strongly and negatively impact this toxic and dangerous technology. I think this is very good news.

Is Fracking Really Dying?

2015/01/26

Wes Thomas: 12 Ways to Kill Monsanto

01 Agriculture, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Government

Consumer Self-Defense: 12 Ways to Drive GMOs and Roundup off the Market

Given the current barrage of pro-GMO propaganda in the mass media, “GMO-Free” proponents need to put far greater emphasis on the fact that it isn’t just the imprecise and unpredictable nature of gene-splicing itself—a process that produces toxin and allergens, and shuts down essential gene functions—that threatens human health and the environment. The billions of pounds of systemic toxic pesticides (herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides), especially Roundup, that are used on GMO and so-called conventional crops, are equally, if not more, hazardous to human health and the environment.These systemic agro-toxins, for the most part, cannot be washed off before eating.

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SchwartzReport: Undamming Rivers…