Tax Justice Network: That War on Drugs
“The toughest laws created the toughest criminals. The only thing we’re doing is increasing the violence. And at this point, where we are now, only…
2024
ACLU: Pardon Me?!??
The Global Gag Rule is making a comeback?
Republicans in Congress are refusing to re-authorize AIDS funding abroad unless the global gag rule is incorporated into the legislation. Program goes into the origin…
Is Wireless tech making you sick?
Green Street News: Is Wireless Tech Making You Sick? with Ruth Moss and Dr. Kent Chamberlin This week on Green Street News, Patti and Doug talk…
Ecojustice: Restoring Landscape
Restoring the Landscape: Indigenized Futures & the Land Back Movement First we share a report from Yurok country, in the Pacific Northwest. The largest dam…
Scientists taking responsibility for good and bad applications
When does a scientist become a “Good German” and work for the Nazis?
Mining: Documenting the Undocumented
A warming world is pushing us off the snow cliff. Snow drought is increasing. Dry fire-filled summers with low rivers and crop loss surely follow….
Why fertilizer from sewage is a bad idea
New York Sierra Club’s Tracy Frisch talks about the “forever” chemicals known as PFAS, and why spreading sewage sludge on farmland, as recently recommended by…
Ecojustice: How to Embrace our Wild Predatory Relatives
In this industrialized country, we have had a war on wild what we call “predators,” helicopter gunners shooting wolves to protect caribou herds in Alaska,…
Students Reported; the World Listened
A civil liberties minute from the ACLU
Civility in the legislative process is a value worth preserving
A civil liberties minute from the ACLU.
Understanding Disruption, Convergence, System Change
We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential transformation of human civilization in history, a transformation every bit as significant as the…
Allan Savory: “I may be dreaming, but that has never stopped me before.”
“We’ve made great progress this year regenerating the world’s grasslands, as this report makes clear, but the mountain we’re climbing got steeper. The human population…
Managing Humans to Manage the Wild
As of February 2023, the Center for Biological Diversity stated that 40% of U.S. wildlife and ecosystems are imperiled. A new report on the status…
No laughing matter: Comedy and free expression
There’s nothing funny about the world of free expression. Or so you might think. Index on Censorship is kicking off the New Year by immersing…
Restorative and Regenerative Agriculture
Tony Rinaudo is an Australian agronomist, who is widely known as the forest maker. Having lived and worked in African countries for several decades, he…
The Russian Dissident and Eco Justice Warrior
Vladimir Slivyak is one of Russia’s most committed and knowledgeable environmentalists, who has been spearheading important grassroots campaigns against environmentally damaging practices for decades. He…
Communities taking back their power
Humanity stands at the brink of global environmental and economic collapse. We have pinned our future to an economic system that centralizes power in fewer…