12.30.07
Posted in Radio at 9:29 pm by Elaine
Breakdown or Breakthrough the critical junction in history with Ervin Laszlo, author of 47 books, founder/President of the Club of Budapest, co-chair of the World Wisdom Council and editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution. He predicts we have seven years to avoid global collapse and to promote worldwide renewal.
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Posted in News at 9:17 pm by Elaine
Bush Administration Plans to Remove Protection from Colorado’s National Forests
Forest Service Announces Plan To Remove Protection From Roadless Areas
DENVER (December 26, 2007) – The Bush administration revealed today its intentions to remove existing legal protections from over 4.4 million acres of roadless areas in the national forests of Colorado. The Forest Service formally announced that it is beginning a process to establish a new rule for managing Colorado’s roadless areas. The public was given 60 days to submit comments.
The proposal would completely remove roadless protections from approximately 300,000 acres of wild forestlands, and weaken them for the remaining 4.1 million acres. The announcement follows on the heels of last week’s similar announcement that the Forest Service will begin consideration of a plan to open millions of roadless acres in Idaho to industrial development and road building.
“The Bush administration’s actions in Colorado will turn over some of America’s most pristine wildlands to industry exploitation,” said Amy Mall, senior policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “This is part of the administration’s latest strategy to erode, state by state, the protections that safeguard our public forests.
“First Idaho, now Colorado, and in a few short weeks the Forest Service plans to release a new management plan allowing roadless area logging in Alaska’s Tongass rainforest, our largest national forest. The pattern is clear — the Bush Administration is trying to leave our most pristine forestlands open to corporate special interests — and it is doing it through death by a thousand cuts.
“The Bush Administration has spent almost seven years trying to undo the Roadless Rule. Now, while most people are home enjoying the holidays, the Forest Service is hard at work in a last effort to try to slice-up America’s wildlands one piece at a time.
“These wild areas represent our last, best places that must be preserved for the unique outdoor opportunities, clean drinking water, bountiful wildlife habitat, and sheer majesty they provide to local residents and visitors alike.
“Coloradans and Americans across the country want to make sure these forests are protected from the Bush administration’s last desperate attempts to help their timber, oil and gas, and mining buddies. If the administration succeeds in any of these states, our country stands to lose some of the most vibrant places within our national forests.”
The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national, nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has 1.2 million members and online activists, served from offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing.
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12.02.07
Posted in Radio at 3:58 pm by Elaine
Tuesday, December 3, 2007, 11AM PST, 1PM CST, 2PM EST.
David Korten, Co-founder, Yes! Magazine is an outspoken critic of global capitalism and sees promise for a brighter future in earth communities heightened awareness of social responsibility. Through healthy markets, community action in harmony with Mother Nature, righting the world of dysfunctional corporate structures will return the power to the people who are most affected by the myopic vision of multi-nationals desire to rule the world.
Korten is the author of When Corporations Rule The World, The Great Turning, From Empire to Earth Community and The Post-Corporate World, Life After Capitalism.
Tuesday, December 3, 2007, 11AM PST, 1PM CST, 2PM EST.
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Posted in News at 3:13 pm by Elaine
ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2007) — Scientists at the University of Leeds are turning low-grade sludge into high-value gas in a process which could make eco-friendly biodiesel even greener and more economical to produce.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0705-bus_of_the_future.htm
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Posted in News at 3:06 pm by Elaine
Astronomers at the University of Illinois have found the first clear evidence for a cradle in space where planets and moons form. The cradle, revealed in photographs taken with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, consists of a flattened envelope of gas and dust surrounding a young protostar.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071129141146.htm
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