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Environmental Degradation

Disorder on the Border: Trashing the Law in the Name of Immigration Deterrence

Randall Amster | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Humanitarian, Grassroots, Department of Interior, No More Deaths Border, Immigration, Border Wall, Humanitarian Aid, Deterrence, Faith-Based, Environmental Degradation, Human Rights, Criminal Justice System, Water, Illegal Immigrants, Doctrine of Necessity, Hurricane Katrina, Alice's Restaurant, Sierra Club, Litter, Politics News
Randall Amster

The strategy of deterrence that drives both border enforcement and crackdowns on humanitarians is fundamentally flawed.

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Protecting the Earth's Blue Heart

Sylvia Earle | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Point Reyes Headlands, Ocean Policy Task Force, Environmental Degradation, Fish & Game Commission, Marine Life Protection Act, Farallon Islands, Sustainable Fishing, Ocean-Pollution, Obama Administration, Fishing, Oceans, Fisheries, Overfishing, Green News
Sylvia Earle

Obama's new ocean policy task force, launched in June, is exactly what is needed: a coherent national policy based on science and informed by local economic interests.

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Climate Change and Iraq

James Denselow | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Urbanization, Sandstorms, Desertification, Environmental Degradation, World Bank, Food-Insecurity, Turkey Dam, Green News
James Denselow

A forgotten story is how the destruction and painfully slow reconstruction of the Iraq state is occurring against the backdrop of a deteriorating natural environment.

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Like a Diamond in the Sky

David Horton | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Global Warming, Environmental Degradation, Mountaintop Removal, Climate Crisis, Deforestation, Green News
David Horton

Those who deny climate change believe that no environmental issue, no conservation cause, no piece of the natural world, must ever be allowed to get in the way of big profits for big business.

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Ecoflation -- Business Beware

Diane Francis | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Green, Environment, Cap and Trade, Environmental Degradation, Green Living, Carbon Taxes, Green Energy, Cap-and-Trade, Carbon Sequestration, Reuters, Business News
Diane Francis

Consumers will pay more for everything, a form of green inflation, notably in developed countries where environmental activists and laws are demanding responsiveness to concerns.

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Why Countries Like Haiti Matter to the Well-Being of Everyday Americans

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Environmental Degradation, Poverty, Marshall Plan, Illegal Drugs, Third World, Deforestation, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Breaking News, Immigration, International Security, Development, Un, International Republican Institute, Economic Development, Haiti, Barack Obama, World News
Robert Creamer

The world economy is not a zero sum game. For us to be richer, someone else doesn't have to be poorer. In fact just the opposite is true.

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The Vision to Stay Green

Tri Robinson | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Degradation, Economic Crisis, California Environmental Quality Act, Creating Jobs, Environment, Green Vision, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Haiti, Ceqa, Floresta, Green News
Tri Robinson

We don't need to relegate people to poverty just for the sake of saving some trees. Pitting those two things against one another is a false choice.

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Tim DeChristopher Reinvents the Greenbuck in Utah

Jerry Cope | Posted 02.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Gas, Environmental Degradation, Tim Dechristopher, Bush Administration, Federal Land Lease, Utah Wilderness, Environment, Natural Gas, Wilderness, Federal Land, BLM Auction, Pat Shea, Utah, Civil Disobediance, bidder70, Blm, Nrdc, Anthropogenic, Sierra Club, Wwf, Green News
Jerry Cope

Deforestation, chemical pollution in the world's oceans, biological diversity, species extinction, and greenhouse gas emissions are detrimental to life on Earth as we know it.

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