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Texas Chainsaw Massacre : Austin Tree-Huggers Get Their Due!
The Rag Blog generally doesn’t publish news of a local Austin nature, but in this case: it was a great tree; it’s about time cedar-chopping developers got some comeuppance AND the whistleblowing good guy was our own Jim Retherford. Developer … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Criminal Justice, Environment, Home Developers, Texas
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Silver Lining Dept : The Upside of $4 Gas
Five Reasons to Love $4 GasJuly 16, 2008 Sure, it’s ruining the global economy and making everyone miserable, but there’s an underappreciated upside to the high price of oil. 1. The mass transit boom What’s happening: From 2000 to 2005, … Continue reading
Clear-Cut Logging: Not Such a Good Thing
The aerial photo of the bare slope and slide areas in the Stillman Creek drainage raised concerns at Weyerhaeuser, enough so that corporate officials did their own flyover, scouting landslides there and elsewhere in the Northwest. Photo: Steve Ringman, Seattle … Continue reading
The Court Decision Disappointed Even the Victors
Decisions Shut Door on Bush Clean-Air StepsBy Felicity Barringer / July 12, 2008 Any major steps by the Bush administration to control air pollution or reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases came to a dead end on Friday, the combined result … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Government
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Native Americans, Environmentalists : Thousands Gather in Washington
Dennis Banks organized the five month march to the White House.‘Longest Walk’ reaches Washingtonby Sally Art / July 11, 2008 WASHINGTON – Thousands of demonstrators are gathering in Washington DC after a five month long journey across America to draw … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, Native Americans, Social Action, Social Change
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Complex Underwater Eco-Systems at Peril
A fish swims among coral reefs off the Obhor coast, north of the Red Sea city of Jeddah. A third of reef-building corals worldwide are threatened with extinction due to climate change and water pollution, according to the first global … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Eco-Systems, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Oceans
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Carcinogens Found in Gulf Coast Trout, Catfish
Catfish, like this one caught Tuesday by Mark Arnett of Alvarado, are now on the state’s consumption warning list. Photo by Julio Cortez / Houston ChronicleTexas issues health warning on some Galveston Bay fishBy Allan Turner and Rosanna Ruiz / … Continue reading
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Tagged Cancer, Environment, EPA, Fishing, Oceans, pollution, Public Health, Texas
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SPORT : Sailing the Choked Waters
Chinese fishmen remove green algae from the sea on July 4, 2008 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. More than 1,000 boats and 5,000 fishmen have been mobilized to clean up green algae which has invaded the Olympic sailing venue. Photo by … Continue reading
The Earth: Love It or Lose It, Part V
Two Potential Components of MicrogenerationBy Paul Spencer / The Rag Blog / July 7, 2008 Microgeneration may or may not present much of a solution for our increasing energy deficit; but it’s still fun, and it’s not counter-productive as a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Environment, Solar Energy, Sustainability
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Against the (Border) Wall!
Not even federal law can keep Bush’s fence from ripping through natural areas along the Rio Grande.By Melissa del Bosque / June 27, 2008 The following article appears in the current issue of the Texas Observer [Vol. 100, No. 13, … Continue reading
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Tagged Border Wall, Ecology, Environment, EPA, Immigration, Nature, Texas
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Another Species Is Biting the Dust
Orangutan Populations Declining SharplyBy Michael Casey / July 5, 2008 BANGKOK, Thailand – – Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species … Continue reading
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A Small Environmental Victory for Washington State
Depleted Uranium Activism Saves Washington! By Cathy Garger | July 3, 2008 In the June 30 issue of Tacoma’s The News Tribune, readers from Washington got to read the attack on Governor Gregoire in “Gregoire’s inaction cost jobs, say Tri-Cities … Continue reading
