CBS: America’s infrastructure is crumbling

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Unless more funding and effort are put into saving the nation’s infrastructure, it will continue to crumble, say experts. An estimated $1.5 trillion over the next five years could be needed to avoid large-scale disaster.

Autism Incidence Increased by Mercury Emissions

Source: Coalition for Safe Minds

A paper published in the medical journal Health & Place found that children living next to a mercury polluter have a higher risk of developing autism. The research, from University of Texas Health Science Center (San Antonio), by researchers Raymond Palmer, PhD and colleagues, determined that a community’s distance to a [...]

Fuelling the world food crisis

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Yes, cars on American roads will burn up close to one-third of the enormous corn crop American farmers will grow this year. But because the United States is the world’s biggest producer of corn, an essential staple, this massive diversion from the food bowl to the fuel tank threatens to wreak increasing havoc [...]

Globe may be cooling on Global Warming

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“Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.” Dr. Phil Chapman wrote in The Australian on [...]

Global Warming May ‘Stop’, Scientists Predict

Source: London Telegraph
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor
Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said.

Have your say: Do you believe in global warming?
Arctic ice melting ‘faster than predicted’
Weather Channel boss calls global warming ‘the greatest scam in history’
Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they [...]

Plant 10 Million Trees Now

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Visit GreenWorld.org | Plant Trees

Some people say the world’s coming apart at the seams and there’s not much we can do about it.
To which we say: Just watch us.
The Green World Campaign is a network of global citizens finding new ways to care for our world. Like helping to turn [...]

Global Warming and the Iraq War

Source: climateandcapitalism.com
March 19, 2008
In 2006. the US spent more on the war in Iraq than the whole world spent on investment in renewable energy.
On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, an advance edition of a new report from Oil Change International, entitled A Climate of War (pdf) quantifies both the greenhouse gas emissions of [...]

Exposed: the great GM crops myth

Source: The Independent
Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Sunday, 20 April 2008

Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world [...]

Codex Alimentarius

Dear Friends,
Please, please take the time to watch this 40 minute video. 

Codex Alimentarius Video
http://www.lightworkers.org/node/23751
It is important for us to act in order to preserve our rights of having healthy foods and nutritional supplements as we know them available to us after December 2009.
IF we do not act and the U.S. becomes Codex compliant as it is [...]

The Whole Story About Whole Foods Market

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Many organic food fans trust stores that sell largely organic produce. However, the merger of Whole Foods and Wild Oats may be a sign that it’s time for the rose-colored glasses to come off.
It is growing harder to make the case that shopping at Whole Foods is socially commendable. Whole Foods has faced [...]