FacingFuture.TV founder and executive producer Stuart Scott and co-host Dale Walkonen recently broadcast a wide-ranging interview with Noam Chomsky about the state of human existence in the face of universal decadence. They started by referencing the Doomsday Clock (Science and Security Board Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists), which has pegged humanity’s risk of annihilation at... Continue Reading →
An annual ExxonMobil report shows the company routinely giving six-figure sums to Brookings, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and similar institutions. Not everyone is happy about Unearthed’s recent exposé on ExxonMobil. Shortly after the Greenpeace-attached journalistic outfit published quotes top Exxon lobbyist Keith McCoy unknowingly gave to an undercover reporter about the oil giant’s... Continue Reading →
Centrist Think Tanks Are Raking In Exxon Cash
Originally published: Red Flag News by James Plested (December 10, 2019 ) The climate crisis isn’t a future we must fight to avoid. It’s an already unfolding reality. It’s the intensification of extreme weather–cyclones, storms and floods, droughts and deadly heat waves. It’s burning forests in Australia, the Amazon, Indonesia, Siberia, Canada and California. It’s... Continue Reading →
How the rich plan to rule a burning planet
“Instead of funding non-polluting alternatives, it throws public money at expensive, unproven technologies that will allow the fossil fuel industry to continue poisoning frontline communities and trashing the planet." Public and environmental health advocates on Tuesday denounced Sen. Joe Manchin's Energy Infrastructure Act of 2021, calling the bill, which proposes spending 70 times more on... Continue Reading →
Manchin’s Energy Bill Condemned as ‘Kick in the Gut to Climate Justice’
"Amid a climate emergency that is wreaking havoc on communities across the globe, the path to a livable future demands new internationalism rooted in global cooperation, resource sharing, and solidarity," the coalition told the White House and Congress. A coalition of nearly 50 environmental and other advocacy groups critical of the U.S. government's increasingly hostile approach... Continue Reading →
45+ Groups Say ‘Future of Our Planet Depends on Ending New Cold War’ Between US and China
If you could write a letter to world leaders, what would you say? In November, heads of state, climate experts and campaigners will be brought together to agree coordinated action to tackle the climate crisis. COP26 will be the world’s best chance of building a cleaner, heathier, safer, more resilient and egalitarian world for all... Continue Reading →
Our world in your hands
From the ancient rice terraces of Yunnan to modern vertical hydroponics, agriculture comes in many different forms. Now a group of Italian brainiacs have created the world’s first underwater garden for terrestrial plants. Seaweed and kelp have been cultivated along shorelines for centuries, but in small submersible glass domes, pots of basil, lettuce, tomatoes, and... Continue Reading →
World’s First Underwater Vegetable Garden Reopens Growing Lettuce and Basil in Perfect Temperature
ALDEA XUCUP, PANZÓS, Guatemala — Here, in the small Mayan indigenous village of Xucup, men and boys pack tightly and stand in the back of pickup trucks in the early morning, heading to the fields to check on their crops after a night of harsh rain. It’s early June — and any strong storm has the... Continue Reading →
It’s Not a Border Crisis. It’s a Climate Crisis.
To combat climate change and pollution, Madrid is building a green wall around the city. A 75-kilometre urban forest with nearly half a million new trees “What we want to do is to improve the air quality in the whole city,” says Mariano Fuentes, Madrid's councillor for the environment and urban development. “To fight the... Continue Reading →
Madrid building a huge urban forest in bid to combat climate change
Earth911 Podcast: Good Girl Green Stephanie Moram on Sustainable Summer Entertaining
Earth911’s Mitch Ratcliffe chats with Good Girl Gone Green creator and green living mentor Stephanie Moram, looking at the choices for entertaining sustainably this summer. Stephanie’s been exploring the many ways we can reduce our environmental impact with an emphasis on making our lives unique and enjoyable. “There is no right or wrong way to... Continue Reading →
What will life be like after peak oil, in an age of major climate shifts? Hollywood movies often depict it as a bleak, dystopian world where each day is a struggle to survive after every system we depend on has been stripped away. Unfortunately, that version of the story seems to be on track so... Continue Reading →
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