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  • Designed to Deceive: The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

    Syndicated from Intercontinental Cry on Fri, 2013-05-24

    Like any other global public relations spectacle, the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Twelfth Session in New York this week is mostly a combination of feel good photo ops and brotherly love bromides designed to deceive. While some of the...

  • Call for pitches: Submit to The Media Co-op & Dominion

    Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2013-05-24

    Social justice takes no summer vacation. As long as there are un- and under-reported stories, as long as the mainstream media isn't getting it right—we need your pitches. Our contributors have been working hard to cover important issues from re-imagining what mental health advocacy looks like, to the garment industry in Haiti, and we want your ideas to continue our reporting.

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  • Fishable Waters

    Syndicated from Intercontinental Cry on Fri, 2013-05-24

    In the Spring 2013 American Indian Law Journal, Catherine A. O’Neill examines what it means to indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest to have fishable waters. In her discussion of the fish and fishing peoples of Washington State, O’Neill...

  • Arctic Ice Melting Too Fast to Measure: Russian Researchers Find the Hard Way

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Ice melting at a dangerous pace <a href="http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/russia-evacuates-drifting-arctic-research-station-145226993.html" target="_blank">has forced</a> a Russian research team in the Arctic to pack up shop early&mdash;and leave in a hurry.</p>

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  • Groups Slam Environmental Defense Fund for Fracking "Greenwash"

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Environmental groups and activists slammed the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) this week for partnering with a coalition of Big Energy companies and pro-fracking groups, saying there is &quot;nothing sustainable about shale oil or shale gas.&quot;</p>

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  • Radioactive Cesium Recorded at 10 Spots in Pacific Ocean

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Radioactive cesium from the Fukushima plant was found at <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/23/national/cesium-levels-in-water-plankton-baffle-scientists/#.UZ-FGOtyRyg">10 points</a> in the Pacific Ocean, including a location as far as 1300 miles from the plant, less than a year after Fukushima nuclear disaster began, scientists revealed on Tuesday.</p>

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  • Pakistan Not Soothed by Obama's "Reformed" Drone Program

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Pakistan officials criticized President Obama&#39;s speech on Thursday for not announcing an immediate moratorium on all drone strikes in the country, insisting that any drone attack on Pakistan&#39;s soil is illegal and constitutes an assault on Pakistan&#39;s sovereignty.</p>

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  • Over a Million Signatures in Support for Sen. Warren's Student Loan Bill

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Senator Elizabeth Warren&#39;s (D-Mass.) call to lower student loan interest rates to the same &quot;discounted rates&quot; given to big banks has received an &quot;outpouring of support&quot; as organizations and institutions of higher education are lining up to endorse the measure.</p>

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  • Shelter from the Tornado

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <img src="http://www.resilience.org/rendition.small/uploads/article_custom/1369407287-8cea564df6ad0d918/2011-10-17 14.57.33.jpg">
    <p>I live in Tornado Alley, in Oklahoma City. The suburb located fifteen miles south of our home, Moore, averages a tornado every 2.5 years since 1991.

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  • (en) Ireland, WSM Report back from Dublin meeting on Croke Park - your opinions?

    Syndicated from A-Infos (English) on Fri, 2013-05-24

    On the 8th of May the WSM held a meeting in Dublin on the Croke Park No Vote. A 3rd
    'deal' has since been announced and we will be arguing for a No vote on that deal but we
    want to invite our readers to look at the notes below and to post comments on what they
    think is the way to defeat the attempts by the union leaders and government to impose
    these cuts in one way or the other.

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  • Microgrids: A Utility’s Best Friend or Worst Enemy?

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <img src="http://www.resilience.org/rendition.small/uploads/article_custom/1369407284-7e24fc04f11b162e0/shutterstock_solar+turbine.jpg">
    <p>A recent data roundup by renewable energy industry analyst Paul Gipe shows that variable renewables are meeting much larger percentages of grid power than previously thought possible in some European countries.</p>

  • Scraps and the City

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <img src="http://www.resilience.org/rendition.small/uploads/article_custom/1369404737-e2f1338dad83d6b02/compostnyc.jpg">
    <p>Food and other organic material (by which I mean yard waste and prunings) make up a whopping 25 percent of New York&rsquo;s residential waste stream: that&rsquo;s a huge amount to potentially divert from landfills and incinerators.

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  • Democracy Now! 2013-05-24 Friday

    Syndicated from Democracy Now! on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <h1>Democracy Now! 2013-05-24 Friday</h1><ul><li>Headlines for May 24, 2013</li><li>Medea Benjamin v.

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  • Collapse: Does Washington Bridge Expose the Crumbling of a Nation?

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/2021046167.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 360px;" title="(Photo: Harley Soltes / Special to The Seattle Times)" /><span class="caption">(Photo: Harley Soltes / Special to The Seattle Times)</span></span>As the nation continues to follow the slash and bur

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  • Climate: action, impact, and geoengineering - May 24

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <img src="http://www.resilience.org/rendition.small/uploads/article_custom/1369393101-072ffecd5bbca95e2/C02_TCP_social_media_image_97.jpg">
    <p>&bull;China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016 &bull;Warming to hit half of plants, a third of animals &bull;Geoengineering: Can We Save the Planet by Messing with Nature?

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