“Each of us was put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind. Did you think you were put here for something less?” ~Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Lakota Sioux Nation, Cheyenne River Reservation -South Dakota Follow Deborah Tavares for her latest on Odysee In California’s epic drought, wars over…
Rockefeller and Rothschild Have a PLAN Stealing Our Water Commodification Human beings can be considered subject to commodification in contexts such as genetic engineering, social engineering, cloning, eugenics, social Darwinism, Fascism, mass marketing and employment. An extreme case of commodification is slavery, where human beings themselves become a commodity to be sold and bought. Similarly,…
Shale gas extraction is a controversial issue with many people arguing that it further locks us into a fossil fuel future whilst also causing a great deal of damage to our local environment. There are also risks of earthquakes from liquids left in the “fracked” area causing subsidence. There have a been a lot instances…
DISALLOW seismic airgun testing off our coasts! Voices of coastal communities and marine life are being silenced! Oceana Seismic Airgun Testing Infographic PDF Sound is as important to whales as vision is to humans. Our scientific research (with Chris Clark and Dimitri Ponirakis at Cornell University’s Bioacoustics Research Program) is measuring how noisy or quiet…
“This is one of the biggest stories in America and no one is telling it.” -Shane Smith NotTheAnswerNC.org Shane Smith visits the Gulf Coast of Louisiana where residents report that they’re still suffering from the effects of oil and dispersants four years after the Deepwater Horizon spill. This is his debrief from Season 2 Episode…
Anything Obama wants, he will get, in the state of North Carolina. Surely, the North Carolina Democrat Party m̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶ , should be questioning how we got to this point. Pat McCrory is pushing the hydraulic fracking issue in the name of improving the economic prospects for NC, while Obama opens the East Coast to…
Dr. Susan Nagel, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and women’s health at the University of Missouri, explores the link and cracks open the issues behind the use of endocrine disruptors in hydraulic fracturing. You can join the “#FrackFreeNC” campaign to raise awareness about this major water quality and health issue by visiting Twitter or Facebook….
Summary Repost from Truth-Out.org Water and natural landscapes are the epicenter of North Carolina’s booming tourism and recreation economy. In 2013, domestic tourists spent a record $20.2 billion in the state, up from $19.4 billion in 2012. If North Carolina’s proposed regulations are implemented, some of the state’s most visited areas will be industrialized and public…
Four months after a massive coal ash spill devastated the Dan River, and before the state has remedied its coal ash problem, North Carolina is poised to open a new can of worms. On June 4, 2014, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed the Energy Modernization Act, lifting a moratorium on natural gas drilling in…