Webinar: Peace & Permaculture
World BEYOND War organized a webinar to explore the intersections between permaculture, farming, simple living, and anti-war activism.
World BEYOND War organized a webinar to explore the intersections between permaculture, farming, simple living, and anti-war activism.
Is the ultimate solution deceptively simple: Grow our own good food and mind our own damn business? That’s my takeaway from the work of Greta Zarro, Organizing Director of World Beyond War and co-founder of Unadilla Community Farm, and Brian Terrell, an Iowan farmer and long-time peace activist.
It is time for the adults in the room to sit the out-of-control and spoiled child down and inform him that he does not own the universe. No, Elon, you are not going to be the master of Mars.
Early this morning, protesters from Extinction Rebellion Bristol and Christian Climate Action blocked access to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) site at Abbey Wood near Bristol.
This week on Talk Nation Radio: Martial Mining, or Militarism and Extraction. Our guest is Daniel Selwyn, a researcher and educator with the London Mining Network, an alliance of 21 organisations working to expose human rights abuses and environmental crimes committed by mining companies based in London, and campaigning for social justice and the ecological integrity of the planet.
Maryland Department of the Environment’s conclusion about PFAS poisoning from military bases over-reaches the reasonable findings based on the actual data collected and falls short of acceptable scientific and industry standards on several fronts.
This week on Talk Nation Radio: the poisoning of the Pacific and who the worst culprit is. Joining us from Tokyo is Jon Mitchell, a British journalist and author based in Japan. In 2015, he was awarded the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan’s Freedom of the Press Lifetime Achievement Award for his investigations into human rights issues on Okinawa.
Last month the Maryland Department of the Environment released a report that found no cause for alarm regarding the presence of PFAS in the St. Mary’s River and its oysters near a navy base that dumped the substances into the water during routine fire-fighting exercises. The chemicals, per – and poly fluoroalkyl substances, are linked to cancer and fetal abnormalities.
Andrews, the “Home of Air Force 1” is the only base in the state known to poison both the Patuxent and the Potomac. PFAS may travel for miles. It contaminates fish and sickens people who consume it. Who knew?
