Nature and the Environment

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    Why March Against Monsanto on May 25, 2013

    David Suzuki explains the dangers of GMOs and Round-Up in this documentary. Celebrities Explain Why We Should Label GMOs   More Reasons to March Against Monsanto: How the March Against Monsanto Can and Will Change the World READ Monsanto and Congress Move to Stomp on States’ Rights, Pre-empt GMO Labeling Laws READ GMO Labeling Bill [...]

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    PEACE LIKE A RIVER: There’s a Time for Hyper-vigilance and a...

    Thinking about Newtown. Chased by an unending stampede of 2,000-pound automobiles and 4,000-pound SUVs, we cocoon inside our homes. The assault continues. Unsettling, threatening images charge through the television cable and overwhelm us. Hyper-vigilance trumps mindfulness. Where do we find respite? The poet Wendell Berry offers direction: When despair for the world grows in me [...]

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    RESTORING PEACE: Six Ways Nature In Our Lives Can Reduce Vio

    In the wake of the Sandy Hook school shootings, we’ve talked about gun laws and mental-health treatment, amid a host of other responses. But one potential tool has not been mentioned. Now, let me say right off that I don’t pretend that nature is a paragon of peace. Writer Herman Melville once challenged the idea [...]

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    Global Treaty Signed to Stop Deadly Mercury While FDA Allows

    Over 140 nations have come together under a new treaty to curb deadly mercury pollution over serious risks to worldwide health, but meanwhile the FDA is still allowing the mass majority of US citizens to chomp down on mercury-containing processed foods. Specifically, mercury has actually been found in the highly popular genetically modified junk ingredient high-fructose corn [...]

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    Study: GMO Crops Are Killing Butterflies

    (Butterfly photo by Lisa Reagan) We’re all familiar with Big Ag’s bad reputation of picking on small-scale and organic farmers. Now Monsanto and its cronies are beating up an even more innocuous set of victims: beautiful, defenseless monarch butterflies. A new study from the University of Minnesota and Iowa State University fingers Monsanto’s genetically modified corn and [...]