Howling At A Waning Moon: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE GUTS ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Howling At A Waning Moon: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE GUTS ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Friday, 30 Sep 2005 | Grist Magazine | Daily Grist | 30 Sep 2005

Japan is hitting the news more and more often... Or perhaps I am just spotting it more... Any way you look at it, word of Japan, Kyoto, and Tokyo are coming to the fore front... Time to start reading and listening!

Friday, 30 Sep 2005 | Grist Magazine | Daily Grist | 30 Sep 2005: "Early this December, Montreal will host a big meeting of every country that's ratified the Kyoto Protocol (and a few that haven't, not that we can think of any). "

greenState

Local efforts finally make crystal clear sense to me. Just because I have an international outlook at life doesn't mean that I ought not look directly around me to find the answers. Let the chain do it's work.

greenState: "So maybe it’s time we stop spending all of our time fighting bad legislation at the federal level, and start turning our energy towards the local level. Nothing gives me more hope for the future than to see progressive cities around the world embrace the principles of the new urbanism, and to take seriously the need to build a sustainable economy. By targeting our efforts at progressive cities, the environmental movement can achieve real, substantial victories, instead of constantly fighting a defensive battle with the federal government."

Organic Matter | Blogging the environment

Organic Matter | Blogging the environment: "I think it’s extremely important that we be able to put a human face on environmentalism – the public at large cannot be expected to care about environmental issues unless they’re framed so people understand that bad environmental policy hurts humans. I’ve become pretty well-versed in the human consequences of problems from climate change to biological invasion to the loss of global biodiversity. This, however, is a consequence that had never before occurred to me:"