August 2011 News

August 29, 2011
  August 29, 2011 Dear colleagues, Bill McKibben, one of America’s best known environmentalists, first wrote about the dangers of climate change in his path-...
August 29, 2011
August 29, 2011By Bill McKibbenThe Nation I’m a wuss. I figured that out on August 20, when a guard was leading me down the cellblock in manacles and leg irons,...
August 24, 2011
August 24, 2011By Ben Geman The Hill Top officials with several prominent environmental groups are voicing support for demonstrations at the White House that call for...
August 21, 2011
August 21, 2011By Kevin J. KelleyBlurt: 7 Days Staff Blog A Vermont Law School professor and a Middlebury College scholar were arrested in front of the White House on...
August 21, 2011
August 21, 2011New York Times This page opposes the building of a 1,700-mile pipeline called the Keystone XL, which would carry diluted bitumen — an acidic crude oil...
August 16, 2011
August 16, 2011By James MillerSustainable China blog The question of how to promote a culture of ecological sustainability in China took me this summer to conduct exploratory...
August 1, 2011
August 1, 2011China Daily JERUSALEM (Xinhua) – The Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land (CRIHL), an interfaith committee situated in Jerusalem that...
August 1, 2011
August 1, 2011By David A GabelEnvironmental News Network A team of scientists from the University of Oxford are working on a world map which shows all the land owned or...