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Arrests and displacement rock villages in palm oil landgrab in Bengkulu, Indonesia
In April of this year, I visited a pair of villages in Bengkulu, Indonesia, where the Indonesian palm oil company PT Sendabi Indah Lestari (PT SIL) — a company that allegedly supplies palm oil…
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How Ebola Impacts Oil Drilling
…AND GREENS PUSH BACK. Despite Obama’s attention to climate change in his speech, some environmental groups took issue with the remarks. Friends of the Earth climate and energy campaigner…
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Great-granddaughter of General Mills founder urges company to stop using GMOs
This blog post has been adapted from a statement made by Harriett Crosby, Friends of the Earth board member and General Mills shareholder, at the company’s shareholder meeting on Tuesday, September…
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Citing high costs to ratepayers, Friends of the Earth petitions CPUC for shutdown of Diablo Canyon and transition to renewable energy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In its petition filed today with the California Public Utilities Commission, Friends of the Earth called the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant too expensive to operate and called…
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Blumenauer, Conyers, 58 others send letter urging EPA to take immediate action to protect pollinators
On behalf of Congressman Earl Blumenauer WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) and John Conyers (MI-13), along with 58 other Members of the House of Representatives, sent…
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Exposed: U.S.-EU trade talks and corporate Global Services Summit reveal corporate capture of trade policy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland, the United States and the European Union opened a week-long negotiating round for the Transatlantic Trade and…
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USDA shells out for local, organic
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announces $52 million in grants to support local food systems and organic agriculture. Just a sop to critics? USDA shells out for local, organic -Fortune 9/29/2014
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Obama faces hard sell on climate fund
President Obama is facing international pressure to contribute to a $100 billion-a-year fund to help poor countries deal with climate change, but Republicans are likely to stand in the way, endangerin…
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To Ban Ki-moon: Champion public funds for climate finance, fight greenwashing of green bonds
In light of this week’s U.N. General Assembly and Climate Summit, 118 groups from 37 countries urged U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (1) to ensure that private finance is not counted as inter…
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Hackers breach biology to transform life into building material
How do you transform mushrooms into furniture, or re-wire algae to conduct electricity? Biohacking, the practice of rewiring the biology of living organisms for practical uses, is evolving from a frin…