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The Salmon and the Weir

"And instead of forging more techno fossils that signal the insanity of the Anthropocene, loose go of our ever-tightening grip on Earth processes and dismantle the unjust structures humans have built that cause so much suffering to all life."

Days of Celebration – For Those None The Wiser

"Ultimately, we are past the eleventh hour of doing what is necessary to address all the social changes necessary to combat our ongoing global environmental catastrophe. Time will tell if this will ever be addressed accordingly. Yet, the doomsday clock keeps on ticking. The question is if anyone is listening. "

WATCH: Biomass – an Ecological Facade | A Massive Threat to the World’s Forests

Keep in mind while watching this film that while Dogwood Alliance may publicly denounce Enviva's biomass (the burning of trees) practices, Dogwood Alliance has partnered with Coca-Cola along with other corporations and NGOs to create the Carbon Canopy Group - a coalition "that seeks to leverage markets for ecosystem services" and "offset" pollution via carbon credits.

On Bill McKibben’s ‘Call to Arms’ for the New York Climate Summit

"As a scientist friend calculated, to replace the amount of fossil fuels we are currently using with bioenergy will require six planet’s worth of land. We truly do have to change the system. Not what is fueling it. Business as usual has to go. Unfortunately power concedes nothing without a demand. In fact, power concedes nothing without being given no other options."

“25 x 25” is a Big Fat Bio-Massacre

"Some of my friends in the professional environmental movement have reacted as expected yesterday when I called them out for having allowed biomass burning to be a huge part of what Michigan is going to get under Proposal 3 or “25 x 25.” Accusations and anger."

United Nation’s Sustainable Energy for All (SEFA) – or Sustained Profits for a Few?

"The SEFA 'partnership' model relies on voluntary commitments by governments, companies and civil society and on a large range of public-private partnerships. 'Barriers' to corporate investment are to be dismantled further – Nowhere is it acknowledged that profit-driven corporate practices and investments – including by those involved in the SEFA initiative, are in fact largely responsible for the energy poverty, human rights abuses, environmental damage and climate change that has so profoundly undermined progress towards the aims which the initiative officially exists to address."

NEWS: Rainforest Alliance Looks to Play in (the False Solution of) Carbon Markets

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SumOfUs are Corporate Whores | Some Of Us Are Not

"New to the growing spiderweb of the interconnected non-profit industrial complex is SumOfUs. Behind this web you will find the most notorious players within the so-called movement – an array of bright green "climate wealth" opportunists, believers of the illusory "green" economy."

ADVERTENCIA- ¿INTRODUCE OXFAM EL REDD PLUS EN MÉXICO? (English Translation Follows)

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In Rubble of Cap-and-Trade, Big Green Taking a Beating

In Rubble of Cap-and-Trade, Big Green Taking a Beating In the search...