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Banks are big contributers to the acceleration of climate change effects. A report issued late last year clearly indicates this fact, revealing that American financial institutions often back large projects involving coal-burning processes. While some banks find it hard to green up their names, people are fed with ... |
14 January 2012
06:02 GMT |
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Greenpeace activists might have gone a little too far this time, after they broke in a French nuclear site located 95 kilometers from Paris. Their action aimed to reveal the vulnerability of the power plant. Greenpeace called the police and they arrived in no time to investigate the case. After nine hours spent on t... |
6 December 2011
02:43 GMT |
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Bellingham is now the home for 81,000 inhabitants who share eco-friendly values and a great concern towards sustainability. Their lifestyle could experience radical changes since authorities think about the possibility of turning the town into a new coal terminal.Local people are worried about the risk factors implie... |
26 October 2011
08:53 GMT |
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Yet another confirmation that the fight to protect our environment may sometimes be harsh comes from Greenpeace that has announced that 20 of its activists have been recently convicted and fined for scaling one of the world’s biggest oil rigs.The activists who back in May 2011 took action to demand t... |
3 October 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Activist Pete Bethune, from New Zealand, boarded a Japanese whaling ship on Monday, to make a citizen's arrest on the captain. The reason for this action was that Bethune's powerboat, named Ady Gil, was sunken by a whaling ship last month, as it was carrying Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) activis... |
15 February 2010
02:54 GMT |
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Sixty-seven-year-old George Tiller, a famous pro-choice activist and abortion doctor, was killed on Sunday, in a Reformation Lutheran Church in his Wichita, Kansas hometown. The police apprehended the shooter, a 51-year-old man, and are currently investigation whether he has any connections to pro-life groups that op... |
1 June 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Turkish authorities seem to have their own notions of free speech, as they proved on March 16th, when they actually deported two peaceful activists with the International Rivers environmental nonprofit group, who showcased a banner at the World Water Forum. The material said “No Risky Dams,” and was a dir... |
18 March 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Activists from Plane Stupid Scotland, an environmental organization opposed to the aviation industry, have recently blocked an Aberdeen airport, protesting against its expansion. The construction is funded and supported by Donald Trump, who wants to build a longer runaway, on which he and his rich friends can land th... |
4 March 2009
04:52 GMT |
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The effects of global warming are generally known to the public, and everyone keeps saying that the problem needs to be tackled at an individual level. However, very few people know what tackling problems at an individual level means. In the case of college students, for example, the possibility of beer going “... |
16 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Seventeen members of the Everglades Earth First! environmental group were arrested Saturday on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest, after camping out near the Barley Barber Swamp in Florida for more than a week. Their action was prompted by growing concerns that the Florida Power & Light (FPL) utility company... |
12 January 2009
07:04 GMT |
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On this year's Valentine Day, environmentalist action group Rising Tide and housing justice organization City Life/Vida Urbana are proposing to the American public to close their accounts at the Bank of America, on account of the fact that the financial institution keeps foreclosing homes of poor families, which... |
10 January 2009
07:14 GMT |
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As you know, Brandon Michael Darby, one of the figures that played a very important role in the Common Ground Relief organization, was recently proved to be an FBI informant, as he himself admitted in an open letter. An e-mail that arrived today at Softpedia from the grass-root organization tells their side of the st... |
9 January 2009
05:56 GMT |
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In a recent turn of events, Common Grounds co-founder, Brandon Michael Darby, has come forward and announced that he has been working with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for the past couple of years, although many details are still left out from his open letter. He publicly admitted being responsible for ... |
5 January 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Fernando “Dodong” Sarmiento, 39, was the Secretary General of Panalipdan-New Bataan, and a fierce critic of surface and open-pit mining, an opinion that led to his death, Francis Morales, the spokesman for Panalipdan-SMR, said in a statement. Over the course of 2008, Sarmiento was interrogated by elements... |
29 December 2008
05:52 GMT |
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After the controversial release of 6 Greenpeace activists from arrest this summer, by a court order, the environmental organization strikes again. This time, the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, the Rainbow Warrior, dropped anchor in the harbor next to the Kingsnorth coal-powered plant and several activists took the... |
30 October 2008
09:36 GMT |
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