TAKE ACTION! Plantation expansion for agrofuels remains a major threat to the lives, livelihoods and the environment of Afro-Colombian and other peasant communities in Chocó, Colombia. This is one of the world's most biodiverse regions, with large areas of rainforest now facing destruction. The
Chocó rainforests [search] are home...
It is easy to rail against
"illegal" logging [search], when in fact typical "legal" commercial logging is far more extensive and destructive in total to the world's
biodiversity [search],
climate [search],
water [search] and
biosphere [search]. Both liquidate life giving natural habitats, and more people are
realizing they are mostly ecologically indistinguishable [
ark]. Ancient primary...
TAKE ACTION! One of Chile's last true pristine and intact wildernesses is to be dammed and logged to provide hydroelectricity. The dams -- two on the Baker River and three on the Pascua River -- would irretrievably damage
Patagonia [search], one of the Earth's wildest and...
It use to be that stockpiling food and supplies, owning land and canning garden produce, and otherwise preparing for likely societal upheaval caused by
ecosystem failure [search],
resource scarcity [search],
economic turmoil [search],
pandemics [search] and other unknowns was seen as a bit kooky. But no longer as a
"New Survivalism" emerges [
ark] in...