Ecological Internet's Earth Action Network again demonstrates its ability to successfully internationalize strong, local environmental sustainability protest -- please support EI's continued success now during crucial fund-raiser
After prolonged protest by Ecological Internet, Rainforest Rescue and other partners, the Indian government has decided against locating [...]
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Dear Earth colleagues,
I have just come from the rainforest, and things are not looking good. Old forests continue to needlessly fall, even as [...]
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet
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CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
An Open Letter signed by more than 80 organizations from 31 countries was delivered yesterday to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) [search] [...]
By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark Climate Change Portal
Copenhagen climate talks [search] must not provide Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) carbon market funds for old, natural forest logging, or for conversion of natural [...]
Loggers and wildlife traders continue to violate Madagascar's biodiversity [search] rich rainforests including protected areas. In March of this year controversy surrounding leasing of agricultural land resulted in a military coup. In the chaos that ensued, armed gangs funded [...]
Peaceful protesters make clear PMIZ ecologically unsustainable, corruption is epidemic and democracy threatened in Papua New Guinea
October 20, 2009
From Asples PNG and Earth's Newsdesk, projects of Ecological Internet (EI)
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By Asples PNG (People of Papua New Guinea), a project of Ecological Internet
Over-fishing [search] comes to Madang, Papua New Guinea, as local peoples prepare to resist 10 tuna canneries. Support indigenous South Pacific coastal peoples as they [...]
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet
http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
(EARTH) -- Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has unexpectedly pulled out of nearly completed secret negotiations with Ecological Internet to work jointly to reform the Forest Stewardship [...]
Eco-Forestry Forum, a leading Papua New Guinea (PNG) NGO, makes major new charges of continued corruption in the establishment of carbon projects and markets in PNG in their newspaper advertisement (pdf, text below). Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) [search], or sometimes called Avoided Deforestation -- paying [...]
From Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI)
Contact:
Tim Doody: rainforestsny@gmail.com
Simon Counsell: info@fsc-watch.org
Dr. Glen Barry: glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
PHOTOS AND VIDEO OF BANNER:
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September 24th, New York: This morning, environmental activists unfurled a 35-foot banner blocking the iconic view of 10th [...]
By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark Climate Change Portal
Urge all Earth's citizens and tribes to pursue a 10:10 pledge, protect and restore all old forests, and pursue other ambitious, short-term [...]
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
A call for reluctant Earth revolutionaries to unite and slay the economic growth machine consuming ecological being.
A disease is ravaging' [...]
By Rainforest Rescue with Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal with
Ombudsman report on 20 years of corrupt IFC, World Bank Group lending to the Indonesian oil palm industry casts doubt on Bank's fitness to manage international forest carbon [...]
By Rainforest Rescue with Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal with
Malaysia is the world's leading rainforest destroying nation. Insist Malaysian authorities respect native customary land rights and boundaries of Penan's last remaining ancestral rainforest reserves; halt rainforest [...]
By Rainforest Rescue with Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal with
The fact notorious illegal loggers Samling of Malaysia [search]; who have devastated rainforests globally including those of the Penan, are surreptitiously in contention for [...]
Greenpeace Canada claims victory as falsely stating clearfelling old forests for paper products is "sustainable" when FSC certified. These photogenic poseurs fail to grasp the ecological necessity of ending consumption of all products made [...]
- Against what ecological science tells us is required for global and regional ecological sustainability, Greenpeace Canada endorses continued clearcut of ancient boreal forests for paper products including toilet paper. Nothing to change as ancient boreal forests continues to be clearcut to wipe bottoms, albeit certified by FSC and Greenpeace [...]
All Copenhagen bound climate parties urged to get back to basics of avoiding deforestation and degradation as a keystone climate change response. The focus must be upon ending first time industrial logging of primary forests, while providing local peoples alternative incomes based upon fully intact standing old forests. Anything less [...]
By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal with Rainforest Rescue
Let the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government know it must follow its people's wishes and end industrial rainforest destruction [search] once and for all. Support local landowners [...]
By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark Climate Change Portal
Alberta Canada's tar sands development [search] is the most ecologically destructive project in the world; destroying vast natural boreal ecosystems, perpetuating global addiction to fossil fuels, and ensuring [...]
Major Swiss banks Credit Suisse and UBS are to further fund Golden Agri-Resources [search] (GAR), the world's largest listed palm oil company, which currently produces 10 percent of Indonesia's palm oil. A [...]
Knighting of illegal logger and carbon market corruption plague Papua New Guinea's (PNG) attempts to receive carbon money for protecting rainforests [search]. Let [...]
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
Earth and her humanity need old forests to exist. And all enabling their destruction, including potential carbon markets paying for 'sustainable forest management' in [...]
The mighty Mekong River [search] in Southeast Asia faces a devastating threat from eleven new proposed dams. If even one of the dams are built in Cambodia, Laos or Thailand; they would block major fish migrations and otherwise ecologically [...]
The island of Madagascar is a veritable Noah's Ark of biodiversity [search], and this natural wealth is the country's primary treasure and opportunity for future ecologically sustainable development. The Korean company Daewoo Logistics intends to lease half the agricultural [...]
Dear Earth Loving colleagues,
Please, don't forget about Ecological Internet -- the web's original and still best Earth Action Network -- during our annual mid-year fund-raiser. Half way into the funding campaign, Ecological Internet is nearly half way to our' [...]
After being a lone voice in the wilderness for decades, Dr. Glen Barry and Ecological Internet's biocentric forest protection position has been adopted by most major forest protection organizations. It remains to be determined how those committing to [...]
Peruvian police reportedly shot indigenous protesters from helicopters -- as peaceful protesters were protecting their ancestral land. Online affinity campaign demanding Peru respect indigenous rights continues.
TAKE ACTION! Peru's police have clashed with' [...]
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
Let me tell you about the birds and the bees, and the flowers and the trees. THEY ARE ALL DYING. Global grassroots protest action' [...]
By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark Portal with Rainforest Rescue
Burning forests to produce electricity threatens to destroy and further diminish many of America and the world's forests. Protection and regeneration of forests, soils, freshwater, climate and biodiversity are [...]
PRESS/SOCIAL MEDIA RELEASE
- Climate Engineers Seek Techno-fix As Global Negotiations Get Underway
June 2, 2009
By ETC Group, Biofuelwatch and Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI)
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu's speech last [...]
ECOLOGICAL INTERNET: NOTHING LIKE IT ON EARTH, FOR EARTH
2009 50K Mid-Year Fund-Raiser - 16% to goal w/ 62 donors, $42,100 to be raised if ground-breaking efforts are to continue
Dear colleagues,
No global Earth advocacy network even vaguely resembles or [...]
By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal with Rainforest Rescue
Support tens of thousands of indigenous people bravely protesting Peru government's give-away of their rainforest homes [search] to oil,' [...]
Democratic consumption is an irredeemable political/economic system that has proven itself unable to justly and equitably allow all global citizens to live in peace, abundance and sustainability.
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
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By Rainforest Rescue with Ecological Internet's Climate Ark
In a startling yet welcome announcement, Malaysian government's land agency now denies plans to produce oil palm in the Amazon. While the prospect [...]
Agence France-Presse reports that part of a national park on Borneo island, home to hundreds of endangered orangutans [search], has been turned into a development zone [ark] complete with an airport and brothel. Some 600 orangutan have disappeared from Kutai National Park, East Kalimantan [...]
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology forecast that global warming's effects [search] this century could be twice as extreme as estimated [ark] just six years ago. They found that Earth's median surface temperature could rise [...]
2009 Mid-Year Fund-Raiser, Support EI and Keep Green Hope Alive $50k Funding Appeal. Donate Now!
Dear Earth loving colleagues,
DONATE NOW! Ecological Internet (EI) is on the vanguard of biocentric thought and action sufficient to achieve global ecological sustainability. For [...]
Peru's army is poised to deploy in the Amazon rainforest [ark] to lift blockades across rivers and roads by indigenous people opposed to oil, gas, logging and mining projects. The Peruvian rainforest [search] is the largest swath of [...]
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
If Gaia, the Earth System, is alive, then it stands to reason she can die. And the fact Gaia has not yet succumbed in past mass extinctions is [...]
Government documents regarding planned Amazon oil palm project by Malaysian government agency removed from Internet, and all email messages into country regarding the project are being delete
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI)
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
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PRESS/SOCIAL MEDIA RELEASE
Over-developed, over-populated, and land and water scarce Asian and Middle East nations embark upon global land grab to produce food and agrofuels; threatening global human rights, rainforest and other natural ecosystems, and regional and global ecological sustainability. Deadly global ecological issues require global citizens to unite in escalating [...]
By Rainforest Rescue with Ecological Internet
Malaysia's government owned and subsidized oil palm cooking oil and biofuel industry -- the scourge of Asia and the world's rainforests -- is continuing to expand, this time into the heart of the Brazilian Amazon
BRIEF BACKGROUND:
TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: [...]
Ecological Internet and Rainforest Rescue have been campaigning against the spread of industrial, monoculture oil palm plantations in primary rainforests for years, with some success, but the threat keeps on escalating. This is largely due to the extent to [...]
By Rainforest Rescue with Ecological Internet
No Biomass/No Burning! Truly renewable energy must be defined as including no energy production or climate mitigation claims from food based agrofuels, live plants and ecosystems, or burning biomass of any type.
Finally the oil palm scourge threatening primary rainforests and life giving ecosystems worldwide faces a setback as local protests are again successfully supported internationally by Ecological Internet, Rainforest Rescue and others.
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI)
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
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California is setting the precedent of regulating greenhouse gas emissions from transport fuels [ark]. The regulation requires producers, refiners and importers of gasoline and diesel to reduce the carbon footprint of their fuel [...]
TAKE ACTION! Let California Air Resources Board know all industrially produced biofuel crops from live biomass [search], edible or not, still require land, soil, water, fertilizer and other finite inputs. It is clear that [...]
Australia must stop being a climate change laggard. Given severe drought and massive wildfires, the Rudd Government's target to reduce carbon emissions by 5% by 2020 is dangerously insufficient.
TAKE ACTION! The Australian government is failing to establish and implement a rigorous climate [...]
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
(Earth) -- Ecological Internet (EI) welcomes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ruling today that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases "may endanger public health or welfare", a finding [...]
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) [search] proposals to use carbon market monies to protect forests appear to be gathering steam [ark], something that Ecological Internet cautiously supports as long as it does not pay for [...]
Human political and economic system failures mean world will not meet 2C warming target [ark]. Most climate scientists now agree that given soaring emissions and political constraints, an average rise of 4-5C by the end of this century is more likely. This [...]
Geo-engineering madness will complete the destruction of the biosphere and human being(s). It is critical that we reject industrial geo-engineering, to instead embrace a program of sufficient global ecological protection and restoration.
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
Human Hubris
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Rainforest destroyer of the month award for April goes to Malaysia's Land Development Authority (FELDA), who will soon break ground on a joint venture with a Brazilian firm to establish 30,000-100,000 hectares (75,000 - 250,000 acres) of [...]
147 organisations from 44 countries warn against 'biochar' (large-scale charcoal) as a dangerous new false solution to climate change
TAKE ACTION: Tell Leading Climate Scientists, Industrialists and Negotiators to Stop Promoting Industrial Scale Biochar
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
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Over a year ago, the U.S. Congress passed a law requiring massive increases in the production of ethanol and other biofuels. The Renewable Fuel Standard [search], passed as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, requires the nation to [...]
TAKE ACTION! Industrial scale "biochar" [search] is the latest dangerous geoengineering proposal (replacing now discredited ocean iron fertilization [search] as the flavor of the month) to save the Earth and humanity from climate change without personal [...]
EI commits to regular micro-blogging and social networking upon Twitter and Facebook, to promote ecologically sufficient policies adequate to achieve global ecological sustainability
(Earth) -- Ecological Internet (EI) has committed to furthering its leadership in use of the Internet to facilitate environmental conservation by establishing major new [...]
A fascinating yet terrifying new study [ark] finds that 24% of the Earth's land is degrading, some of it formerly quite productive. This is the first accurate satellite based quantification of land degradation [search]. Prior to this it [...]
Ecological Internet's innovative environmental sustainability e-zine arrives as globally one quarter of land is being degraded, the Arctic is melting, rainforests are dying, and the economy collapsing. Gaia and her humanity's survival depend upon reaching a steady state economy and other biocentric policies adequate to achieve ecological sustainability
An important new study in the open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science highlights that oil palm expansion presents a major emerging threat to the Amazon [ark]. Already a major cause of tropical forest conversion across southeast Asia, [...]
Fuel from food and already overstressed terrestrial ecosystems is immoral and unsustainable. The Obama administration must start by rejecting the proposal to increase the corn ethanol fuel blend limit from 10-15%.
TAKE ACTION! Please support US environmental and social justice groups calling upon [...]
Even through the rain, people continued to arrive. They crowded into the garage carrying saws and hammers, with tool belts strapped on.
They were here to fight climate change.
Everyone quickly introduced themselves and shook hands. With the pouring rain outside, the puddles outside growing, the crowd [...]
From whatever perspective we choose this fact is clear there is a threat to life as we know it, and this threat is being constantly amplified by the actions of man. The actions of modern technological man have helped bring this threat very close to becoming real for us on [...]
The Global Financial Crisis has replaced Global Warming as the world medias number one preoccupation. But most pundits and commentators have yet to realize that the Global Financial Crisis is another symptom of Global Warming, just like melting polar icecaps.
Contrary to many pundits opinions, the crisis was not brought on [...]
Human activity cannot expand forever on our finite planet. An economy growing at 3% a year doubles its size every 24 years. Centuries of such growth have brought us to a mature size. As with individual maturity, there comes a time for societies to stop growing, recognize their power and [...]
Faced with todays economic crisis, many pundits are acting like fundamentalist preachers. Their rants accept certain centering truths as pure and eternal. They view the free market, for example, as a manifestation of nature, not a socially constructed modelnot a crafted, even legislated, rationalization designed to yield general economic predictability [...]
The primary focus in green programs is on correcting the physical contributors to global heating (warming is now an unacceptable euphemism!), pollution and squandering of resources. The prevalent planning addresses better resource management and reducing carbon outputs. The human factors that lie behind these problems are often not addressed directly. [...]
The markets flail about like landed cod and even the mighty Ford and General Motors face the prospect of bankrupcy. Suddenly we're all social democrats again and intervention is the name of the game - (in some things).
The political class seeks a route through the mess' [...]
Our mortality is the thing we understand from the time we become aware. We will all die. This is our underlying strength and overriding weakness.
Mans design flaw was built in. You and I cannot be sustained forever. Is this why we have designed all other things to follow the [...]
As reality becomes harder to deny, I'm hearing an increasing number of cries,
growing in intensity and tinged with urgency welling up from the grassroots regarding
Peak Oil, catastrophic climate destabilization, biospheric toxicity, rapidly dwindling
quality of life, increasing wealth gap in the Global North, and increasing' [...]
Global ecological sustainability is imminently threatened by a massive ecological bubble. Global terrestrial, atmospheric, aquatic and marine ecosystems are no longer adequately intact to maintain conditions for life. The mark of progress and an equitable, sustainable economy is not how fast the economy grows at the expense of destroying these [...]
It is human nature to resist tranformational change necessary to survive, and seek all types of half-assed reform measures to continue bad habits. Rising Tide North America has released an important new report entitled "Hoodwinked in the Hothouse:" [...]
We are beginning to see the Obama administration playing fast and loose with ecological science, letting political necessities overwhelm ecological concerns regarding corn based ethanol agrofuels [ark]. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is [...]
We are witnessing a plethora of intensifying climate warnings from usually staid, and cautious scientists [search] -- including at the recent emergency Copenhagen climate science meeting [ark | [...]
It is becoming abundantly clear that ending industrial diminishment of primary and old growth forests [search] and working for their full protection and restoration is a keystone response to climate change (to say nothing of [...]
A Time Magazine article [ark] late last year highlighted well our objections to industrial agrofuels [search], indicating there are some hard choices to be made on ethanol by President Obama and his Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Both have been strong [...]
First mistruths about recycled content, now old growth forest use is under scrutiny
By Paul IJ Oosting
Pulp Mill Campaigner, The Wilderness Society (Tasmania) Inc.
A new report released by Australian conservation groups The Wilderness Society and, Still Wild, Still Threatened, shows [...]
It is becoming apparent that global warming caused rising sea levels pose a far greater danger [ark] to the planet than previously estimated. The most recent scientific consensus in 2007 from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that sea-level [...]
Help avert a serious threat to the largest surviving Elephant Population in India the imminent severance of the Muthanga Elephant Corridor in Kerala
TAKE ACTION! The largest and potentially most viable population of Asian elephants [search] is found in the mountains of the Western [...]
The use of coal must end if we are to maintain an operable atmosphere, human civilization and all the Earth's complex life
The growing and powerful climate movement [search] has, based upon climate science, already shown conclusively that climate change is real and deadly. Now we [...]
The climate change science keeps on getting clearer, and it is not pretty. A new study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [ark], updating a 2001 assessment by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change that looked at temperature changes [...]
- The nation's future carbon payments for avoided deforestation in doubt. As a global leader in promoting such payments, the PNG government would be well advised to focus upon better protecting its rainforests, if it wants to fully access carbon monies based upon their continued carbon storage
The myth that primary and old growth forests should be "sustainably" managed is dealt a mortal deathblow. Members and funders of RAN, FSC and others greenwashing ancient forest logging called upon to withdraw support in protest
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry,
In a major policy shift [ark] by the new Obama administration, the EPA has announced it will reexamine the possibility of regulating carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. While not finalized, this is the first step towards meeting [...]
Canadian government wants special treatment for the world's dirtiest oil. In first international trip, President Obama must stand strong on clean energy and sufficient climate policies.
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
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Quite a week in climate science. Ends up global warming is accelerating [ark | more\ark] at a much faster pace, causing more environmental damage, than predicted even a few years ago. Continued use of coal is denounced as "
Canadian government wants special treatment for the world's dirtiest oil. In first international trip, President Obama must stand strong on clean energy and sufficient climate policies.
TAKE ACTION! On February 19, President Obama travels to Canada on his' [...]
The enormity of Australia's climate disaster is further illustrated by the fact that Victoria's bushfires released nearly as much carbon dioxide [ark] as a year of the nation's industrial activity. Climate change caused heat and drought made already fire prone forests a [...]
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels [search] have hit a new high of 392 parts per million (ppm) [ark], with no indication the world economic downturn is cutting emissions. This is a rise of 2-3 ppm from a year [...]
The world is now clear that we live in times of great peril. Economies cannot exist without ecology. And this is why in this moment of economic shame, the best investment [ark] is to put all resources at [...]
Supposedly "Green" Finland's unprotected intact old growth forest landscapes, including 300 year old trees in Northern Forest Lapland, continue to be destroyed to make throw-away paper products
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
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Our deepest sympathies go out to Australia's bushfire sufferers [ark] who are victims of climate change. Much of Australia is a dry tinderbox due to years of climate change induced drought [ark | search], making conditions ideal for massive bushfires. [...]
Protest Finnish timber giant Stora Enso and the government profiting from destroying Finland's last ancient forests. Let them know Finland and the World's old-growth must be protected and restored to sustain the Earth's biosphere and ecosystem processes including climate, water and biodiversity.
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Sometimes readers and even supporters of Climate Ark suggest we are excessively apocalyptic. Perhaps there is some redemption to our decade of providing a voice in the climate wilderness, as Steven Chu [search] -- Nobel laureate and Obama's Energy Secretary -- [...]
What will you do when you turn on your tap and find there is no water? Many in California may soon find out as a serious, grim drought is now in its third year [ark]. And it [...]
Ecological Internet's recent protest against large-scale alteration of oceans to capture carbon left off an important point: it doesn't work, as the amount of carbon actually removed long-term is minuscule [ark]. Geo-engineering [search] -- whereby mad scientists intend to [...]
The climate crisis continues to intensify down under, as large areas of Australia endure an unprecedented heatwave [ark], adding to the misery of years of severe drought [search]. Melbourne's temperatures have topped 43C (109.4F) for three days for the [...]
One hundred and thirty-five leading ocean scientists have released [ark | more] the Monaco Declaration to draw attention to the other CO2 problem [search]. Carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas responsible for increases in global temperature and climate' [...]
