Environment

Native News Online reports that Brad Pitt’s Make it Right foundation will build solar-powered homes for Native Americans in Montana. —– Related video added by Juan Cole Native News Update

Christians

Is Pope Francis the Green Pope?

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By Robyn Purchia Pope Francis is putting a smile on environmentalists’ faces again. In an address at the University of Molise on Saturday, an agricultural and industrial region in southern Italy, Pope Francis called for more respect for nature, branding the destruction of South America’s rain forests and other forms of environmental exploitation a sin […]

Christians

World Council of Churches Endorses Fossil Fuel Divestment

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Geneva, Switzerland — The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), a fellowship of over 300 churches which represent some 590 million people in 150 countries, endorsed fossil fuel divestment this week, agreeing to phase out its own holdings and encourage its members to do the same. The WCC Central Committee is made […]

Climate Change

Bhutan Hatches Ambitious Plan To Convert All Cars To Electric

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By Christopher DeMorro Originally posted on EVObsession Situated on the southern slopes of the Eastern Himalayan mountains, the Kingdom of Bhutan has fewer people than the state of Rhode Island and even fewer cars on its poorly-paved roads. But after several visits between Bhutan officials and executives for Nissan and Mitsubishi, an ambitious plan to […]

Climate Change

Kentucky Fried Brain Senator: No Global Warming b/c Mars’ temp. like Earth’s

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By Anthony Elizondo via LiberalAmerica Image via Firebrand Progressives Last week the denial of climate change continued. This time in the form of Kentucky State Sen. Brandon Smith (R). In the continuing debate, or battle if you will, over climate change and new carbon emission regulations, the genius Kentucky Senator stated with complete […]

Climate Change

Saudi ARAMCO Nat’l Gas Plans undercut US Fracking, Point to big Water Problems Ahead

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By Tina Casey via Cleantechnica File this one under E for ewps, at least as far as the export market for US fracked natural gas goes. The US natural gas industry has been leaning thishard on the Obama Administration to approve more overseas sales, but international fossil fuel giant Saudi Aramco has just announced big […]

al-Qaeda

Oil and Terrorist Groups: Iraq’s ISIS, others Seeking Black Gold

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By Michael T. Klare via Tomdispatch Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, South Sudan, Ukraine, the East and South China Seas: wherever you look, the world is aflame with new or intensifying conflicts. At first glance, these upheavals appear to be independent events, driven by their own unique and idiosyncratic circumstances. But look more closely and they share […]

Climate Change

Oil-Rich Iran Planning To Spend $60 Million On Solar PV This Year

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By James Ayre The US’s sometimes pseudo-antagonist, Iran, is apparently planning to spend $60 million on solar PV power projects this year, according to recent reports. That represents a pretty significant uptick in the country’s investment into solar energy — up from “just” $12 million last year. The focus is reported to be on rural […]

Climate Change

Unitarians divest from Fossil Fuels: Clear Commitment on Climate Change

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By Robyn Purchia In some good new in the fight against climate change, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) passed a resolution calling for divestment of their $175 UUA Common Endowment Fund from fossil fuel companies at their 2014 General Assembly in Providence, Rhode Island, over the weekend. “The UUA has a long-standing history of fighting […]