News
By Coral Davenport, published Dec. 5, 2013 in the New York Times WASHINGTON — More than two dozen of the nation’s biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the government will force them to pay a price for carbon pollution as a way to control …
Continue reading “Large Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon”
Video interview: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/21/we_have_to_consume_less_scientists
Chevron, Exxon and BP among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age, figures show Article by Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent published in The Guardian, Wednesday 20 November 2013 11.07 EST The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly …
Continue reading “Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions”
By James Timarco of YES! Magazine When negotiators from the 12 countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership gathered this week in Salt Lake City, Utah, they were met by the “TPP Welcoming Committee,” a coalition of environmental, social justice, and labor groups who did their best to show that there is opposition to the deal in …
Continue reading “TPP Protestors to Foreign Negotiators: “Don’t Let U.S. Bully You””
For the most informative website, see: http://www.exposethetpp.org/ See article here from the website: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Empower Corporations to Attack U.S. Policies in Foreign Tribunals and Demand Taxpayer Compensation for Our Environmental, Health and Other Laws A leaked text revealed that TPP would include and even expand the controversial system of extreme corporate privileges …
Continue reading “Website/Videos/Interview/Links Regarding The Secretive TPP agreement”
Gar Alperovitz | October 8, 2013 A baker takes freshly-baked bread from the oven at King Arthur Flour Co., a worker-owned business in Norwich, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot) Everyone knows the United States faces enormous challenges: unemployment, poverty, global warming, environmental decay—to say nothing of whole cities that have essentially been thrown away. We know …
By Michele Nash-Hoff (published on Huffington Post- 11-14-13) Proponents say that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement would be a platform for economic integration and government deregulation for nations surrounding the Pacific Rim and facilitate free trade to counter China’s financial influence in Asia and the Pacific. The negotiating parties include Australia, Brunei, Canada, …
Continue reading “The Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement Would Harm Our Environment”
A strong heritage of stewardship of the earth and reverence for all of God’s creations is found in the scriptures and the writings and statements of Church leaders. Hebrews 1:1-2 1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last …