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Activists, not global warming, a third-world threat A coalition of environmental activists called this week for rich countries to do more to control global warming and to help poor nations cope with the alleged effects of climate change. The activists’ recipe for solving global warming thus appears to be, first, to kill off economic development in the developed world and, then, to have the developed world send what money it has left over to the developing world. And, sadly, the environmental activists seem to be doing their best to make sure that poor countries stay poor. www.globalwarming.org /article.php?uid=805   (672 words)

Environmentalism This activism is usually based on the ideology of an environmental movement, and often takes the form of public education programs, advocacy, legislation and treaties. Various extreme ideologies of radical environmentalism, and several ecology-based theories of anarchy (known as (small-g) green anarchism) are often cited to justify equipment sabotage, logging or fishing blockades, and even burning of houses impinging on a natural ecology. In psychology, environmentalism is the theory that environment (in the general and social sense) plays a greater role than heredity in determining an individual's development. www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/environmentalism   (683 words)

Environmentalist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Green Parties are generally applied to those in the environmental movement working as volunteers, activists or paid staff. Environmentalists are sometimes given names in a derogatory context such as watermelon, tree hugger, eco-terrorist, or greeny (greenie). Eco-terrorism is sometimes used to describe the act of violence, sabotage, vandalism, property damage and intimidation both against people and against property committed in the name of environmentalism. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Environmentalist   (155 words)

MAIN            ENVIRONMENTAL ... Environmental legislation in India is not the problem, however, the problem is the lack of enforcement of the government on a local level. Then, in 1986 the Environmental Protection Act was passed as an ample policy to alleviate the damages of the Indian environment. As I mentioned in Environmental Concerns, the energy use and carbon emissions are a big problem for India as well. filebox.vt.edu /a/abfoster/governmentpolicies.htm   (443 words)

Green Gridlock: Environmental activists join the Senate judge fights.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05) The environmental campaign against Myers is part of a larger environmentalist effort to mobilize on judicial nominations. Environmental activist efforts are not limited to nomination fights. Green activists may be late arrivals to judicial-nomination fights, but don't expect them to leave this battlefield any time soon. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1177394/posts   (1335 words)

Environmental Decisions – A Study In 1969, the environmental revolution was triggered by outrage over several environmental catastrophes: the Santa Barbara oil spill, the seizure of 11 tons of DDT contaminated coho salmon in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the burning of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio. Environmental activists have to consider what they are willing to compromise and what they are willing to do to stop the opposition. Now that I have discussed organized environmental activist groups and some of their methods, I would like to attempt to establish why an individual would want to become a part of such a group. itech.fgcu.edu /faculty/sstans/hill.html   (4346 words)

sandiego.indymedia.org | Environmental Activists Jailed For Contempt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05) Environmental Activists Jailed For Contempt Of Court - 10 News repost from Common Dreams. SAN DIEGO -- Two environmental activists who refused to testify to a federal grand jury investigating an arson fire in University City were ordered jailed by a judge who found them in contempt of court, it was reported Wednesday. Agranoff organized a speech later on the day of the fire by an activist who was also a convicted arsonist and Kelley was among several who attended, the newspaper said. sandiego.indymedia.org /en/2005/07/109823.shtml   (296 words)

Mexico: Prisoners of conscience - indigenous environmental activists, Isidro Baldenegro López and Hermenegildo Rivas ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05) These bodies have criticised the widespread abuse of detention powers by the police and the excessive influence of the Public Ministry in the judicial system and the failure of the judiciary to ensure that police and public ministry agents are compelled to justify the legality and legitimacy of their actions. Environmental activists Rodolfo Montiel Flores and Teodoro Cabrera García were arbitrarily detained and falsely charged in May 1999 on account of their peaceful protest against excessive logging in the Petatlán mountains of Guerrero State. In the case of Isidro Baldenegro and Hermenegildo Rivas, while the state judicial police appear to be primarily responsible for their detention, fabrication of evidence and arraignment, the federal prosecutor is responsible for seeking the two men’s conviction on the basis of clearly unreliable evidence. web.amnesty.org /library/index/engamr410512003   (2676 words)

Environmental Activism and the Internet Anecdotally, it is clear that Internet-based technologies have enabled grassroots, locally-based environmental organizations to expand their abilities to access, use, create and disseminate information, and have served to empower marginalized segments of the population. Environmental activist groups are successfully using the Internet and electronic communication technologies as mechanisms through which to access, use, create, and disseminate information. Grassroots environmental activists have won significant victories in their community-by-community battles against hazardous waste facilities, landfills, and other land uses that compromise the health and well being of neighborhoods and communities. egj.lib.uidaho.edu /egj12/kutner1.html   (2912 words)

PBS - THE BUFFALO WAR: The War Three factions are passionately involved in the buffalo war: environmental activists, Native Americans and cattle ranchers. Activists Michael Mease and Rosalie Little Thunder formed Buffalo Nations in 1997, which coordinated a campaign of public education and civil disobedience to draw attention to the slaughter. Using skis, snowshoes and winter survival techniques, the activists relentlessly pursue the DOL, videotaping their every move, then releasing the footage to the media. www.pbs.org /buffalowar/war.html   (851 words)

BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | Activists occupy oil plant Environmental activists in Australia have shut down an oil plant in protest over the collapse of the international climate change talks in The Hague at the weekend. Several activists from Greenpeace chained themselves to a conveyor belt at the Stuart Oil Shale project in Queensland state. Environmental groups have criticised Australia for supporting the United States over greenhouse gas emissions - which have been linked to a warming of the planet - during The Hague summit. news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1043000/1043161.stm   (398 words)

Environmental 911 Main - Sierra Club By calling the Sierra Club's Environmental 911 Program at (415) 977-5520 or e-mailing environmental911@sierraclub.org, you will have available to you the wealth of experience and depth of knowledge that over 100 years of grassroots activism can bring. The goal of the Environmental 911 Program is to give you the information you need to take action on environmental issues at the local level. Environmental 911 Program staff will provide you with the tools to become informed, fight back and help safeguard the places and people that are the most important to you. www.sierraclub.org /environmental911   (310 words)

06/12/01 -- Environmental activists are  fighting against all the odds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05) On the contrary, he asserts, “the situation is getting worse because the public has not developed an environmental conscience,” which he argues is an essential prerequisite to achieving environmental policymaking. Environmentally friendly legislation like the Environment Code, which consolidates and updates existing environmental laws, has been stalled in Parliament for more than a year. The activists also argue that the environmental damage in Lebanon is contributing to the recession-plagued economy. forests.org /archive/europe/enactfac.htm   (1226 words)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service : Environmental activists seeking diversity to carry movement beyond 2000. @ ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05) Environmental activists seeking diversity to carry movement beyond 2000. As the movement peers into the 21st century, however, it has become obvious that when it comes to attracting people of color to their banner, environmentalists are behind the curve. Activists acknowledge their groups are overwhelmingly white in a country where racial and ethnic minorities will constitute nearly half the population in static.highbeam.com /k/knightriddertribunenewsservice/july051999/environmentalactivistsseekingdiversitytocarrymovem/index.html   (247 words)

Russian State Duma deputy initiated arrest of environmental activists The members of the local environmental organisation Centre for Nature Protection were distributing the flyers at the entrance to the local theatre. When Leontyev and his assistants arrived, the activists were distributing the flyers with the information about the local parliamentarians’ votes regarding the law about spent nuclear fuel import. In 15 minutes the police crew arrived at the spot, after having referred to the on-going antiterrorist operation they inspected the activists’ car, took the driver’s documents, confiscated the rest of the flyer’s (15,000 copies) and took all the activists to the police station, where they spent 3 hours. www.bellona.no /en/international/russia/envirorights/info_access/31976.html   (535 words)

Environmental activists stoke anxieties, oppose solutions Activist groups like the Sierra Club, Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network rail about high fuel costs, but oppose onshore and offshore oil drilling. Few environmental activists have ever known starvation, had to live without electricity, had to watch their children die of malaria or dysentery. Environmental activist groups must begin to abide by the same rules they demand of everyone else: honesty, ethics, humanity, transparency and accountability. www.eco-imperialism.com /content/article.php3?id=102   (708 words)

Plan / Justice / Introduction Individual environmental hazards are seen as part of a larger context of problems that a single community faces, including inadequate access to quality health care and education, poor job opportunities, lack of affordable housing, and being left out of the process of identifying problems, communicating risks, developing responses to problems, and developing mitigation strategies. Using a “holistic” approach and bringing together civil rights and environmental activists, the environmental justice movement integrates a broad range of issues, including environmental pollution, public health, worker safety, land use, transportation, housing, economic development and community empowerment. Although most environmental justice activists do not use the term “sustainability” to describe their efforts, for many the survival and environmental health of communities has been a central theme. www.sustainable-city.org /Plan/Justice/intro.htm   (681 words)

Western States Center Research Archives Activists are encouraged to contact the resource references for further assistance as needed. A Native American activist reported a series of obscene phone calls and hang-up calls after he was quoted in the paper on the environment. At the rallies to denounce harassment, members of the environmental group met leaders of a farm workers organization that was working to diminish the use of pesticides on local farms. www.westernstatescenter.org /archive/wupep/handbook.html   (2306 words)

Hernando: Environmental activists find defeat in court win Activists who hailed a judge's decision on development review board meetings now worry about the possible loss of the committee. It was a ruling for the people, said members of the Coalition for Anti-Urban Sprawl and the Environment, after Booth found the county had violated the state Sunshine Law by barring public participation in Development Review Committee meetings and ordered that future meetings be open. Lemieux does not buy that characterization, saying that audio and videotapes of DRC meetings provided to activists by the county had large sections of conversation missing. www.sptimes.com /2002/11/27/news_pf/Hernando/Environmental_activis.shtml   (589 words)

Environmental activists target easyGroup office, travel agents and regional airports | | Guardian Unlimited Business Short-haul flight operators were targeted yesterday by environmental activists who stopped easyJet opening its parent group's offices, demonstrated at five regional airports and locked the doors of 25 travel agents. They also coincided with the opening of UN talks on climate change in Kenya and a report saying that the poorest people in the world were already suffering from global warming. Made up of a mix of veterans from 1990s anti-road building protests and younger activists, they claim to be part of a rapidly growing grassroots movement tackling the root causes of carbon emissions. business.guardian.co.uk /story/0,,1941075,00.html   (411 words)

23/9/2005 -- Environmental activists expelled from Forest Service news conference HAMILTON -- Three environmental activists say they were turned away by armed guards from a news conference at the Bitterroot National Forest office, where forest officials Thursday released an environmental review of a controversial timber sale. Bitterroot Forest Supervisor Dave Bull confirmed the activists were turned away because the agency wanted to provide a "safe environment" for community members who had helped craft the agency's preferred alternative for the timber sale and fuels-reductions project. Environmental groups had recently criticized the agency over the project after a Freedom of Information request found the Forest Service had already spent $161,940 to mark timber units that would be treated under the agency's preferred alternative -- before the final version was released. forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=46548   (868 words)

Bush's sorry environmental record; op-ed by Russell Train and Rick Russman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05) Except in a few instances, the environmental policies of the Bush administration are a disgrace. In his 1970 State of the Union message, he called the environmental cause "as fundamental as life itself." With bipartisan leadership in Congress, Nixon initiated many of the environmental protections we enjoy today. He was a state senator for 10 years and served as chairman of the Senate Environmental Committee. www.rep.org /opinions/op-eds/61.html   (729 words)

Breast cancer-toxics study finds weak link / Bay Area environmental activists are skeptical A long-awaited study of breast cancer and environmental toxics on Long Island by the National Cancer Institute has found only a weak correlation between cancer rates and one form of chemical exposure. For years, environmental activists have claimed that the United States is pockmarked with areas where cancers, including breast cancer, are unusually common. Activists have argued that such high incidence rates may be due to local environmental toxics, such as chemicals and radiation from nuclear power plants. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/06/MN202963.DTL   (655 words)

Nation's Business: Environmental Activists Inc - US companies with positive environmental commitment Many companies are going beyond minimum compliance with federal, state, and local environmental regulations and are undertaking imaginative, ambitious programs of environmental stewardship. Officials at companies large and small say that environmental concern saves their firms money, preserves natural resources, and improves consumer perception of a business. As an example of environmental responsibility, she cites the "Responsible Care" program of the Washington, D.C.-based Chemical Manufacturers Association. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1154/is_n8_v78/ai_9237171   (1371 words)

6th Grade - Corpus Christi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05) Environmentally hazardous sites and facilities are disproportionately located in communities of color and lower-income communities, according to "Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts", a new report by Daniel R. Faber, associate professor of Sociology, Northeastern University, and Eric J. Krieg, assistant professor of Sociology, Buffalo State College. Environmental Defense is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. The Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC) at Clark Atlanta University (Georgia) was formed in 1994 to serve as a research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights, facility siting, land use planning, brownfields, transportation equity, suburban sprawl, and Smart Growth. missmax.com /environmental%20racism/home.htm   (1563 words)

Corporations "Get Engaged" to the Environmental Movement - Center for Media and Democracy At the same time that environmental groups are dialoguing with corporations, some of their top staff people are literally going to work for them. Mainstream environmental groups find themselves caught between those who believe the future lies in working with industry and those who contend that institutions of corporate power, such as the World Trade Organisation, must be dismantled. Most of the people in the room, which included more than 100 of the UK's leading environmental, development and human rights activists, had never heard of BP/Amoco's PR firm, and of course they had no idea what it was up to. www.prwatch.org /prwissues/2001Q3/engaged.html   (2457 words)

State Network Launched To Help Local Environmental Activists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05) Environmental groups say they are moving the fight to protect our environment to a whole new level -- the state level. "Because of the trend toward weakening federal environmental laws and shifting responsibility to the states, state legislation is increasingly a means for protecting or destroying our environment." However, Featherstone warns, efforts on the part of state government officials and politicians to pass positive environmental laws have been piecemeal. Activists will be offered free subscriptions to WILDlines, a publication that highlights contentious state environmental issues, threats to wildlife and wildlands, actions by state agencies and grassroots success stories. www.defenders.org /releases/pr1998/pr102998.html   (464 words)

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