GreenPeaceCorps.orgThis category contains all the articles originally written for GPC by various authors or reposted by permission.
Industry and EPA Collaborated to Hide the Truth about How Natural Gas Drilling Is Threatening Drinking Water By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica Posted on November 20, 2008, Printed on November 25, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/107949/ In July, a hydrologist dropped a plastic sampling pipe 300 feet down a water well in rural Sublette County, Wyo., and pulled up a load […]
Honeybees Continue to Vanish: Don’t Blame Aliens — It’s Our Addiction to Pesticides That’s at Fault By Evaggelos Vallianatos, TruthOut.org Posted on April 16, 2009, Printed on April 21, 2009 When I was teaching at Humboldt State University in northern California 20 years ago, I invited a beekeeper to talk to my students. He said […]
Military embraces green energy by Alexandra Zavis – Apr. 29, 2009 03:52 PM Los Angeles Times FORT IRWIN, Calif. — Inside a futuristic-looking dome that rises from the sandy wasteland of the high Mojave Desert, soldiers in plywood cubicles work at computers powered by solar panels and a towering wind turbine. Plug-in cars shuttle the […]
Big Food Is Copying Big Tobacco’s Disinformation Tactics, How Many Will Die This Time? By Fen Montaigne, Yale Environment 360 Posted on April 11, 2009, Printed on April 12, 2009 Increasingly, the question of what we eat and how it affects our health is a subject that is important not just to those concerned about […]
MEAT Study: Lots of red meat increases mortality risk By CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer Carla K. Johnson, Ap Medical Writer Reuters – Butcher fest in Hungary CHICAGO – The largest study of its kind finds that older Americans who eat large amounts of red meat and processed meats face a greater risk of death from heart disease and cancer. […]
Organic Kicks Monoculture Ass — By Julia Whitty | Mon April 6, 2009 4:54 PM PST Guess what? Those endless fields of corn, soybeans, or alfalfa are not the thriftiest way to farm. Not in dollar terms. Not in environmental terms. So why are continuous and no-till farming still such staples in American agriculture? Because you […]
The major findings of the study include:The 100-year trend of falling food prices may be at an end, and food prices may increase by 30-50 percent within decades, with critical impacts for those living in extreme poverty who spend up to 90 percent of their income on food. Up to 25 percent of the world’s […]
Dear Mr. Next President — Food, Food, Food By Michael Pollan, The New York Times Posted on October 14, 2008, Printed on October 18, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/102678/ Dear Mr. President-Elect, It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned […]
The researchers performed a life-cycle analysis of bioelectricity versus ethanol technologies, taking into account the energy produced and also the energy consumed in each. Bioelectricity was the clear winner in the transportation-miles-per-acre comparison, regardless of whether the energy was produced from corn or from switchgrass. A small SUV powered by bioelectricity could travel nearly 14,000 […]
Industrial Farming vs. Sustainable Farming Commercial or Industrial farming has become part of an increasingly global economy that turns anything it touches into a commodity, reaching its tentacles wherever in the world a food can be produced cheaply and then transporting it wherever it can be sold most dearly. The basic strategy of a commodity […]