Human Rights

Where Mountains Once Stood: Coal Mining in the Appalachians

Posted by on Aug 14, 2012 in Earth SOS, Environmental Issues, Featured Slide, health, Human Rights, RECENT POSTS, World Updates | Comments

Where Mountains Once Stood: Coal Mining in the Appalachians

By KYLE CLENDINNING  Published August 14, 2012 The Appalachian Region of the United States stands as one of the most scenic areas in North America. This 205,000 square mile region follows the Appalachian Mountains from southern New York to Northern Mississippi, including all of West Virginia and parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Home to more than 25 million people, this region also boasts deciduous broad-leaf trees, evergreen needle-leaf conifers and vast array of wildlife ranging from Black Bears to...

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The Venus Project: A New Socio-Economic System

Posted by on Aug 5, 2012 in Blog, Earth SOS, Environmental Issues, Human Rights, RECENT POSTS | Comments

The Venus Project: A New Socio-Economic System

The new documentary for 2012. Genius Jacque Fresco introduces a new socio-economic system where money is obsolete and the world is operated by resource. In this engineered world, crime is almost non-existent. Please check out this amazing documentary, and follow up by visiting their website for a more detailed analysis of the microeconomics of The Venus Project.    Visit their site:  http://www.thevenusproject.com/   This video presentation advocates a new socio-economic system, which is updated to present-day knowledge, featuring the life-long work of Social Engineer, Futurist,...

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Mass Migration: The Untold Crisis of Climate Refugees

Posted by on Aug 4, 2012 in Earth SOS, Environmental Issues, Featured Slide, Human Rights, RECENT POSTS, World Updates | Comments

Mass Migration: The Untold Crisis of Climate Refugees

By ANAM SULTAN Published August 4, 2012 Climate change has been on the radar for years now (we have documentaries such as Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” to thank for that), yet there is a crucial element of this problem that remains largely ignored.  Over the past few decades there has been a rapid increase in the level of greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere through human activities, which has led to global warming. The effect that global warming has on weather conditions around the world is known as climate change. Unnatural, long-term changes in climate...

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Anti-NATO protest: Veterans Returning War Medals

Posted by on May 24, 2012 in Blog, Featured Slide, Human Rights, RECENT POSTS, World Updates | Comments

Anti-NATO protest: Veterans Returning War Medals

  By CHRISTINE EBADI  Published May 24, 2012 Veteran Aaron Hughes was one of the organizers of the anti-NATO protest in Chicago on May 20, 2012. 45 veterans returned their medals, tossing them as they marched together with thousands of anti-war protesters, towards the NATO summit at McCormick Place. In this interview conducted prior to the demonstrations, Hughes explains why he’s returning his war medals and how the system has failed democracy. He continues to discuss all the negative impacts, false hopes, failed policies, and corrupt intentions of the US. Hughes says,  “A...

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Natural Gas Extraction: Is It Really a Clean Alternative?

Posted by on May 22, 2012 in Earth SOS, Environmental Issues, Featured Slide, Human Rights, RECENT POSTS | Comments

Natural Gas Extraction: Is It Really a Clean Alternative?

By EVELYN HARFORD  Published May 22, 2012 The process of Hydraulic Fracturing, more commonly known in the media, as fracking is the process by which oil and gas companies extract natural gas from reserves deep in the ground. The fracking process was invented by American oil and gas company Halliburton in the 1940s,[1] and has increased dramatically in recent years. In regards to the US, “Domestic oil and natural gas production has increased every year President Obama has been in office.”[2] After the Deep Water Horizon oil spill, and the Iraq War domesticating a ‘clean’ energy source...

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Climate Change and Conflict: The Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa

Posted by on Apr 23, 2012 in Earth SOS, Environmental Issues, Featured Slide, Human Rights, World Updates | Comments

Climate Change and Conflict: The Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa

By KYLE CLENDINNING  Published April 23, 2012 There is now widespread agreement that climate change will have a revolutionary impact on how populations interact with their environment. It has been projected that shifts in the earth’s climate may result in coastal erosion, declining precipitation and soil moisture, increased storm intensity and species migration. As the global ecosystem undergoes these changes, so too must its people. Yet climate change will not affect all people equally; the most dramatic effects will likely be experienced by the nations of Sub-Saharan Africa. Key concerns...

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