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- North Grenville’s powerful pipeline postersHow to promote a pipeline protest---READ-->>
- Naomi Klein: Climate change, unions, and a united left agenda“This is a green labour revolution I’m talking about. An epic vision of healing our country from the ravages of the last 30 years of neoliberalism and healing the planet in the process.”---READ-->>
- Marxism and the ecological revolutionAre Marx’s views on ecology relevant to today’s environmental crises?---READ-->>
- The myth of ‘environmental catastrophism’A recent book claims activists who warn that the world faces environmental catastrophe are doing more harm than good. A new essay by Ian Angus explains why that claim is wrong.---READ-->>
- Carcinogen found in nearly 100 shampoos and soapsA new study from the Center for Environmental Health finds cocamide diethanolamine in major brand and private label products sold by major retailers across the U.S.---READ-->>
- Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'More proof that the U.S. military is the world’s worst and deadliest polluter---READ-->>
- Video: How tar sands threaten our communitiesVideo of meeting to protest Enbridge’s tar sand pipeline, organized by Toronto East End Against Line 9, August 25, 2013---READ-->>
- Lessons of the Lac Mégantic oil train disasterOil-by-rail should be banned for safety reasons, but the explosion also adds to the argument for an urgent, emergency shift away from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.---READ-->>
- Fracking’s false promise of plentyAn angry book challenges claims by industry and media that fracking will meet America’s energy needs---READ-->>
- How to answer TransCanada’s pipeline spinThese talking points, prepared by the Council of Canadians, provide clear and pointed answers to TransCanada’s lies, damned lies, and pipeline promotion spin.---READ-->>
- Is the climate sick of us?Video: Ian Angus, interviewed in Lisbon in 2010---READ-->>
- Stop Energy East! A new resource for pipeline activistsNew website documents the dangers of TransCanada’s pipeline---READ-->>
- An antidote to climate change denialA CounterPunch author says global warming has stopped. He’s just plain wrong---READ-->>
- Corporate interests undermine African food sovereigntyAfrican small farmers denounce genetically modified seeds, agro-chemicals, resource grabs and laws that prevent them from freely using, sharing or selling their seed.---READ-->>
- Fracking SongEmily Blyth tells them where to frack---READ-->>
- Canada's energy regulator refuses to read thisPeople whose water, air and homes are endangered by Enbridge Line 9 have been refused the right to testify. We’re fighting back anyway.---READ-->>
- Privatizing the air, 100 years agoCarbon trading is a recent invention, but the idea that capitalists would privatize the air if they could isn’t new at all.---READ-->>
- After the explosion: Deadly pollution in Lac-MéganticEnvironmental group finds carcinogen levels in Chaudiere River are now are nearly 400,000 times higher than the legal limit.---READ-->>
- Interview with Eastern Ontario anti-pipeline activists“What benefit could there possibly be to make up for the risks involved?”---READ-->>
- Another blow to climate 'skeptics'American Geophysical Union says ‘ rapid societal responses’ are needed to prevent harmful climate change impacts around the world---READ-->>