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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Let’s face it: we’re now on a different planet in a different era and it matters not at all that a committee of the International...
by TomDispatch
on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 07:46 AM PDT
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The Equator Principles have been around since June 2003 when 10 big banking firms adopted them. Since then, between 70 to 100 financial institutions in many countries have signed on to the Principles. There’s been criticism from NGOs about...
by birches
on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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Back on January 29, 2024 I posted a diary: Hydrogen - fuel of the future? There may be some changes coming. I described some of the pros and cons of using hydrogen as a non-fossil fuel and for energy storage, some ways a hydrogen economy is taking...
by xaxnar
on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 04:52 AM PST
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I would imagine that few if any of my fellow Kossacks would consider themselves friendly to mining. Understandable, as mining is always considered to be nothing but environmental devastation. But you know what? You will not and cannot have the green...
by zman1527
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 09:15 AM PST
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The Wallace Historic Mining Museum in Wallace, Idaho displays many artifacts from the town’s history.
by Ojibwa
on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 08:30 AM PST
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A mere sixty years ago, seventy miles deep within a pristine rain forest in New Guinea, a mountain considered sacred to the local indigenous population rose 14,000 feet into the sky. Visit the ...
by DebtorsPrison
on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 06:00 PM PST
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by Nick Anderson
on Mon Jan 01, 2024 at 02:25 PM PST
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Roadrunner here and I’m a bit hangry this weekend because it's too cold for lizards to bask, which means I didn’t get a good lunch today or yesterday. So rather than mope about the lack of fence lizards on my fence, I thought I’d instead highlight the...
by Roadrunner65
on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 08:51 PM PST
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Arizona Representative Paul Gosar added to the Interior Appropriations Bill an Amendment that would prohibit using Interior Department funds to implement, administer, or enforce the Presidential Proclamation that established the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah...
by Roadrunner65
on Sun Nov 12, 2023 at 11:06 AM PST
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Oddly enough, I am drinking coffee as I write this. Ah, anyway, the things that'll distract the cat … welcome! This is just a little, community flavored, fluffy bit of an open thread. Although, this week it'll be a bit saltier than usual.
by Marko the Werelynx
on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 01:07 PM PDT
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China is "present" in 39 African countries and is the continent's biggest trade partner. Democracy Now! did a story on Wednesday revisiting a story on cobalt mining that reminds us how child labor still exists and that the “resource curse” remains in...
by annieli
on Fri Jul 14, 2023 at 12:39 PM PDT
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What am I writing about? The International Forum for Deep Sea Mining Professionals The Deep Sea Mining Summit 2023 will bring together a large array of solution providers, upcoming deep sea miners, members from the scientific community, and those...
by LaFeminista
on Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 03:14 AM PDT
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We need a bit of levity to take the edge off the disturbing climate news that has finally begun to get some attention from the media after seven decades of ignoring the blinking code-red lights. It ...
by Pakalolo
on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 07:33 AM PDT
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As most readers probably know by now, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this week released a synthesis report of the component parts of its Sixth Assessment Report on the climate. As Scott Johnson at Ars Technica...
by Meteor Blades
on Fri Mar 24, 2023 at 06:06 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but are not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
on Fri Jan 27, 2023 at 09:18 PM PST
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Jason Moore adheres to World-System Theory (WST), a school of historical sociology that might best be called� marxish —it is influenced by Marxian political economy and uses some ...
by annieli
on Sun Jan 29, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. I’m anything but a mathematician. Still, the numbers should take anyone’s breath away. Last spring, South Asia experienced a...
by TomDispatch
on Thu Oct 13, 2022 at 06:45 AM PDT
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President Biden designated the first national monument since taking office on Wednesday, signing a proclamation that established the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in Western Colorado. The national monument not only preserves the former...
by April Siese
on Wed Oct 12, 2022 at 04:09 PM PDT
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Anybody who has looked at a 1930s or 1950s copy of Popular Mechanics devoted to showing us what the world would be like 25 or 50 years into the future knows how far off the mark such speculation can be. This is now true more than ever. We’re definitely...
by Meteor Blades
on Fri Oct 14, 2022 at 07:04 PM PDT
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The areas of eastern Kentucky hit by record rainfall and devastating floods in July are almost tailor-made for disaster. The area contains steep hillsides and narrow valleys. In some of these, communities are crammed into a tight space that also...
by Mark Sumner
on Tue Aug 16, 2022 at 02:11 PM PDT
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