Environment

16 June 2010

Corporate apocalypse vs. Solartopian survival

BP's apocalyptic Gulf gusher has put our ability to survive in serious doubt.

We have no reason to believe an end to the crisis is near---or even in sight. Nor can we begin to calculate the damage to our Mother Earth…to her...

11 June 2010

First, do no harm

Robert Koehler

As Planet Earth continues to hemorrhage crude oil from its wound — with a worst-case estimate of as much as 100,000 barrels a day — we grope, beyond our anger and guilt, simply to imagine what damage we have done in the pursuit of human...

08 June 2010

Apocalypse in the Gulf now (oil) & next (nukes)

Harvey Wasserman

As BP's ghastly gusher assaults the Gulf of Mexico and so much more, a tornado has forced shut the Fermi2 atomic reactor at the site of a 1966 melt-down that...

26 May 2010

Will an "emergency" military vote tomorrow fund more nukes?

Harvey Wasserman

As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, a shocking vote tomorrow (Thursday, May 27) may rush $9 billion worth of taxpayer guarantees into building three new nuclear power plants---two of them on that already tortured Gulf of...