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Against Vivisection (redux)

Still here at AR2009. As an adjunct to today’s “Commonalities of Oppression” talk, let me offer this link to last year’s talk on the same topic. Check out the intersections category for more posts on this topic; visit the connections page of the Eastern Shore Sanctuary website for even more ideas, essays, and links.

Nurturing Activism (redux)

I know, I know, I still need to post summaries of my talks at TLOV in June. But here I am in LA at AR2009, getting ready to appear on the “Nurturing Activism” panel, and so this seems a good time to share the link to my account of my 2007 talk on that topic. [...]

UK Hospitals to Cut Carbon by Slicing Meat

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk

Hospitals will take meat off menus in bid to cut carbon

The Guardian,\n Monday 26 January 2009

Meat-free menus are to be promoted in hospitals as part of a strategy to cut global warming emissions across the National [...]

Read This Or Else

To Superweed readers who’ve been wondering where I’ve been: I’ve been teaching composition (which takes a lot more time than teaching speech) this term. And — check it out! — my students now have a blog. It’s called OR ELSE and I really do want you to check it out, read it, and link to [...]

Plants Against Hunger

Organic farming practices produce yields comparable to those of non-organic methods in usual years and tend to out-produce synthetic methods in years of weather stress. Further, organic practices maintain soil structure and water purity over the long term. All of this has been long known. But, now, a new UN study demonstrates decisively that [...]

Don’t Bail!

Economist Dean Baker explain that “the banks have a gun pointed to their heads and are threatening to pull the trigger unless we hand them $700 billion” but that doing so might lead to depression. In other words, it’s bailing out incompetent banks and their wealthy shareholders (rather than failing to do so) that [...]

Ecuadorans Recognize Rights of Ecosystems

As predicted, the people of Ecuador did vote to approve the new constitution and now that country is the first in which ecosystems are legally considered rights-bearing entities rather than property.

clipped from www.celdf.org

September 28, 2008

By
an overwhelming margin, the people of Ecuador today voted for a new
constitution that is the first in the world [...]

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