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The Accidental Wetland in the Colorado Delta

Wellton-Mohawk Canal Seen here at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Wellton-Mohawk Canal carries drainage water from an Arizona irrigation district sixty miles into the Colorado River Delta in Mexico. There it gives life to an accidental wetland called La Ciénega...

The Peak Oil Crisis: The Beijing Syndrome

As the term “China syndrome” has already been taken, I am terming what is happening in the country these days the “Beijing syndrome,” for China’s capital seems to be shaping up as the epicenter of a great upheaval to...

Philip Ackerman-Leist, author “Rebuilding the Foodshed”

Credit: Earthworms with Jean Ponzi | Download Philip Ackerman-Leist, author of Rebuilding the Foodshed – How to Create Local, Sustainable and Secure Food Systems, talks with Jean Ponzi about a number of issues including health and social justice. The book is published...

Telling the Real Fracking Story

I can’t imagine it’s easy being a journalist these days, tasked with covering the explosive growth of US shale gas and oil (tight oil) drilling, and the even more explosive and ubiquitous claims that these unconventional resources are going...

A New Dream Built on Resilience

If you’re a lazy pessimist, times are good. After all, you don’t have to look far to see evidence that things are tough and poised to get tougher. There’s a growing wealth chasm between the rich and, well, everyone else. Significant changes...

Fracked Gas Won’t Solve Energy Crunch: Report

By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee Governments and financial analysts who think unconventional fossil fuels such as bitumen, shale gas and shale oil can usher in an era of prosperity and energy plenty are dangerously deluded, concludes a groundbreaking report...