It's the Dirt, Y'all!

Moore County Sustainable Film Series

Join us for "Dirt! The Movie"
May 13th, 2010   6:30-8:00 PM
Clement Dining Room, Dempsey Student Center
Sandhills Community College
3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst, NC
Join us for a FREE screening of Dirt! The Movie.
DIRT! The Movie--directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow--takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility--from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.

Colbert on Mountaintop Removal

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/261997/january-18-2010/coal-comfort---margaret-palmer

Granny D on Supreme Crt. Decision

http://www.truthout.org/doris-granny-d-haddock-response-supreme-court56272

More on Copenhagen

Copenhagen 'fails forest people'
A multi-billion dollar deal to reduce deforestation could trigger conflicts in forest-rich nations, a report warns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/science/nature/8473652.stm

A Blog from Haiti

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2010/01/port-au-prince-dispatch-the-light-that-will-heal-haiti.html

Let's Talk About Haiti

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/opinion/21kristof.html

Haiti Now, Haiti's History

With Foreign Aid Still at a Trickle, Devastated Port-au-Prince General Hospital Struggles to Meet Overwhelming Need * One week after Haiti suffered the worst earthquake in over 200 years, a strong aftershock hit this morning. Initial reports said the latest quake measured 6.1 on the Richter scale—one of the strongest aftershocks since the 7.0-magnitude quake crippled this country eight days ago. While tens of thousands of the wounded await medical help, the survivors are still burying the dead. The death toll is now estimated at a staggering 200,000. Some three million Haitians—a third of the country's population—have been directly affected by the earthquake, with one-and-a-half million now homeless. Amy Goodman files a report from the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/20/devastated_port_au_prince_hospital_struggles

* Journalist Kim Ives on How Western Domination Has Undermined Haiti's Ability to Recover from Natural Devastation * Shortly after Haiti was hit by a 6.1 aftershock earlier today, Amy Goodman and Kim Ives of Haiti Liberté report from the Port-au-Prince airport. Amy and Kim discuss how centuries of Western domination of Haiti has worsened the impact of the devastating earthquake, from the harsh reaction to Haiti's independence as a republic of free slaves in 1804 to the US-backed overthrow of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. Ives says, "This quake was precipitated by a political earthquake—with an epicenter in Washington, DC."

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/20/journalist_kim_ives_on_how_decades

Permaculture in Haiti Right Away

http://www.permaculturehaiti.org/

Coal Country at SCC

Moore County Sustainable Film Series

Join us for great films in 2010

Our Next film is "Coal Country"
January 14th, 6:30
Sandhills Community College
Dempsey Student Center, Clement Dining Room

Sustainable Sandhills invites everyone to join us for the screening of "Coal Country," a film by Mari-Lynn Evans and Phylis Geller. The film is FREE so bring a friend and join in the discussion.

"Coal Country" tells the dramatic struggle around the use of coal, which provides over half the electricity in America. Passions are running high in the mountains of Appalachia. Families and communities are deeply split over what is being done to their land. At issue is the latest form of strip mining called ‘mountain top removal'. Coal companies blast the tops off mountains, and run the debris into valleys and streams. Then they mine the exposed seams of coal and transport it to processing plants. Coal is mined more cheaply than ever, and America needs coal. But the air and water are filled with chemicals, and an ancient mountain range is disappearing forever. Join us for a discussion of the social impact of cheap energy in America.

Bring the family! All ages are invited and it's FREE! We look forward to seeing you there!

Climate Summit, This Time in Bolivia

http://allalongtheedge.blogspot.com/2009/12/evo-to-resue.html

Ode Online Edition on Climate Change

http://www.solutionsweneednow.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TheSolutionsWeNeedNow-Edit-Lineup.pdf

Amigo, Can You Spare a BTU?

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19230.cfm

Franken on Health Care

http://blog.buzzflash.com/honors/241

In India, Coke Protests

http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2009/mehdiganjrally.html

U.S., New Zealand Rank at the Bottom

Food Day praise for Brazil, China
Brazil and China are praised, and India criticised, in a new report on efforts to tackle hunger, published on UN World Food Day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/in_depth/8309979.stm

First Space Clown, for Water!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8300273.stm

Not Nearly Far Enough

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/10/08-8

Many Believe It Already Has

Warning over global oil 'decline'
There is a "significant risk" that global production of conventional oil could "peak" and decline by 2020, a report suggests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/uk_news/8296096.stm

Rich Countries' Carbon Emissions

Bank urges climate 'action now'
Rich countries must lift climate change spending and accept responsibility for their historical emissions, says the World Bank.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/science/nature/8256961.stm

Repair Kit: Urban Sprawl

http://www.re-burbia.com/2009/08/04/sprawl-building-types-repair-toolkit/