Byard Duncan: Fracking With Food: How the Natural Gas Industry Poisons Cows and Crops

Over the past two years, horizontal hydraulic fracturing has garnered a lot of attention. Advocates of the practice believe the staggeringly high amounts of gas it makes accessible could serve as a “cleaner-burning” bridge between fossil fuels and renewable energy sources. But critics blame fracking for a whole range of problems -- house explosions, flammable drinking water, chronic sickness, crop failure and air contamination, to name a few.

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Bringing a “Whole New Mind” to the BP Oil Catastrophe

Daniel Pink, a former speechwriter for Al Gore argues that we now live in the dawning of the "Conceptual Age"-that which has succeeded the information and industrial ages respectively-and the skills necessary for survival in this age are, roughly put, art and heart.

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Time to Bury Cap and Trade and Plan Anew

Cap and trade is dead. Again. For real this time. Reports put the time of death at 1 P.M. EST, July 22nd, 2010

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Unfolding Ecological Catastrophe: BP refuses to disclose Critical Data

It sure looks like to me that BP is refusing to disclose critical data and playing chicken with the government while holding our Gulf of Mexico as hostage.

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Abandoned Oil Wells Make Gulf of Mexico 'Environmental Minefield'

AP investigation finds BP was responsible for 600 of more than 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico

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Global Emissions Targets Will Lead to 4C Temperature Rise, Say Studies

Studies predict major extinctions and collapse of Greenland ice sheet with temperatures rising well above UN targets

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Hidden Truths BP and The White House are Hiding from the American Public

A conversation with Peak Oil Investigator Michael Ruppert

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Reaching too Far, Delving too Deep: The Well from Hell

BP Knows it will get Worse, much Worse

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Gulf Residents Scared Oil Industry Will Leave: Will We Ever Break Our Abusive Relationship With Oil?

I'm pleased that we have as a nation finally admitted our addiction problem: After all, recognition is the first sign of recovery. But as the BP oil disaster enters its second month, it seems to me that the addiction metaphor has become inadequate. It would be more accurate to say that we're in an abusive relationship and unable to leave our abuser.

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Michael Klare: BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come

Four Scenarios for the Next Energy Mega-Disaster

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