Archive for July, 2010

  • Yes. The more I think about it, the more I realize that immigration is part of our fight in the climate movement.  Here’s why I think we need to be...

    Is Immigration Our Fight?

    Posted on July 28, 2010 | 4 Comments
    Yes. The more I think about it, the more I realize that immigration is part of our fight in the climate movement.  Here’s why I think we need to be...

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  • “This project has no real value or contribution to society,” said John Weisheit, Colorado Riverkeeper and Conservation Director of Living Rivers. And for that small amount of oil, Earth Energy Resources and the State of Utah are willing to put the entire Colorado River watershed and the 30 million people it supports at risk.

    First Tar Sands Mine in US Faces Fierce Resistance in Utah

    Posted on July 28, 2010 | 2 Comments
    “This project has no real value or contribution to society,” said John Weisheit, Colorado Riverkeeper and Conservation Director of Living Rivers. And for that small amount of oil, Earth Energy Resources and the State of Utah are willing to put the entire Colorado River watershed and the 30 million people it supports at risk.

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  • “This area should be known for the iconic beauty that draws travels from around the world, not for introducing one of the worst forms of energy to the United States,” said Juliana Williams, one of the organizers for the event. “We refuse to sit idly by as the State of Utah and Earth Energy Resources trade away our future.”

    Moab Joins the International Fight to Stop the Tar Sands

    Posted on July 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
    “This area should be known for the iconic beauty that draws travels from around the world, not for introducing one of the worst forms of energy to the United States,” said Juliana Williams, one of the organizers for the event. “We refuse to sit idly by as the State of Utah and Earth Energy Resources trade away our future.”

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  • Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to invite you to the closing party in honor of Andrea Bowers' solo exhibition. Special guest and environmental activist Tim DeChristopher will be present and answer questions, and artworks will be available in support of raising funds for Tim DeChristopher's climate action group, Peaceful Uprising.

    July 31: Peaceful Uprising Fundraiser in LA

    Posted on July 20, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to invite you to the closing party in honor of Andrea Bowers' solo exhibition. Special guest and environmental activist Tim DeChristopher will be present and answer questions, and artworks will be available in support of raising funds for Tim DeChristopher's climate action group, Peaceful Uprising.

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  • A struggle is increasingly being fought between water and oil, not only over them. Tar sands are at the center of this tension. Join Peaceful Uprising for a free screening of the film H2Oil and a discussion afterward about the threat of tar sands to Utah.

    July 20: Free Screening of H2Oil

    Posted on July 12, 2010 | No Comments
    A struggle is increasingly being fought between water and oil, not only over them. Tar sands are at the center of this tension. Join Peaceful Uprising for a free screening of the film H2Oil and a discussion afterward about the threat of tar sands to Utah.

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  • Today, the Obama Administration announced that they are opening 1.8 million in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to oil and gas drilling.  Apparently, between the Bush and Obama Administrations not much...

    Second Verse, Same as the First

    Posted on July 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
    Today, the Obama Administration announced that they are opening 1.8 million in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to oil and gas drilling.  Apparently, between the Bush and Obama Administrations not much...

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  • Veteran activist Ted Glick--sentenced to 1 year probation and a $1,100 fine for hanging two

    Friday Uprising: Ted Glick

    Posted on July 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Veteran activist Ted Glick--sentenced to 1 year probation and a $1,100 fine for hanging two "Green Jobs Now" banners at the Hart Senate Building--discusses his new book, Love Refuses to Quit: Climate Change and Social Change in the 21st Century.

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  • Why not just create good-paying, lasting American jobs that wind and solar and efficiency projects create — the kind of jobs that can’t be outsourced. Instead of investing in these strip-mine-sinkholes of temporary solutions to energy, Utah could be creating real, constant sources of energy and jobs. We could be creating new markets and new technology for alternatives but instead we continue to spin our wheels by clinging to our oil dependency.

    Tar Sands are the best we can do?

    Posted on July 2, 2010 | 3 Comments
    Why not just create good-paying, lasting American jobs that wind and solar and efficiency projects create — the kind of jobs that can’t be outsourced. Instead of investing in these strip-mine-sinkholes of temporary solutions to energy, Utah could be creating real, constant sources of energy and jobs. We could be creating new markets and new technology for alternatives but instead we continue to spin our wheels by clinging to our oil dependency.

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  • Tomorrow, July 2nd, is the deadline for public comments on the Keystone XL pipeline that could bring 900,000 barrels of tar sands to American refineries each day. Tar sands are the dirtiest fuel we use, creating 3 times the greenhouse gases as conventional oil, contaminating entire rivers and watersheds from leaking toxic tailings lakes and devastating an area of Canada the size of Florida.

    ACT: Tell the State Dept. to Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline

    Posted on July 1, 2010 | 2 Comments
    Tomorrow, July 2nd, is the deadline for public comments on the Keystone XL pipeline that could bring 900,000 barrels of tar sands to American refineries each day. Tar sands are the dirtiest fuel we use, creating 3 times the greenhouse gases as conventional oil, contaminating entire rivers and watersheds from leaking toxic tailings lakes and devastating an area of Canada the size of Florida.

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