Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor. June 3, 2009. An Ecuadorean court alleges that Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron, knowingly unleashed toxins across an estimated 1,700 square miles.
Will Allen, Chelsea Green Publishing. May 11, 2009. Industrial ag supplies most of our food, yet its lack of regulation may be more of a threat than Wall Street's.
Kerry Trueman, AlterNet. May 7, 2009. Kunstler dishes on the collapse of our institutions, why "recovery" may never come and how to survive the fall of farming as we know it.
AzzamanApril 30, 2009. Though representing a modest fraction of Iraq's oil riches, the Ahdab field was marketed as proof that security conditions have improved.
Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. April 16, 2009. And that's just the fraction of reported spills. While big tanker disasters make the headlines, the daily toll of the oil industry is huge.
Shaun Chamberlin, Chelsea Green Publishing. April 6, 2009. We have officially entered the post-oil age in which the transition to lower energy lives is inevitable.
Shannyn Moore, Huffington Post. March 31, 2009. Currently 6 million gallons of crude oil sit at the base of a volcano that has erupted 19 times in the last eight days.
Riki Ott, Chelsea Green Publishing. January 27, 2009. Drilling put in motion by Clinton and Bush have had such devastating effects on Arctic communities it fits the UN definition of cultural genocide.
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. January 14, 2009. Oil costs a third of what it did in July, and prices keep dropping. That may seem like a godsend now, but we'll pay through the nose later.
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. December 21, 2008. Until this year's report, the International Energy Agency mocked people who said that oil supplies might peak. Now they've changed their tune.
Chris Carlsson, AKPress. December 18, 2008. Bicycling subcultures signal a sensibility that stands against oil wars, environmental devastation, urban decay and monocultural sprawl.
Staff, Iraq Oil Report AlterNet: War on Iraq. December 11, 2008. Kirkuk is Iraq's second most important oil area, and the scene of dispute between Iraqi Kurds and Arabs.
Vandana Shiva, South End Press. December 3, 2008. Biodiverse farms offer us more food, better food, higher incomes for farmers and a defense from climate disasters.
Silja J.A. Talvi, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. December 1, 2008. Dr. Riki Ott has a special response to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's heavy push for oil drilling in the Arctic.
Margaret Williams, Yale Environment 360. November 19, 2008. Obama must reverse Bush policies to avoid irreparable harm to Arctic wildlife and to some of the most biologically productive waters on earth.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. October 29, 2008. In 1998, Nigerian protesters occupying a Chevron oil platform were jailed and murdered. Now, the case is in a U.S. court.
Phyllis Bennis, Foreign Policy in Focus. October 27, 2008. Whatever the U.S.-Iraqi "agreement" ends up looking like, it is unlikely to have much of an effect on the occupation.
Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. October 23, 2008. Working Americans are reeling from the "unintended consequences" of their relentless war against regulation.
David Sassoon, SolveClimate. October 6, 2008. America's energy and climate future will be determined by what the nation decides to do with its deposits of oil shale.
