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.
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. September 4, 2008. The recent fighting in the Caucasus is part of a bigger struggle between Moscow and Washington over the energy riches of the Caspian Sea basin.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. September 3, 2008. We're all part of one nation. So why do the people of Alaska get a cut of oil company profits when the rest of us don't?
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. September 3, 2008. First Saddam-era deal approved; UNICEF blasts Iraqi government for not investing in drinking water.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. August 21, 2008. The controversial oil magnate has made headlines for a supposed conversion to cleaner energy, but there's ample reason to be suspicious.
Matt, Think Progress AlterNet: Election 2008. August 19, 2008. McCain visits oil platform owned by chevron, the same company his National Finance Co-Chairman lobbies for.
Sharona Coutts, ProPublica. August 14, 2008. A pipeline that runs through Georgia is the second largest in the world, and American tax dollars helped fund big oil projects in the region.
John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus. August 5, 2008. To survive we need to recognize that these threats are not separate problems, and they must be addressed as one major crisis.
