Category Archives: Agriculture & Environment

Buy Nothing Day & Buy Local Week

Buy Local Week & Buy Nothing Day

These special yearly events have been gaining momentum across the globe. Buy Nothing Day was started by the AdBusters anti-consumerist magazine based out of Vancouver. Buy Nothing Day is slated for Black Friday (November 25th) in the U.S. and aims … Continue reading

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America’s Oldest Heirloom, Non-GMO Seed Company in Trouble

Save D. Landreth Seed Company

D. Landreth to Go Out of Business if Funds are Not Raised in 30 Days Barb Melera describes the company’s situation on Facebook: “We set about to restore this Company because it is the most historically important American small business … Continue reading

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The Fracking Truth: Is it Productive, and is it Safe?

Fracking Map

Though Hydraulic Fracturing (or fracking) has been around since 1947, the largest natural gas campaign in history started with the privatized company Halliburton. The company (once headed by Dick Cheney) was at the center of numerous scandals during the Iraq … Continue reading

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Geo-Engineering: Chemtrails or Contrails?

Chemtrails in PA

Geo-Engineering is the artificial manipulation of the world’s climate through two primary methods: Carbon Dioxide Removal, and Stratospheric Aerosol Geo-Engineering (SAG), which consists of spraying materials (such as aluminum) into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight away from the earth’s surface … Continue reading

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The WTO, World Bank and IMF: World Globalization

Globalization by the WTO, World Bank and IMF

In the simplest possible terms, globalization is, “A process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation, and trade.” The term globalization however, has come to encompass a wide variety of … Continue reading

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