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...guerrilla war against industrialization in the American West. They sabotage bulldozers and construction sites, burn billboards and destroy dams, all to keep their beloved Southwestern desert pristine. Think of it as muscular environmentalism, a world apart from the wonky work on climate change that now defines the mainstream green movement...
...forwarded Nicolson’s message to the BGLTSA e-mail list. Garland wrote in an e-mailed statement that he will “press [BGLTSA] to become more involved with other interested organizations (like SLAM) to form a more coherent and organized movement against anti-LGBTQ discrimination.” Lowell House resident tutor and BGLT adviser Marcus Alexander also forwarded Nicolson’s e-mail to the Lowell open list, urging both straight and gay students to wear something symbolizing BGLT pride to dinner Wednesday night. “Whatever the facts and the final resolution...
...President Barack Obama's green-energy rhetoric is on the level, this should be the year the U.S. gets clued in to what much of the rest of the world is already betting: that jatropha, like other nonfood sources such as algae, will revive a biofuels movement battered of late by charges that it diverts too many crops from too many mouths. India has set aside 100 million acres for jatropha and expects the oil to account for 20% of its diesel consumption by 2011. Australia, China, Brazil and Kenya have also embraced it. In December, a Boeing...
Indeed, women like Evita Dwiandiya, another student at Jakartadoyoga, say they will continue to attend their weekly yoga classes. "This is not a mass movement or anything," says Dwiandiya, who works in Jakarta's private sector. "We'll see if anybody remembers in three months." To be sure, with national elections coming up in April and the recriminations that usually follow, yoga is unlikely to register on the long list of problems facing Indonesia as the nation moves to choosing a new group of leaders for the next five years...
...Despite the severity of the downturn - and the size of today's protest - French leaders aren't beating a retreat. Heading into the strikes, Sarkozy sounded a conciliatory tone, assuring French citizens that he understood their problems, but also stressing that France can't "halt its reform movement...