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How to Help One of Nature’s Most Noble Creatures – The Hawksbill Sea Turtle

How to Help One of Nature’s Most Noble Creatures – The Hawksbill Sea Turtle

Waking Times

It is often easy to look at the problems in the world without seeing ways in which you can actively participate in solutions. Finding opportunities to roll up your sleeves and do some good in this world can be a very difficult thing to do, and for those … More

May 18, 2013 | By | Reply More
Will You Be At The International March Against Monsanto?

Will You Be At The International March Against Monsanto?

Heather Callaghan
Waking Times

Nick Bernabe, Emilie Rensick, and Tami Monroe Canal’s organizational and social media directing gifts have been pivotal in garnering support for one of the largest worldwide peaceful protests to date. Initiative from hundreds of activist organizers online, activist media writers and tens of thousands are sharing … More

May 18, 2013 | By | Reply More
The “Long Emergency,” Permaculture, and Towns that Food Saved

The “Long Emergency,” Permaculture, and Towns that Food Saved

Andrew Willner, Guest 
Waking Times

We live in dangerous times, when economic collapse, climate chaos, and peak oil threaten the foundations of society, abundance, and all we hold dear. “Business as usual” will no longer suffice, because that way leads to certain pain, peril and impoverishment.

Unspeakable acts of … More

May 17, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
From Mexico to India: Monsanto is Killing More Than Just Biodiversity

From Mexico to India: Monsanto is Killing More Than Just Biodiversity

Jen Wilton & Liam Barrington-Bush, Guests
Waking Times

In late April, world renowned Indian ‘seed activist’ Vandana Shiva travelled to the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca to join a gathering of Mexican farmers, indigenous leaders and environmentalists, fighting to protect Mexico’s native corn crops against the imposition of genetically modified … More

May 16, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
Colony Collapse Disorder Is a Fraud: Pesticides Cause Bee Die-Offs

Colony Collapse Disorder Is a Fraud: Pesticides Cause Bee Die-Offs

Heidi Stevenson, Green Med Info
Waking Times

Years ago, Gaia Health informed that bee dieoffs are a direct result of pesticide nerve agents called neonicotinoids. The term, Colony Collapse Disorder, is fraudulent, designed to direct attention from the known cause. Agribusiness, the poison manufacturers making death-producing pesticides, is the other More

May 16, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More
New Wind Power Design Results in 600x Increase in Power Production

New Wind Power Design Results in 600x Increase in Power Production

Christina Sarich, Contributor
Waking Times

While it isn’t free energy just yet, wind power is one of the many clean’er’ energies that can help to eliminate our dependence on the petro dollar and the many environmental and social problems that accompany an oil based society. Just one example of new … More

May 14, 2013 | By | 14 Replies More
Hemp Could Free Us From Oil, Prevent Deforestation, Cure Cancer and It’s Environmentally Friendly – So Why Is It Illegal?

Hemp Could Free Us From Oil, Prevent Deforestation, Cure Cancer and It’s Environmentally Friendly – So Why Is It Illegal?

Marco Torres, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

Hemp is a tall, beautiful and gracious looking annual plant that can reach heights over twelve feet. Although hemp (cannabis sativa) and marijuana (cannabis sativa var. indica) come from a similar species of plant, they are very different and confusion … More

May 14, 2013 | By | 27 Replies More
A Brief Introduction to Aquaponic Gardening

A Brief Introduction to Aquaponic Gardening

Jonathan Parker, Guest
Waking Times

Aquaponics is an amazing permaculture method that may have been practiced as far back in history as the Aztec civilization. There are records of the Aztec people raising fish alongside of crops that were alien to the growing environment, using the nitrite and ammonia rich … More

May 13, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More
Civil Disobedience or Death by Design

Civil Disobedience or Death by Design

Julian Rose, Contributor
Waking Times

Friends. How much time do we have left?

By my clock it’s five minutes past midnight. We are into unchartered territory. Territory where only bravery and vision can hope to cut through the torpor and stupor which is bringing about the designed obsolescence of the More

May 11, 2013 | By | 4 Replies More
Worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ Protests Planned for May 25th

Worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ Protests Planned for May 25th

Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society
Waking Times

Countless individuals will soon assemble in small and large groups around the nation and the globe alike in protest against Monsanto’s genetic manipulation of the food supply. Organized under the May 25th movement known as the ‘March on Monsanto’, the massive new rally … More

May 10, 2013 | By | 3 Replies More
How to Heal a Planet

How to Heal a Planet

Barbara H. Peterson, Guest
Waking Times

It starts with just one choice…

The gift of choice. Ah, yes, that almost always confusing void in the middle of “what should I do” in which one must make a decision. But are our everyday decisions really important? The answer is a resounding … More

May 10, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Why We Must Fight To Label GMOs

Why We Must Fight To Label GMOs

Peggy Gannon, Green Med Info
Waking Times

Since 1994 there’s been an unnatural new player on our grocery store shelves. GMO is short for “genetically modified organism.” It describes foods grown from seeds that have been altered through biotechnology to express certain desirable traits, such as pest resistance. Increasing concerns … More

May 10, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
How the Media Prevents Meaningful Discussion About the Condition of Our Environment

How the Media Prevents Meaningful Discussion About the Condition of Our Environment

Alex Pietrowski, Staff
Waking Times

For a normal human being who understands the value of having clean air and water to consume, clean soil to grow food in, and of living in a habitat that can support life, it is frustrating to watch one environmental calamity occur, after another without … More

May 9, 2013 | By | 16 Replies More
Consciousness and the Direction of Structure

Consciousness and the Direction of Structure

Tony Wright, Guest Writer
Waking Times

Solving the mystery of human evolution using Darwin’s basic theory required no more than a simple reinterpretation of existing data and the application of basic biological principles. The same approach simultaneously resolves several other major enigmas in disciplines rarely considered within the same context. … More

May 6, 2013 | By | 5 Replies More
Former Pro-GMO Scientist Speaks Out On The Real Dangers of Genetically Engineered Food

Former Pro-GMO Scientist Speaks Out On The Real Dangers of Genetically Engineered Food

Thierry Vrain, Prevent Disease
Waking Times

I retired 10 years ago after a long career as a research scientist for Agriculture Canada. When I was on the payroll, I was the designated scientist of my institute to address public groups and reassure them that genetically engineered crops and foods were … More

May 6, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Palm Oil Health Craze May Push Animals to Extinction While Destroying the Environment

Palm Oil Health Craze May Push Animals to Extinction While Destroying the Environment

Carolanne Wright, Natural News
Waking Times

Red palm oil has burst onto the health scene as a miracle food, helping to heal everything from cardiovascular disease to Alzheimer’s to cancer. However, as it becomes more popular worldwide, a dark secret has come to light. Due to its lucrative value, rainforests … More

May 3, 2013 | By | 1 Reply More
Is Free Energy a Hoax?

Is Free Energy a Hoax?

Christina Sarich, Contributor
Waking Times

According to some, free energy is a hoax, debunked first and foremost by the unbending laws of thermodynamics. If this is taken at face value, then some say we’re all being duped into believing that free energy exists, but, that capitalism is really the only … More

May 2, 2013 | By | 30 Replies More
Sand Land: Fracking Industry Mining Iowa’s Iconic Sand Bluffs in New Form of Mountaintop Removal

Sand Land: Fracking Industry Mining Iowa’s Iconic Sand Bluffs in New Form of Mountaintop Removal

Steve Horn & Trisha MarczakDe Smog Blog
Waking Times

Within immediate vicinity of a central battleground of the Black Hawk War of 1832, land rife with a resource necessary for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is in the crosshairs of an industry prepared to turn the area into a battle … More

May 2, 2013 | By | Reply More
Citizen Group Finds 30 Toxic Chemicals in Air Following Tar Sands Oil Spill in Arkansas

Citizen Group Finds 30 Toxic Chemicals in Air Following Tar Sands Oil Spill in Arkansas

Jeremy Hance, Mongabay
Waking Times

Independent air samples by locals have yielded “a soup of toxic chemicals” in Mayflower, Arkansas where an Exxon Mobil pipeline burst on March 29th spilling some 5,000 barrels of tar sands oil, known as bitumen. Chemicals detected included several linked to cancer, reproductive problems, and … More

May 1, 2013 | By | Reply More
Faster Drilling, Diminishing Returns in Shale Fracking Plays Nationwide?

Faster Drilling, Diminishing Returns in Shale Fracking Plays Nationwide?

Sharon Kelly, DeSmogBlog
Waking Times

Today’s shale gas boom has brought a surge of drilling across the US, driving natural gas prices to historic lows over the past couple of years. But, according to David Hughes, geoscientist and fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, in the future, we can … More

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