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Showing videos filed under: earth day
Mike Papantonio, Maude Barlow & Shannon Biggs, and Investing at Home
April 20, 2011"BP has gotten away with this, the government has helped them get away with it, we can't even get cooperation from the government to test the carcasses of dead mammals washing up on the shore because they're joined at the hip with BP," says Mike Papantonio, radio host and attorney representing Gulf Coast residents.Shannon Biggs & Maude Barlow: Recognizing the Rights of Nature
April 20, 2011"The real issue here is that modern humanity looks at nature as a great big resource for our pleasure, profit and convenience, and we do whatever we want with it. We're in trouble," says Maude Barlow of our current relationship with the our natural world. She and Shannon Biggs have spearheaded the discussion over the legal rights of nature, a discussion that has gone all the way to United Nations, where arguments are now being heard.Putting a Price on Climate Change
April 21, 2010The People’s World Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba, Bolivia kicks off this week (and we will have more from there soon), but you wouldn't know it from the media here in the U.S. Despite the 40th anniversary of Earth Day this month, the subject seems to be falling by the wayside as financial regulation takes center stage.John Fugelsang, Climate Change, and Coal Goes Shopping
April 20, 2010Gun advocates rallied this week in support of their right to bear arms, the Pope has said that his church has sinned, Goldman Sachs is giving out bonuses in the throes of SEC charges, and laptops are taking pictures of kids while they sleep! This may sound like a vision of the end times, but really it's just another week in the news these days.
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