Max Wilbert: We Choose to Speak
By Max Wilbert / Deep Green Resistance Great Basin I’m writing this at 68 miles per hour in the left lane of I-5. The freeway is 8 lanes wide here, a laceration running north and south for 1500 miles....
View ArticleBREAKDOWN: Industrial Agriculture
By Joshua Headley / Deep Green Resistance New York In no other industry today is it more obvious to see the culmination of affects of social, political, economic, and ecological instability than in the...
View ArticleCherine Akkari: Local Food Systems in Quebec
By Cherine Akkari / Deep Green Resistance Over the past few decades, our food system has become increasingly globalized [10]. With the rise of agribusiness, the ability to transport food cheaply over...
View ArticleDominican Republic bulldozing wildlife preserve for agriculture
By Jeremy Hance / Mongabay Last Wednesday, bulldozers entered the Loma Charco Azul Biological Reserve (LCABR) in the Dominican Republic and began clearing vegetation for agricultural development. The...
View ArticleAbandoned Russian farmland soaks up 50 million tons of carbon every year
By John Upton / Grist When the USSR collapsed, the communal farming systems that helped feed the union’s citizens collapsed with it. Farmers abandoned 1 million acres of farmland and headed into the...
View ArticleMax Wilbert: Plows and Carbon: The Timeline of Global Warming
By Max Wilbert / Deep Green Resistance Great Basin In June 1988, climatologist and NASA scientist James Hansen stood before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the United States Senate. The...
View ArticleAfter four month blockade, Argentine activists win construction stoppage at...
By Inter Press Service Residents of a town in Argentina have won the first victory in their fight against biotech giant Monsanto, but they are still at battle stations, aware that winning the war is...
View ArticleFilm Review: Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds
By Norris Thomlinson / Deep Green Resistance Hawai’i Open Sesame examines the importance of seeds to humans as the genesis of nearly all our domesticated foods. It details the tremendous loss in...
View ArticleIndustrial civilization forcing 41% of amphibians, 26% of mammals to extinction
By Robin McKie / The Observer A stark depiction of the threat hanging over the world’s mammals, reptiles, amphibians and other life forms has been published by the prestigious scientific journal,...
View ArticleStudy finds agriculture and deforestation accelerate soil erosion 100 times...
By Joshua E. Brown / University of Vermont A new study shows that removing native forest and starting intensive agriculture can accelerate erosion so dramatically that in a few decades as much soil is...
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