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Deal Is No Deal: Leaders 'Save Face' While Biosphere Burns
http://www.commondreams.or g/headline/2009/12/18-11 Civil Society Comes Together for 'Vigil of Survival' http://www.commo ndreams.org/video/2009/12/ 18-2 Obama's Speech Disappoints and Fuels Frustration... ...
UN: One Billion People Are Hungry Every Day
Alessandra Rizzo, The Associated Press: "The global financial meltdown has pushed the ranks of the world's hungry to a record one billion, a grim milestone that poses a threat to peace and security, UN... ...
World Hunger Reaches the 1 Billion People Mark
More than a billion people - a sixth of the world's population - are now hungry, a historic high due largely to the global economic crisis and stubbornly high food prices, a U.N. agency said Friday. http://abcnews.go .com/International/wireSto ry?id=7879289 From... ...
Biofuel from Corn Ethanol Is Not Renewable, Does Not Address Climate Change
Unique opportunity this week (by 24th) to setback food and ecosystem based biofuels. Please take action and forward now! And the other alerts to which you are forwarded still need sending too. Dr. Glen... ...
Trickle Down Misery
Analysis by Abid Aslam Soaring food and fuel prices pushed 130 million to 155 million people in developing countries into poverty in 2008 and the World Bank reckons another 53 million people could join... ...
World stability hangs by a thread as economies continue to unravel
The political bubble is bursting. Spreads on geo-strategic risk are now widening as dramatically as the spreads on financial risk at the onset of the credit crunch. http://tinyurl.co m/6kouov China... ...
92 nations sign cluster-bomb ban; US, Russia don’t
Lewiston Sun Journal 12/03/08 An Afghan teenager who lost both legs in a cluster bomb explosion helped persuade his country to change its stance and join nearly 100 nations in signing a treaty Wednesday... ...
Financial crisis may worsen food crunch it eclipsed
Christian Science Monitor 12/02/08 Call it crisis eclipse. The global food crisis that dominated headlines earlier this year has been overshadowed by this fall’s financial crisis, but it continues... ...
Children Dying in Haiti, Victims of Food Crisis
Long live Haiti! Famine in Haiti Made In The U.S.A By G. Dunkel In Baie d'Orange, a community of 20,000 associated with the municipality of Belle-Anse in southeast Haiti, 16 children and two adults... ...
Farmer in Chief
Michael Pollan, The New York Times: "Dear Mr. President-Elect, It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during... ...