Financed by the Other Amazon Paying for Its Name It should be possible to pay to fully protect the Amazon rainforest while meeting local people’s needs. The best place to start is for online Amazon Inc. to pay on a sustained basis for its long overdue unpaid expropriation of the Amazon name. Transforming Amazon Inc.…… Continue reading Amazon Standing
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Global Ecological Restoration: The Leaves of the Tree Will Heal the Nations
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit…… Continue reading Global Ecological Restoration: The Leaves of the Tree Will Heal the Nations
On Amazon Fires: It’s the Ecology Stupid
Global Ecological Sustainability depends critically upon ending the logging and burning of old forests and letting them recover, expand and reconnect “Each act of cutting and burning old trees diminishes and contributes to the pending collapse of the biosphere… The cutting and burning of old forests ends, as a prominent aspect of the coming Great…… Continue reading On Amazon Fires: It’s the Ecology Stupid
VICTORY! Thrilling Rainforest Victory for Karawari Indigenous Cave Art, the Great Nation of Papua New Guinea, and EcoInternet
Australian Broadcasting Corporation media coverage – So incredibly gratifying to be called out by renowned anthropologist Nancy Sullivan – simply an amazing woman – for having helped protect ancient cave art and surrounding rainforests. Much work to be done to make Karawari a conservation area. (Honolulu, Hawaii) – EcoInternet is thrilled to announce that our…… Continue reading VICTORY! Thrilling Rainforest Victory for Karawari Indigenous Cave Art, the Great Nation of Papua New Guinea, and EcoInternet
Love in the Time of Ebola
Overpopulation, ecosystem loss, climate change, and Ebola itself are all growing exponentially. The human family must come together now to stop Ebola in West Africa or risk a global pandemic that could potentially kill billions – even as we commit post-Ebola to solving the disease’s root causes of rainforest loss, poverty, war and inequitable overpopulation.…… Continue reading Love in the Time of Ebola
EcoInternet Hails Victory Protecting Virunga National Park and Gorillas from SOCO Oil
Vital precedents set that rainforests and oil don’t mix, global people power can protect local ecosystems, and all remaining old-growth forests must be protected from industrial development By EcoInternet – http://EcoInternet.org/ British oil company SOCO International has cancelled plans to explore for oil in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park [1]. EcoInternet (then…… Continue reading EcoInternet Hails Victory Protecting Virunga National Park and Gorillas from SOCO Oil
EARTH MEANDERS: The Great Rainforest Heist
How environmental groups gone bad greenwash logging Earth's last primary old forests Essay by Dr. Glen Barry, EcoInternet Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk SummaryMost major environmental NGOs – including Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network in particular – are deeply involved with efforts to “sustainably” industrially log Earth's last primary and old-growth forests. Through…… Continue reading EARTH MEANDERS: The Great Rainforest Heist
RELEASE: Today as Rainforest Action Network and Awardee Naomi Klein REVEL, Primary Rainforests Continue to Be Destroyed in Their Names
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of EcoInternet http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/ CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org – Once again EcoInternet's true global rainforest action network questions the dominate paradigm that primary rainforests exist to be industrially logged [search]. The Rainforest Action Network and Forest Stewardship Council are first time industrial primary forest logging which must end immediately. Standing,…… Continue reading RELEASE: Today as Rainforest Action Network and Awardee Naomi Klein REVEL, Primary Rainforests Continue to Be Destroyed in Their Names
RELEASE/VICTORY: Papua New Guinea Begins Commission of Inquiry into Rainforest Land Grabs
By Earth's Newsdesk and the Rainforest Portal, projects of EcoInternet javascript:void(0); CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org Once again EcoInternet's true global rainforest action network contributes to questioning and obstructing the dominate paradigm that primary rainforests exist to be industrially logged Papua New Guinea has launched a Commission of Inquiry into foreign land grabs of pristine,…… Continue reading RELEASE/VICTORY: Papua New Guinea Begins Commission of Inquiry into Rainforest Land Grabs
RELEASE/VICTORY: Ecuador Sets Major Rainforest and Climate Protection Precedent
By Earth's Newsdesk and the Rainforest Portal, projects of EcoInternet CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org It is reported Ecuador will be compensated for leaving oil reserves in Yasuni National Park untouched. This is a major victory for Ecuador, the rainforest movement, and EcoInternet -; who was the first to campaign internationally on the issue. Ecuador's…… Continue reading RELEASE/VICTORY: Ecuador Sets Major Rainforest and Climate Protection Precedent