http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/econuts/ en-us Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:57:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/565054/posts <p>HOUGHTON -- Federal and state law enforcement officials remained on the Michigan Tech University campus late Monday after bombs found at two university buildings were disarmed. Radical environmentalists are considered possible suspects, a county official said.</p> <p>The bombs, described by university spokesmen as the "real thing," were discovered early Monday morning by campus public safety officers at the U.J. Noblet Forestry Building and the U.S. Forest Service Engineering Laboratory.</p> DrudgeReport http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/565054/posts#comment Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:57:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026939/posts BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Climate change presents a tough choice for governments determined both to fight global warming and tackle the rising cost of living. Climate measures inflate energy costs by putting a price on burning fossil fuels and also stoke food bills by using farmland and crops to produce renewable fuels. Now near-record oil and food prices coupled with a global economic slowdown have triggered unrest in several countries and demands to ease taxes on fuels and free up farmland for food. "This important part of the global economy, food and energy, has been grossly distorted due to under-pricing... Rooters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026939/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 09:51:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019677/posts On the evening of Monday, May 19th, the newly formed River City Animal Defense League (ADL) and friends made our public debut. We took to the neighborhoods, and more specifically the houses of executives and contractors of Gohmann Asphalt and Construction, Inc. Gohmann Asphalt and Construction, Inc. is a disgusting company that has decided to proceed with business in the construction of Interstate-69 (I-69) which is the North American Free Trade Agreement's (NAFTA) superhighway. NAFTA’s superhighway has already been built from Ontario to Indianapolis. It is planned to extend into Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Once in Texas... Infoshop News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019677/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 14:18:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013402/posts An environmental activist has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison for conspiring to destroy a Northern California dam, a genetics lab and other targets. Eric McDavid, 29, of Foresthill, was convicted in March for masterminding what FBI agents described as an eco-terrorist plot in the name of the Earth Liberation Front. The group has claimed credit for arsons across the West. McDavid's defense lawyer argued that his client was a victim of entrapment by an FBI informant. Two co-conspirators pleaded guilty and testified against McDavid. They are awaiting sentencing. According to court testimony, the three considered bombing... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013402/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 02:08:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003772/posts Psychology: The alarms that environmental extremists have sounded have given rise to a market for therapists who treat eco-anxiety. What a concept! Scare the wits out of people, then make money off their fear.It's possible that none of the 100 or so "eco-therapists" practicing in the U.S. have been part of the environmentalist shock campaign. Or it could be that, at more than $100 an hour, these practitioners are simply taking advantage of others' weaknesses. But given that the treatments they're prescribing — taking shorter showers, turning off lights, making do with less — are scrawled on the stone tablet... IBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003772/posts#comment Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:48:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998568/posts Yesterday, Post readers were moved by the image of our Prime Minister, in Poland on April 5, kneeling at the Death Wall of Auschwitz, the worst of the Holocaust extermination camps. In the museum guest book he wrote, "Lord, bless the souls of those who suffered and perished here, and deliver us from evil." Prime Minister Stephen Harper pays tribute to Holocaust victim at Auschwitz.Peter Andrews/Reuters. Stephen Harper's prayerful posture and traditional words of commemoration for the lost souls of a barbaric era reveal a sensibility noticeably out of sync with the religion of environmentalism that presently dominates our culture.... The National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998568/posts#comment Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:48:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994658/posts A group of environmental activists has enlisted Google to help flood the congressional switchboard with one million phone calls on Earth Day urging lawmakers to enact eco-friendly measures. "We're really excited about this because Congress keeps saying they don't hear from the American public on climate change," said Kathleen Rogers, president of Earth Day Network, which bills itself as an eco-activism group connecting some 17,000 organizations in 174 countries. "The [presidential] candidates are not being asked about climate change. Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity that we've ever faced." Rogers said her group is finalizing talks with Internet... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994658/posts#comment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:05:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986385/posts Sen. John McCain and his staff have been adamant for days that his upcoming overseas trip to Britain, France and Israel is not political. /snip ...Apparently, though, there will still be room for fundraising. McCain's campaign has sent out an invitation for a March 20 luncheon at Spencer House -- the neo-classical home built for an ancestor of Diana, the late Princess of Wales -- "by kind permission of Lord Rothschild OM GBE and the Hon. Nathaniel Rothschild." The price to attend is $1000 to $2,300. And the dress code for the event? "Lounge suits" -- British for business... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986385/posts#comment Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:12:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953576/posts Solving the energy problem is easy if you pay no attention to the laws of physics. That's the wonder of our Congress. To pass is easy; to achieve is something else. This is where I break your green heart. You know that Congress passed a law ordering all cars and trucks to average 35 miles to the gallon by 2020. It won't happen. Another part of that law mandates the production of 36 billion gallons a year of biofuels by 2022. That won't happen either. It's not that automakers [] are just mean and don't want to do it. They... Forbes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953576/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:38:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994200/posts Wolf Kill Has Ranchers Demanding Re-introduced Wolves Removed By Jon Hanian Burgdorf, ID - The aftermath of a wolf pack attack that occurred last month north of McCall near Burgdorf has left 55 sheep dead and more than dozen maimed. The attacked, which has been confirmed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, has also galvanized groups opposed to the federal government's efforts to re-establish grey wolves in the state. Ron Gillett heads up the Anti Wolf Coalition of Central Idaho. Gillett says a band of 100 sheep were attacked on September 18th by that wolf pack. "Where they... kbci http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994200/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2003 04:34:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941747/posts The fastest eco boat on the planet will attempt to break the round the world speed record using fuel made from human fat. Pete Bethune, the New Zealand skipper of Earthrace, said the attempt to circumnavigate the globe would begin from Valencia in Spain on March 1 next year. Bethune and his wife mortgaged their house and sold everything they own to help make the project happen, while continuing to seek support from sponsors. Record breaking attempt: Earthrace will attempt to circumnavigate the globe running 100 per cent biodiesel, and with a net zero carbon-footprint Earthrace is a 78 foot... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941747/posts#comment Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:19:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941605/posts The success of the major Anglosphere nations at last week's United Nations climate conference in Bali marks the beginning of the end of the age of climate hysteria. It also symbolizes a significant shift of political leadership in international climate diplomacy from the once-dominating European continent to North America and its Western allies. This power shift has perhaps never been more transparent and dramatic than in Bali, when Australia's Labour government, under the newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, announced a complete U-turn on the thorny issue of mandatory carbon dioxide emissions targets. Only days after Australia's delegation had backed... Financial Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941605/posts#comment Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:16:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930112/posts PRAY - For rancher Randy Petrich, the removal of gray wolves from the endangered-species list - a move that would open up the animals to hunting in the Northern Rockies for the first time in decades - couldn't come soon enough. Petrich has seen fresh wolf tracks almost every morning this fall - close enough to threaten his cattle. "I believe that any wolf on any given night, if there happens to be a calf there, they will kill it," ... Just 12 years since the wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park ... federal officials say the sharp rise... Associated Press...The Billings Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930112/posts#comment Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:50:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891330/posts The federal government and a conservation group have reached a settlement agreement that creates protections for two endangered species that call the waters off the Florida Keys home. The Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity had filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service for not doing enough to protect several endangered species including elkhorn and staghorn coral and smalltooth sawfish. The National Marine Fisheries Service on Friday agreed to a timetable for designating critical habitat for sawfish and coral, which are at risk of extinction. The Endangered Species Act requires critical habitat designation for species as soon as they... Keysnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891330/posts#comment Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:13:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886678/posts The damage wrought by hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in 2005 spelled the end of the venerable Flamingo Lodge at Everglades National Park. Now as park officials consider options for a replacement, they have to factor in more than just the dangers of inundation from a storm surge. On the northern edge of Florida Bay, Flamingo, and other vast tracts of the 1.5-million-acre park, are threatened by global warming-induced sea level rise, officials say. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change earlier this year estimated that oceans will rise between 7 inches and 23 inches over the course of this century... keysnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886678/posts#comment Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:11:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881909/posts BY TIMOTHY O'HARA Citizen Staff Monroe County may seek national park status for some sensitive wetlands and animal habitat to thwart potential, costly property-rights lawsuits from landowners who wouldn't be able to develop under proposed growth regulations. If the county approves the latest Tier System maps, which show where building is allowed and prohibited, it could face $1 billion in lawsuits, according to a proposal Growth Management Director Andrew Trivette presented to the County Commission on Wednesday. National park status must be approved by a congressional act, which could take years, Trivette said. Congress either could create a new national... keysnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881909/posts#comment Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:53:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879127/posts Natural weather variations have offset the effects of global warming for the past couple of years and will continue to keep temperatures flat through 2008, a study released Thursday said. But global warming will begin in earnest in 2009, and a couple of the years between 2009 and 2014 will eclipse 1998, the warmest year on record to date, in the heat stakes, British meteorologists said. Existing global climate computer models tend to underestimate the effects of natural forces on climate change, so for this analysis, Met Office experts tweaked their model to better reflect the impact of weather systems... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879127/posts#comment Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:46:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878004/posts Never mind higher temperatures, climate change has a few nastier surprises in store. Bill McGuire says we can also expect more earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis. Unlike most apparently intractable problems, which have a tendency to go away when examined closely and analytically, the climate change predicament just seems to get bigger and scarier the more we learn about it. Now we discover that not only are the oceans and the atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms, floods and ever-climbing sea levels, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too. Guardian Unlimited http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878004/posts#comment Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:01:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847930/posts In the matter of "greenhouse gases," carbon dioxide is, shall we say, the gas du jour. We should surely be up to date and knowledgeable on CO2, which is said to be forming a kind of blanket which prevents the escape of all this global heat to outer space. So can I table the question: How does the carbon dioxide get up there? Carbon dioxide is one-and-a-half times heavier than air. I doubt even Al Gore would try to challenge that. So why doesn't it just lie around at ground level like autumn mist, and, of course, choke us all... National Post [Canada] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847930/posts#comment Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:59:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847358/posts June 8, 2007 A snapshot of America, June 2007 Thanks to online shopping, I rarely head into bookstores, but today I needed to buy a gift in a hurry and so I ventured into one - the place was empty and I found what I needed quickly and then browsed a bit. While the temperature outside was only about 73 degrees, the day was humid and the store felt very warm to me. We don’t have central air in the house, just ceiling fans, and they pretty much do the trick, but when I’m shopping, I like to feel cool... http://theanchoressonline.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847358/posts#comment Sat, 9 Jun 2007 02:15:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845356/posts PARTICIPANTS in a ritualistic ceremony danced, chanted and played drums while one of their friends lay dying from heat exhaustion, an inquest has heard. Deputy State Coroner Anthony Schapel today was told the group believed Rowan Douglas Cooke was "astral-travelling" after being exposed to extreme heat inside a North American Indian-style "steam lodge". Mr Cooke, 37, of Melbourne, spent several hours unconscious at a campsite 325km north of Port Augusta, before two men went to a nearby homestead for help. He had t Adelaide Now (Austrailia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845356/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:55:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833959/posts EUGENE, Ore. - Their guilt isn't in question. The six men and four women already admitted being involved in a series of arson fires that did $40 million in damage to research facilities, a ski resort and other businesses in the West. But are they terrorists as the government says? A federal judge was set to hear arguments Tuesday on a motion by the government to add a so-called terrorism enhancement to their sentences. Prosecutors want Judge Ann Aiken to declare the group terrorists — something defense attorneys argue has never happened in 1,200 arsons nationwide claimed by Earth Liberation... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833959/posts#comment Tue, 15 May 2007 16:56:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1833251/posts Catron County Manager Bill Aymar says officials only want to prevent problems by asking the federal government to remove a pregnant female Mexican gray wolf released on the county's border after it killed two cows elsewhere. But Victoria Fox, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, says the agency has no reason to remove the wolf. The dispute over the animal -- designated F924 -- began as soon as it was released April 25 in southwestern New Mexico. The next day, the county demanded it be removed as an "imminent danger." Fish and Wildlife rejected the demand last... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1833251/posts#comment Mon, 14 May 2007 14:40:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830044/posts The Misanthropes By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 4:20 PM PT Eco-Radicals: They've long been with us, those who would rid Earth of humans. But now, thanks to some media currency, we can see where the environmental movement is headed. Encouraging families to have fewer children seems innocuous, perhaps thoughtful. It's easy to dismiss those who support such measures as harmless busybodies, not ill-willed environmentalists. Beware, however, of apparent banality. Groups such as England's Optimum Population Trust have to be subtle. While a planet with few people — or perhaps no people — is their ideal,... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830044/posts#comment Tue, 8 May 2007 10:11:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826904/posts BUENA VISTA, COLO.—You can huff and you can puff but you will never be able to blow down the walls of the Las Manos Bed and Breakfast in Buena Vista, Colo. The walls are made of straw. Well, mostly. They are actually constructed from bales of straw and covered with concrete stucco. They are solid, fire proof, and have an energy efficient insulation value of R-50. The unique exterior wall structure is just one of the fascinating elements of the B&B set within view of Colorado’s majestic 14,000-foot peaks. The 2,600-square-foot home, which includes two large suites ranging from 600... Green Lodging News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826904/posts#comment Wed, 2 May 2007 01:50:50 GMT