No Shortage of Energy. According to Ed Hunt of Tidepool News Service, there is plenty of energy in the world. Energy sources such as wind, or solar energy, for example, are often invisible until we find the right trick to tap their power. If there is an energy crisis it is because we are plugged into the wrong type of energy. Most of the energy on the grid is the kind that stinks up the skies, alters the engine of our climate and poisons the rain. We move fuel for it on ships that foul our oceans and in pipelines that explode in our backyards. We’re clearly addicted to the wrong stuff. But according to David Francis of the Christian Science Monitor, there seems to be a move to go in exactly the opposite direction – burn more coal and reactivate nuclear plants. Most human beings are fine individually, but collectively (if actions of their elected officials is any indication) appear to be not only utterly stupid but suicidal to boot.
Dangerous Criminal Apprehended. Betty Krawczyk, a 72 year old grandmother, was sentenced to a year in jail (with no time off for good behavior) for peacefully protesting old growth logging in British Columbia’s Elaho Valley. Said Ms. Krawczyk, "Peaceful protest on a logging road is considered more heinous than actual criminal activity such as Hell’s Angels dealing drugs, because drug dealers don’t challenge corporate values." – from Native Forest Bulletin
Insurance Branching Out. A boycott of John Hancock Insurance Company is called for because a subsidiary company is doing devastating ecological damage in Australia and New Zealand by the logging of ecologically crucial forest and then replanting the land with genetically modified trees. Hancock logging operations are also extensive in the US and are being closely monitored by forest activists. It is unfortunate that the financing of this devastating exploitation is mostly coming for the retirement accounts of persons such as teachers. -- From Native Forest News.