Earth First! 29, no. 3
Earth First! 29, no. 3 features the subjects of old-growth swamps in Florida, the Mexican Leather Expo, child education in a radical community, and the parallels between animal and earth defense.
Earth First! 29, no. 3 features the subjects of old-growth swamps in Florida, the Mexican Leather Expo, child education in a radical community, and the parallels between animal and earth defense.
Earth First! 29, no. 4 features articles on the new Wilderness Act, the myth of clean coal, coal in West Virginia, the endangered species wolf and lynx in the United States, and fur farm raids and investigations in Utah.
Earth First! Journal 31, no. 4 features “An EF!ers Guide to Citizen Monitoring of Water Pollution Discharge Permits,” as well as essays on GPS tracking, border policy, and “Canopy Occupation Against Coal.”
The film tells the story of the town Most in Northern Bohemia, destroyed in the quest for coal.
Vaclav Smil shows why energy transitions are inherently complex and prolonged affairs, and how ignoring this raises unrealistic expectations that the United States and other global economies can be weaned quickly from a primary dependency on fossil fuels.
Piper argues that coal has played an important role in Alberta’s history, although it receives less attention than the oil sands. Coal has been essential to Alberta’s economy and the industry has benefited from government support, although from the 1970s this came into conflict with growing grassroots environmentalism. Whether the coal industry can withstand recent political and economic changes, however, remains to be seen.
This issue of Earth First! News chronicles direct action and events on fracking, anti-coal, -logging, and -mining, wildlife, pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and the Earth First! Prisoner Support Project, from March to July 2012.
Susie Hatmaker investigates the largest flood of coal ash in United States history in 2008 as an event at once monumental and insignificant.
In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.
Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy.