Author Jeff Biggers shares his grandfather’s wisdom at HuffPo today:
All coal mining safety laws have been written in miners’ blood.
AFP on a huge lizard discovered in the Philippines:
The species is almost certainly critically endangered, and might well have disappeared entirely without ever being catalogued had a large male specimen not been rescued alive from a hunter last June.
Man’s complex working relationship with the planet described in two sentences. Energy and industry operate unsafe workplaces to maximize profit at the expense of native populations and future generations; the unchecked growth and poverty created by global races to the bottom create pressure to use even more resources. Without a collective human sense of responsibility for these activities, it is a road to annihilation.
