By Jack Adam Weber Contributing Writer for Wake Up World With the holidays swiftly approaching, we should be seriously considering where to cast our purchase-power votes. Already the pollution...
Category - Environment
Wake Up World’s articles on environmental issues and humanity’s relationship with our Mother Earth.
Urban Edible Forests: The Future of Food is Here!
By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World “A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes...
The Girls and the Grasses: The Psychology of Patriarchy and Environmental Degradation
By Lierre Keith Guest Writer for Wake Up World Captured in a test tube, blood may look like a static liquid, but it’s alive, as animate and intelligent as the rest of you. It also makes up a...
Why “Sustainable Development” is a Lie
13th December 2015 By Derrick Jensen B.Sc Guest Writer for Wake Up World “Sustainable development” is a claim to virtue, but the word “development” used in this...
Public Lands Slated for Deforestation and Monsanto Herbicide Spray Ignites Community Outcry
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World In a move that defies logic by authorities in the field, an area in Northern California, United States, has received federal...
Forget Shorter Showers – Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Social Change
By Derrick Jensen B.Sc Guest Writer for Wake Up World The Misdirected Environmental Movement Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have...
US Government Places “Gag Order” on Weather Agency Employees, Inserts Geoengineering Propaganda into ‘Common Core’ Syllabus
By Dane Wigington Guest Writers for Wake Up World Government Implements Illegal “Gag Order” on National Weather Service and NOAA Employees The power structure is beginning to panic as...
City of Oakland Joins the Fight Against Monsanto, Sues for PCB Contamination
26th November 2015 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “Agrochemical giant Monsanto knowingly contaminated Oakland’s storm water and the San Francisco Bay with a...
Brazil’s Mining Dam Failure: a “Slow-Motion Environmental Catastrophe”
24th November 2015 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Nine people are dead, with an additional 19 unaccounted, following two iron ore mining dams bursting in Brazil’s...
We Must Reclaim True Environmentalism!
By Derrick Jensen & Lierre Keith Guest Writers for Wake Up World True environmentalism is not about making our rapacious and destructive industrialism a little more sustainable, but...
Is Wi-Fi Killing Trees?
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The health-damaging effects of wireless technology has been a hotly debated topic in scientific circles for years now. Linked with increased...
City Residents Exposed to Cancer-Causing Chemicals as City Officials Secretly Test Drinking Water Additives
16th November 2015 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World As if California doesn’t have enough worries with its current record-breaking drought, a city in...