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...
Category - Energy & Resources
Drought-Stricken California Slated to Run Out of Water Soon — But is This a Man-Made Crisis?
27th October 2015 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Last March, NASA released shocking news: California has about one year left of stored water. To some, this may not be...
Cancer, Coverups and Contamination: The Real Cost of Nuclear Energy
By Contributing Writer Andreas Toupadakis Ph.D* and Andy Whiteley, Contributing writer for Wake Up World “When the Chernobyl accident happened some of the iodine...
Go With the Flow: Clean Energy From City Water Pipes Revolutionizes Hydroelectric Power
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A company in Portland, Oregon has harnessed a near perfect source of energy: the constant flow of running water found in city pipes. ...
Move Over Cotton, Say Hello to Hemp – The ‘Forbidden’ Crop That’s Taking the World by Storm
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The Declaration of Independence was drafted on it. The American Founding Fathers urged the fledgling country to grow it. And the first...
Fracking Creates Massive Radioactive Waste Problem
By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) openly acknowledges that fracking fluid contains “thousands of chemicals”, but...
Drought Stricken California Turns to Oil Industry Wastewater for Crop Irrigation
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World As drought persists in California, oil behemoth Chevron has found an new way to dispose of its fracking wastewater: sell it to U.S. farmers...
Fracking: Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “It was so bad sometimes that my daughter would be in the shower in the morning, and she’d have to get out of the shower and...
EPA Releases Report on Impacts of CSG Mining – You Should Be Fracking Concerned
By Lee “General” Maddox Guest Writer for Wake Up World The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just released their assessment of coal-seam gas mining —...
Beware – Our Water is Poisoned!
By Dr. Susan M. Walker Guest Writer for Wake Up World Where we stand now in 2015, everyone is drinking or absorbing poisoned water. Not just the usual poisons so many health advocates have spoken of...
Ocean “Fertilization” – Governments Geoengineering Our Oceans With Industrial Waste
By Dane Wigington Guest writer for Wake Up World Though many have now heard of the ongoing atmospheric chemical spraying known as solar radiation management (SRM) and stratospheric aerosol...
Don’t Trash That Plastic Bottle, Convert It Into Fuel Instead
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Rather than tossing your plastic garbage into a trash or recycling bin, imagine if you were able to easily, safely and economically...