By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The Big “If” The history of marijuana and hemp prohibition is a dark and shady story with all the makings of a...
Category - Environment
Wake Up World’s articles on environmental issues and humanity’s relationship with our Mother Earth.
Fukushima: 5 Years of Fire – Global Day of Action, March 11, 2016
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Happy New Year! No, I’m not talking about 2016, I’m talking about Year 5. Fukushima, Year 5. It’s almost 5 years...
Massive Methane Leak in California Forces Residents to Flee Homes, Schools
20th January 2016 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Classified as one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters since the Deepwater Horizon 2010 BP oil spill, a...
The Fracking Industry’s Answer to Toxic Wastewater: Spray It On Public Roadways
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Just when we thought it couldn’t get much worse on the fracking front — polluted groundwater, poisoned environment...
Clean and Green — Dutch Company Powers Gadgets and Street Lights with Living Plants
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Could living plants be the future of electricity? If the folks at Plant-e have anything to say about it, the answer is a resounding YES. To...
Groundbreaking Study Maps the Decline of Wild Bee Communities in the United States
By Christina Lavers Contributing Writer for Wake Up World By now most of us are aware that the humble bee is not only responsible for creating one of the most natural, health giving, and ...
Monsanto Charged With Crimes Against Nature and Humanity, Set to Stand Trial in 2016
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World People are fed-up. And angry. We simply no longer accept that corporations have the right to ride roughshod over the environment or...
The Eco-Modernist Manifesto: a Program of Genocide and Ecocide
By Derrick Jensen BSc. Guest Writer for Wake Up World The idea that anthropocene — the human alteration of natural ecosystems — can be good or even great, as...
Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes and Moths Ready to Spread Like Wildfire
21st December 2015 By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest Writer for Wake Up World While countries around the globe are still assessing the risks – and experiencing the environmental backlash...
A Green Christmas: Gift Ideas for a Sustainable Holiday Season
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...
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...