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- California Burning, PG&E Bankrupt
Resource Type: Article Published: 2019 A synopsis of PG&E's history of negligence and corruption which has caused wildfire disasters. The company tries to escape consequences but others are demanding change.
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- Corporate Welfare in the Forest
Post-Fire Logging Loses Money and Damages the Health of the Ecosystem Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The Forest Service is under extreme political pressure to log our national patrimony, whether it makes any economic or ecological sense. A good example of a needless, ecologically damaging, and economically wasteful logging proposal is the proposed $1.4 million Pole Creek post-fire logging sale.
- The Heat Is On
The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
- Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Fire is raging across the 5,000km length of Indonesia.It is hard to convey the scale of this inferno, but heres a comparison that might help: it is currently producing more carbon dioxide than the US economy. And in three weeks the fires have released more CO2 than the annual emissions of Germany.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
Forests and trees Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
- Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Bond exposes three prevailing falsehoods about logging that the U.S. Forest Service disseminates.
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
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