Environment

How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change

BY ALLAN SAVORY, TED Talks Savory offers a solution to desertification (and thus climate change) that can be accepted by the main stream. There’s an option that Savory doesn’t consider: allowing herds and pack predators ...

May, 08

CLICK HERE for Climate Catastrophe

BY SHANNON CAIN, Occupied Tucson Citizen Net Worth Who knows? Clue: he owns one of America’s largest automotive groups, with over 1,000 employees and $315 million in annual revenues. Business model: it’s all about the ...

Apr, 19

Environmental Justice and the Psychology of Occupy (edit)

BY DAVE EWOLDT, Occupied Tucson Citizen This is an edit as it appeared in print, the full version of the article is available here—Ed Even with the growth of ecological awareness people still need persuading. ...

Apr, 19

Environmental Justice and the Psychology of Occupy

BY DAVE EWOLDT, Occupied Tucson Citizen I was invited to participate on a panel led by indigenous activist, author and poet Dorinda Moreno of Fuerza Mundial Global/Pueblos en Movimento, “Indigenous Psychologies and the Occupy Movement: ...

Feb, 24

Senate Bill 1180: Should Arizona Label Genetically Modified foods?

BY CHARLES PARKE, Occupied Tucson Citizen Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are plants and animals in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally. This process allows selected ...

Feb, 14

Mining Protests in Bisbee

BY A LONE PROTESTER On Saturday, December 15, a group of Occupy Phoenix members drove down to Bisbee to take part in protests against the ALEC-affiliated mining company Freeport McMoran, whose pollution of the local ...

Dec, 30

Climate Activists Arrested at TEP Plant

TEXT BY GREG EVANS PHOTOS BY WILLIAM BEAVER Three activists were arrested Thursday, October 4, in an action at Tucson Electric Power’s (TEP) Sundt Generating Station at Irvington and Alvernon. It was the first civil ...

Oct, 18