Today in eco-history: Dirty coal killed 45 Virginians
It became the worst disaster in the country in 1938 and one of the worst coal mining disasters in Virginia history.
Today in eco-history: Thoreau wrote "Wildness is the preservation of the world"
On this day in 1851 Henry David Thoreau posits in an address to the Concord Lyceum his famous thesis that "in Wildness is the preservation of the World."
People's World Google Hangout focuses on shutting down the Keystone XL
Part of the lead up to this week's demonstrations in Washington's against the XL Pipeline was an April 15 Google Hangout sponsored by the People's World.
On fourth anniversary of Gulf disaster EPA lets BP off the hook
Today is the fourth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed 11 workers and dumped more than 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a three month period in 2010.
Today in eco-history: Wilderness explorer John Muir born
Muir was a wilderness explorer and was the first Euro-American to explore Glacier Bay. In 1882 John Muir co-founded the Sierra Club with Professor Henry Senger, a philologist at UC Berkeley.
We are dead: Climate change and Guy McPherson
Climate change is the sickness of our civilization, and the prognosis is bleak.
North Dakota oil boom comes with a price
Not too long ago we were all marveling at the "wonderful" oil boom in North Dakota; as we should know from our own history, all booms come at a price, and they are paying that price now.
Today in eco-history: 1906 San Francisco earthquake
The tremor and fires resulting from it destroyed 80 percent of the city.
Today in eco-history: Volcanic eruption kills 90,000-plus
The volcano, which began rumbling on Apr. 5, killed almost 100,000 people directly and indirectly.
ATU, Sierra Cub to band together in pro-mass transit campaign
Calling themselves "natural partners," the Amalgamated Transit Union and the Sierra Club are banding together in a nationwide campaign.
