Khimki Forest Defenders Felled by Kremlin, but Struggle Will Continue

A decision to halt the construction of a highway that would cut through Moscow’s Khimki forest earlier this year has been overturned. Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Sergei Ivanov, announced last week that the development would go ahead as planned, adding that, “additional…
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by: Adam Federman – December 20, 2010

Choose Your Friends Wisely

Radical eco-activist imprisoned for “friending” Mike Roselle

For years, Rod Coronado was the unofficial bad boy of the radical environmental movement. As a teenager he cut his teeth with the now well known Sea Shepherd Society and, in 1986, participated in a risky act of eco-sabotage: taking aim at…
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by: Adam Federman – August 31, 2010

In Russia, A Victory For Civil Society

Khimki Highway Construction On Hold

A long running battle over the construction of a highway through Moscow’s Khimki forest has taken a surprising turn. Earlier this week I wrote about the broad based campaign to save one of Moscow’s few remaining green belts and old growth oak…
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by: Adam Federman – August 27, 2010

Russia’s Forest Defenders

Campaign to save Moscow's Khimki forest heats up

This story first appeared at Waging Nonviolence. As Russia’s forests go up in flames, a group of activists and environmentalists is struggling to protect one of Moscow’s few remaining green belts and stands of old growth oaks. This time the threat isn’t…
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by: Adam Federman – August 24, 2010

The Upper Delaware’s Last Stand

Threat of Gas Drilling Earns River Most Endangered Status

Just outside of the town of Hancock, New York, on a narrow dirt road that follows the east branch of the Delaware River, you can find a harmless looking wooden stake that demarcates the future site of a natural gas well. It…
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by: Adam Federman – June 2, 2010

To Drill or Not to Drill

A Natural Gas Rush in the Northeast Is Forcing Farmers to Choose Between Income and Land.

  When Joyce Stone and her husband moved to Dimock, Pennsylvania 34 years ago, they found themselves in the middle of what would be the first of many environmental battles. It was not long after the oil shock of 1973 and there were plans to build a massive energy park in nearby Ararat consisting of ten nuclear and ten coal-fired power plants. Stone and her husband opposed the idea, and together with…
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by: Adam Federman – Spring 2010

USDA Pressured to Regulate Commercial Bumble bee Industry

In the early 1990s, the USDA conducted risk assessments of the interstate transport of bumble bees for commercial greenhouse pollination, particularly tomatoes. Because of the risk of introducing non-native pests and diseases into new areas, they concluded that commercially reared bumble bees…
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by: Adam Federman – January 19, 2010

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