Hello
This is RAGE - Radio Against Global Ecocide
And you should be enraged.
Coming to you from occupied Amiskwacîwâskahikan
I am your host Seymour Lyphe.
And a special hello to all those still willing to fight and do the right thing.
This is the OMG they didn’t. It flew under my radar (I stopped watching George a while ago) until last Sunday I saw this story
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Boreal+efforts+draw+praise/3233847/story.html on the boreal forest. My hackle instantly rose.
Then yesterday I saw Green is the Colour of Money on Submedia TV and
I listened to lecture By Stoneleigh of The Automation Earth night before which you listen to either here or here.
As a result I came to a very sad conclusion about the environment moment and its further fragmentation.
I will let my story/show do the talking.
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Also go and listen to my interviews with Aric McBay as a number of the issues are highlighted in our talks
“…the popularity of stupid an idea doesn’t make it any less stupid.
…the world is full of very bad ideas that are accepted as conventional wisdom, so watch out for them and come to your own conclusions.” – Dmitry Orlov
Now more than every the resistance needs you!! We have been Betrayed!!
Betrayed by these organizations; the Boreal forest has been betrayed by these organizations:
Canadian Boreal Initiative, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Canopy, David Suzuki Foundation, ForestEthics, Greenpeace, The Nature Conservancy, Pew Environment Group International Boreal Conservation Campaign, and Ivey Foundation
Green is the Color of Money
an other part of the END:CIV project ( and please support this project)
You can go to the Devil’s handshake website here:
The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement
It is interesting that of the 5 footnotes 4 and 5 are the same.
Here is a sample:
3 For areas proposed as potential protected areas under the CBFA, it is the intent of the signatories that protected areas are areas free of industrial activity.Circumstances may occur where management activity (e.g. timber harvesting) is mandated by government to address forest health considerations. It is recognizedthat ENGOs do not support any industrial activity in protected areas and, as a result, may publicly oppose such management activity mandated by a government. At the same time, it is also recognized that as a result of potential implications of forest health considerations to timber values outside protected areas, FPAC and FPAC Members may publicly support such management activity mandated by a government. Neither ENGO opposition nor FPAC/FPAC Member support for such management activity mandated by a government shall be considered contrary to the spirit and intent of the CBFA.
4 When it comes to dealing with government processes, any principles, criteria, methodologies specified in the CBFA or developed by FPAC, FPAC Members, and ENGOs under the CBFA are intended as input only, are not intended to be determinative, and are intended as a piece of information that can be taken into consideration.
Here is some sample text:
a) Minimizing the effects on the supply and cost of fibre, as measured by all applicable factors including worldwide competitiveness, quantity, cost of harvesting, and transportation and logistics costs;
b) Minimizing the effects on cost competitiveness, production and employment at individual facilities and the indirect impact on suppliers, contractors, service providers and local governments; and
c) The ability to mitigate the effects on fibre availability and cost through other readily available measures through an exploration of current and new public policy measures.
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(and acknowledge that a similar set of criteria need to be developed in relation to the interests of other stakeholders):
a) Minimizing the effects on the supply and cost of fibre, as measured by all applicable factors including worldwide competitiveness, quantity, cost of harvesting, and transportation and logistics costs;
b) Minimizing the effects on cost-competitiveness, production and employment at individual facilities and the indirect impact on suppliers, contractors, service providers, and local governments; and
c) The ability to mitigate the effects on fibre availability and cost through other readily available measures through an exploration of current and new public policy measures.
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f ) In their work in the marketplace in relation to the development and implementation of procurement policies (this includes both general communications on procurement policies as well as any direct communications or meetings with individual customers regarding the content of procurement policies), ENGOs will:
i) Encourage those developing procurement policies to construct their procurement policy in a manner that does not preclude forest products from the boreal operations of FPAC Members (timing: effective immediately and ongoing thereafter);
ii) When meeting with holders of existing procurement policies in relation to procurement issues, encourage them to modify wording in their procurement policy when policies are acting as a block to procurement of products from the boreal operations of FPAC Members (timing: effective immediately and ongoing thereafter);
iii) Recognize and support forest products from the boreal operations of FPAC Members as ecologically responsible sources of supply (timing:
iv) Where FPAC, an FPAC Member, or ENGO solicits assistance under Goal 6, Section 3, and in a manner consistent with Goal 6, Section 4, FPAC, FPAC Members, and/or ENGOs as appropriate will communicate to specified current and potential customers that progress under the CBFA should be a positive consideration in procurement decisions (timing: effective immediately and ongoing thereafter);
Thank the Makers for these guys!
Fertile Ground Presentation @ The Great Unleashing (1 of 2)
Fertile Ground Presentation @ The Great Unleashing (1 of 2) from Fertile Ground on Vimeo.
Fertile Ground Presentation @ The Great Unleashing (2 of 2)
Fertile Ground Presentation @ The Great Unleashing (2 of 2) from Fertile Ground on Vimeo.