Pentagon Bracing For Public Dissent Over Climate And Energy Shocks

Via Earth Insight by Nafeez Ahmed hosted by The Guardian:

The Pentagon knows that environmental, economic and other crises could provoke widespread public anger toward government and corporations in coming years. The revelations on the NSA's global surveillance programmes are just the latest indication that as business as usual creates instability at home and abroad, and as disillusionment with the status quo escalates, Western publics are being increasingly viewed as potential enemies that must be policed by the state.   [Keep Reading]

Database Tracks Energy Legislation

Via Treehugger:

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/new-online-database-allows-users-track-pending-advanced-energy-legislation-across-us.html

Van Jones Defies Obama On Keystone XL

Via NationOfChange:

Genetically Engineering an Icon: Can Biotech Bring the Chestnut Back to America's Forests?

Via TheAtlantic:

In the 20th century, a blight killed of four billion of these towering trees. Now, new research shows that a gene, taken from wheat, provides resistance.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/genetically-engineering-an-icon-can-biotech-bring-the-chestnut-back-to-americas-forests/276356/