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Another Record Year for Renewables Issue #130 September 2017 chain RRP $5.50 reacti n The National Magazine of Friends of the Earth Australia www.foe.org.au ANOTHER RECORD YEAR FOR RENEWABLES Stop the Intervention Permaculture and activism The campaign against the environment movement Nanoparticles in infant formula products Pesticides and drinking water Growing movement against nuclear weapons Environmental defenders killed in record numbers NT fracking pipeline construction looms Controversial Bougainville mine hits roadblock Edition #130 − September 2017 Publisher - Friends of the Earth, Australia REGULAR ITEMS Chain Reaction ABN 81600610421 FoE Australia ABN 18110769501 Join Friends of the Earth 4 www.foe.org.au FoE Australia News 5 youtube.com/user/FriendsOfTheEarthAUS FoE Australia Contacts inside back cover CONTENTS twitter.com/FoEAustralia facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-the-Earth- Australia/16744315982 STOP THE INTERVENTION flickr.com/photos/foeaustralia Ten Years Too Long – Stop the Intervention 10 Chain Reaction website www.foe.org.au/chain-reaction PERMACULTURE Permaculture and Activism – David Holmgren 12 Chain Reaction contact details The Art of Frugal Hedonism 15 PO Box 222,Fitzroy, Victoria, 3065. – Kirsten Bradley email: [email protected] phone: (03) 9419 8700 FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ARTICLES Chain Reaction team The long campaign against the environment movement – Cam Walker 17 Jim Green, Tessa Sellar Making history: El Salvador becomes first country to ban 19 metal mining Layout & Design – Sam Cossar-Gilbert and Riccardo Navarro Tessa Sellar Put that bottle down now! 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