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- Monday, Mar 15, 2010
Commentary Since 1966 - and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water-intensive, chemical farming - India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating a water famine. -
- Friday, Mar 12, 2010
ZNet Article Given his public diplomacy skills, if Bjorn Lomborg had worked for the Bush-Cheney White House, the world might still be thinking that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. This is because there has never been any evidence to supp... -
- Sunday, Mar 07, 2010
Video The current crisis has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism and hugely increased inequality, with money going from labor to capital. -
- Thursday, Mar 04, 2010
Commentary I have discovered, over the course of my years as an organizer for positive social change, that it is important that members of an organization or movement learn to distinguish between principles, program, strategy and tactics. An inability to do ... -
- Monday, Mar 01, 2010
ZNet Article Today I have been asked to speak on the subject of Gandhian Social Values and Society Today. -
- Sunday, Feb 28, 2010
Commentary Since November last year, the public has been bombarded with the story of stolen emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealing a supposed "scandal" of scientific malpractice, stupidly and lazily named "climateg... -
- Thursday, Feb 25, 2010
ZNet Article Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Markham demonstrates this in a new documentary, “Gasland,” which just won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize. Director Josh Fox films Markham as he runs his ... Commentary A carbon tax is preferable to cap and trade unless there are compelling practical reasons a tax won't work as well. -
- Friday, Feb 19, 2010
ZNet Article Andre Vltchek from Palembang, Musi River and Bangka Island. Introduction by Geoffrey Gunn Commentary Global temperatures varied because of changes in ocean heating and cooling cycles. `When we average temperature over 5 or 10 years to minimize that variability,' said Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one... -
- Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010
ZNet Article I did not mention Patrick Bond, or anyone else for that matter by name, in my three part series on the Left and Climate Change posted on ZNet on December 24, 25, and 26. Nor did I speculate about the motives or political character flaws of any aut... -
- Monday, Jan 25, 2010
Commentary Two decades ago, the garbage barge, the Khian Sea, with no place in the U.S. willing to accept its garbage, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 t... -
- Sunday, Jan 24, 2010
Commentary Just about one year ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President. Hopes were high among progressive-minded people, including climate activists. Finally, we had a President who got it on the need for action to address the deepening climate crisis. -
- Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010
ZNet Article Patrick Bond replies to Robin Hahnel's ZNet article "Has The Left Missed The Boat On Climate Change?" -
- Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010
Commentary Because misconceptions are commonplace a basic tutorial on the logic and implications of regulation, carbon taxes, and tradable carbon emission permits is useful. Hopefully this will correct some common misunderstandings about what different polic... -
- Saturday, Jan 09, 2010
Commentary Originally published in Yale Environment 360, Sonia Shah writes that in the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level e... -
- Friday, Jan 08, 2010
Commentary While world leaders play the blame game and politicians dither, deadly carbon emissions grow without restraint. The official US government "business as usual" projection is for a 39 percent increase in carbon emissions worldwide by 2030, roughly ... -
- Thursday, Jan 07, 2010
ZNet Article There have been several recent oil spills and other environmental problems linked to the oil/gas production industry in Alaska. On December 23, a tugboat hit the Bligh Reef, the same reef struck by the Exxon Valdez 20 years ago. The recent groundi... -
- Friday, Jan 01, 2010
ZMag Article An interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge on localization -
- Monday, Dec 28, 2009
ZNet Article Climate change is already causing enormous damage and hundreds of millions of poor people are enduring the consequences. -
- Saturday, Dec 26, 2009
ZNet Article As a US military veteran—USMC, 1969-73, who turned around while on active duty—I have been incredibly frustrated at the impotence of the anti-war movement in the United States to stop the wars in particularly Iraq, Afghanistan and, increasingl... Commentary This is the third and final part of a three part ZNet commentary series by political economist Robin Hahnel posted between Dec. 24-26, 2009. -
- Friday, Dec 25, 2009
Commentary This is part 2 of a three part ZNet commentary series by political economist Robin Hahnel, to be posted Dec. 24-26, 2009. Part 1 was posted yesterday. Part 3 will be available tomorrow. ZNet Article Make no mistake about it, formal negotiations in Copenhagen ended in a train wreck that no spin doctor can put a good face on and was a huge setback for the prospects of averting climate change in an equitable way. -
- Thursday, Dec 24, 2009
Commentary Part 1 of a three part series exploring the Left and climate change to be run on ZNet Dec. 24-26, 2009 -
- Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009
Commentary In Copenhagen, the world's richest leaders continued their fiery fossil fuel party last Friday night, ignoring requests of global village neighbors to please chill out. ZNet Article Detailed accounts from participants in the recent Copenhagen climate summit are still coming in, but a few things are already quite clear, even as countries step up the blame game in response to the summit’s disappointing conclusion. ZNet Article Barack Obama said, minutes before racing out of the U.N. climate summit, “We will not be legally bound by anything that took place here today.†These were among his remarks made to his own small White House press corps, excluding the 3,500 cre... ZNet Article Democracy Now! interview with Evo Morales -- "We cannot end global warming without ending capitalism" -
- Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009
ZNet Article The last time global negotiations collapsed like this was in Doha, in 2001. After the trade talks fell apart, the World Trade Organization assured delegates that there was nothing to fear: they would move to Mexico, where a deal would be done. The... - All Newest Ecology
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- Monday, Mar 15, 2010
Commentary Since 1966 - and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water-intensive, chemical farming - India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating a water famine. -
- Friday, Mar 12, 2010
ZNet Article Given his public diplomacy skills, if Bjorn Lomborg had worked for the Bush-Cheney White House, the world might still be thinking that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. This is because there has never been any evidence to supp... -
- Sunday, Mar 07, 2010
Video The current crisis has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism and hugely increased inequality, with money going from labor to capital. -
- Thursday, Mar 04, 2010
Commentary I have discovered, over the course of my years as an organizer for positive social change, that it is important that members of an organization or movement learn to distinguish between principles, program, strategy and tactics. An inability to do ... -
- Thursday, Feb 25, 2010
ZNet Article Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Markham demonstrates this in a new documentary, “Gasland,” which just won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize. Director Josh Fox films Markham as he runs his ... Commentary A carbon tax is preferable to cap and trade unless there are compelling practical reasons a tax won't work as well. -
- Friday, Feb 19, 2010
Commentary Global temperatures varied because of changes in ocean heating and cooling cycles. `When we average temperature over 5 or 10 years to minimize that variability,' said Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one... -
- Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010
ZNet Article I did not mention Patrick Bond, or anyone else for that matter by name, in my three part series on the Left and Climate Change posted on ZNet on December 24, 25, and 26. Nor did I speculate about the motives or political character flaws of any aut... -
- Monday, Jan 25, 2010
Commentary Two decades ago, the garbage barge, the Khian Sea, with no place in the U.S. willing to accept its garbage, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 t... -
- Sunday, Jan 24, 2010
Commentary Just about one year ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President. Hopes were high among progressive-minded people, including climate activists. Finally, we had a President who got it on the need for action to address the deepening climate crisis. - All Featured ZNet Ecology
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- Monday, Feb 01, 2010
ZMag Article A report from December's historic UN climate talks (COP15) ZMag Article Alternative vision articles on the economy, ecology, education, and mental health -
- Friday, Dec 04, 2009
ZMag Article A faux disarmament plan and the pro-nuclear lobby -
- Tuesday, Sep 01, 2009
ZMag Article Climate politics and prospects in a crucial time frame -
- Wednesday, Apr 01, 2009
ZMag Article The limits of industrial energy and the potential of alternatives -
- Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008
ZMag Article Andrej Grubacic interviews Raj Patel on the global food system. -
- Tuesday, Jul 01, 2008
ZMag Article The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) emerged, along with its cousin the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), out of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Its mission is ostensibly to recommend solutions to the escalating biodiversi... - All Featured ZMag Ecology
Ecology CommentsForum Post Hi Michael, This is a test. Forum Post In describing the EcoNvergence conferences, you say, "what most struck me was how weak, disorganized, and non-strategic we often were, and how difficult it proved to be for us to move beyond preaching to the choir."... Forum Post I hope this article gets wide circulation. It is an important commentary that has relevance beyond Vancouver. Diversity of tactics while a good principle in general should not be an absolute principle. Although, how to decide and enfor... Forum Post Yes, Andreas, I do acknowledge that. Perhaps I misunderstood - I hope so. Forum Post Hi Carl,Thanks for the kind words and serious attention... > 1. Make explicit the abstract ethical perspective that unifies the various points of the proposal I agree in general, but remember, first, this is just a poll and there i... - All Ecology Comments
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- Monday, Mar 01, 2010
Blog Post Wood fueled biomass energy worse for carbon dioxide emissions than fossil fuels by Chris Matera (Massachusetts Forest Watch)
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- Monday, Feb 22, 2010
Blog Post Some Green Groups oppose the plans for Leith biomass plant (Scotland). -
- Monday, Dec 28, 2009
Blog Post As millions come to grips with the claimed agreements emerging from the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, it's impossible to resist the suspicion that politics can provide no solution to the serious environmental and ecological problems fac... -
- Friday, Oct 02, 2009
Blog Post think climate finance is boring? think again. -
- Monday, Sep 28, 2009
Blog Post report from the first day of the Bangkok UNFCCC climate negotiations. -
- Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009
Blog Post Nature degraded to create economic mastery over a world of slaves. Psychotic. -
- Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Blog Post Here are some estimates for total allowable fossil fuel and a call for a global moratorium on all new fossil fuel prospecting. - All Ecology Blogs
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- Sunday, Mar 07, 2010
Video The current crisis has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism and hugely increased inequality, with money going from labor to capital. -
- Saturday, Jan 17, 2009
Video George Monbiot challenges Jeroen van de Veer, chief executive of oil and gas giant Shell, on ethics, greenwash advertising, renewable energy investments and gas-flaring in Nigeria.
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- Friday, Jan 18, 2008
Video An interview at the United Nations climate change conference in Bali, December 2007. -
- Tuesday, Jan 15, 2008
Video The Scam Called Carbon Trading... - All Ecology Video
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- Thursday, Jun 25, 2009
Audio New research released by Argentina's top medical school has found that a chemical used in soy farming could be harmful to human health. The study has alarmed policy makers in the South American nation which is one of the world's largest producers... -
- Saturday, Apr 05, 2008
Audio A talk about the science of climate change and its political implications. - All Ecology Audio
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