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Znet Article Brecher: World Leaders Fiddle While the World Burns: Time for a New Climate Strategy

Znet Article, October, 05 2009 Jeremy Brecher
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Obama’s climate czar Carol Browner said last week there will be no U.S. climate protection legislation before the Copenhagen conference and that she doesn’t know if a global agreement on binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions can be made in ...

Znet Article Prashad: Beyond Sun and Dung

Znet Article, October, 05 2009 Vijay Prashad
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Rajendra Pachauri heads TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, based in New Delhi. An engineer of the railways in his early career, Pachauri went to the United States to earn a PhD in industrial engineering and another in economics, after whic...

Znet Article Monbiot: A Millionaire with a Super Yacht Is a Larger Strain on Resources Than Hundreds of Peasant Families

Znet Article, October, 04 2009 George Monbiot
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It's time we had the guts to name the problem. It isn't population; it's consumption. It's not sex; it's money. It's not the poor; it's the rich.

Znet Article Smith: Unions Need to Sever All Ties with Anti-Climate Bill Groups

Znet Article, October, 02 2009 Brendan Smith
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Under escalating pressure from activists, Nike, the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and others have publicly resigned from the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to climate protection policies. It's time for labor unions to f...

Zmag Article Larson: Hug Them While They Last

Zmag Article, October, 01 2009 Robert Larson
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Rising tree mortality, market irrationality, and global warming

Znet Article Shiva: The Injustice of Carbon Offsets

Znet Article, September, 20 2009 Vandana2 Shiva
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Offset Schemes Require the Poorest to be Twice Burdened

Znet Article Reyes: Carbon Trading: a brief introduction

Znet Article, September, 20 2009 Oscar Reyes
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Carbon trading is allowing industrialised countries and companies to avoid their emissions reduction targets. It takes two main forms: “cap and trade” and “carbon offsetting.”

Znet Article Goodman: New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

Znet Article, September, 03 2009 Amy Goodman
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On Sept. 1, the European Union stopped manufacturing and importing incandescent light bulbs. Europeans will now turn to the much more efficient compact fluorescent, halogen and LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs. Incandescents, critics argue, waste ...

Zmag Article Tokar: Toward Climate Justice

Zmag Article, September, 01 2009 Brian Tokar
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Climate politics and prospects in a crucial time frame

Znet Article Many: Climate SOS

Znet Article, August, 27 2009 Authors Many
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Tell Your Senators A Climate Bill That Is "Worse Than Nothing" Is Not Good Enough!

Znet Article D'arcy: Environmentalism as if Winning Mattered

Znet Article, August, 12 2009 Steve D'arcy
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Proposes a strategy for the environmental movement, which actually aims at winning, based on the self-organization of grassroots activism and community-based counter-capitalist alternatives.

Video Roberts: Home (not my video)

Video, August, 02 2009 Melissa Roberts

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate. The stakes are high for us and our children....

Znet Article Lipow: Re: Reducing CO2 Emissions

Znet Article, July, 18 2009 Gar Lipow
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We can reduce emissions by 95% or more in twenty years without shrinking GDP, though it might be desirable to do so. Even if we needed to reduce emisssions by 80% or more in ten years we could do it at a very small cost. We can deploy wind and sol...

Zmag Article Terrall: The Tyranny of Oil

Zmag Article, July, 01 2009 Ben Terrall
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A new book offering a critique of the U.S. oil industry

Zmag Article Vizcardo: Confronting Coal Power

Zmag Article, July, 01 2009 Gonzalo Vizcardo
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Mounting protests against mountain top removal

Znet Article Baker: The Global Warming Lie Detector

Znet Article, June, 30 2009 Dean Baker
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The House's passage of the Waxman-Markey bill raises the possibility that the United States will finally do something on global warming. This prospect has the industry hacks screaming at top volume about the horrible fate that awaits the economy. ...

Znet Article Krugman: Betraying The Planet

Znet Article, June, 29 2009 Paul Krugman
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So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement.

Znet Article Hari: Amazon Uprising More Urgent Than Iran's: The Planet Depends on It

Znet Article, June, 26 2009 Johann Hari
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While the world nervously watches the uprising in Iran, an even more important uprising has been passing unnoticed - yet its outcome will shape your fate, and mine.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Big Business Gearing Up to Defend Protectionism Against UN Climate Negotiators

Znet Article, May, 22 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The battle over "intellectual property rights" is likely to be one of the most important of this century. It has enormous economic, social, and political implications in a wide range of areas, from medicine to the arts and culture - anything where...

Zmag Article Russell: Climate Justice and Coal's Funeral Procession

Zmag Article, May, 01 2009 Joshua kahn Russell
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Report and analysis of the Capitol Power Plant direct action

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