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Brecher: Labor Confronts Global Warming
Znet Article, April, 14 2007
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
The reality of global warming and its catastrophic consequences are today beyond debate. But American labor is caught in an intern...
Castro: Foodstuff as Imperial Weapon
Znet Article, March, 31 2007
Fidel Castro
Castro's ZSpace page
More than three billion people in the world are being condemend to a premature death from hunger...
Cohen: Notes on the Ecological Dimension
Znet Article, August, 31 2006
Mitchel Cohen
Cohen's ZSpace page
(A talk by Mitchel Cohen at the "Another World is Necessary" conference on July 24, 2006 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, sponsored by the Center for Global Justice.) There is a kind of environmentalist who argues that police clubs must be made...
Cromwell: The Curiosities of Utopian Thinking
Znet Article, March, 28 2006
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
Sean O'Grady wrote recently in the ad-filled motoring supplement of The Independent: "in answer to the many letters we get criticising some of our coverage, we don't make cars. We just write about them. [...] We try to concentrate on telling our r...
Hepburn: Creating An Ecological, Worker Run Co-operative
Znet Article, February, 16 2006
John Hepburn
Hepburn's ZSpace page
Since 1998, Reverse Garbage Co-op has been diverting re-useable materials away from landfills and making them available at low cost to the local community. It has an annual turnover of around $300,000 per annum, employs 5-6 people, and is financia...
Cromwell: Point of No Return?
Znet Article, January, 18 2006
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
Billions Will Die The Independent and the Independent on Sunday (IoS) pride themselves on their environmental coverage. No doubt their editors will indicate today's dramatic front page as a case in point. The paper depicts the Earth from space ov...
Edwards: The Insane Society
Znet Article, December, 14 2005
David Edwards
Edwards's ZSpace page
In his classic book, The Sane Society, published in 1955, psychologist Erich Fromm proposed that, not just individuals, but entire societies "may be lacking in sanity". Fromm argued that one of the most deceptive features of social life involves "...
Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...
Monbiot: Struggle Against Ourselves
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
I want to take a moment to remind you of where we have come from. For the first three million years of human history, we lived according to circumstance. Our lives were ruled by the happenstances of ecology. We existed, as all animals do, in ...
Hepburn: World Food Day
Znet Article, October, 18 2005
John Hepburn
Hepburn's ZSpace page
World Food Day, which was celebrated on Saturday, is a time of year to reflect on where our food comes from, on the abundance of food for some, and the lack of access for so many others. It is a time to reflect on the history of food, and the futu...
Davis: The Coming Avian Flu Pandemic
Znet Article, August, 17 2005
Mike Davis
Davis's ZSpace page
The Coming Avian Flu Pandemic
Palast: Ecuadors' Debt
Znet Article, May, 16 2005
Greg Palast
Palast's ZSpace page
George Bush has someone new to hate. Only twenty-four hours after Ecuador's new president took his oath of office, he was hit by a diplomatic cruise missile fired all the way from Lithuania by Condoleezza Rice, then wandering about Eastern Europe ...
Lilley: Paving the Amazon with Soy
Znet Article, December, 22 2004
Sasha Lilley
Lilley's ZSpace page
The sprawling state of Mato Grosso, in central west Brazil, could be thought a paradise of sorts, at least from a distance. The lush rainforest of the Amazon basin, often called the "lungs of the world," straddles the state, as does the grassy Bra...
