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Klein: The Search for BP's Oil
Znet Article, January, 19 2011
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
I race to the front of the WeatherBird II, a research vessel owned by the University of South Florida. There they are, doing their sleek silvery thing, weaving between translucent waves, disappearing under the boat, reappearing in perfect formatio...
Shiva: Forests And Freedom
Commentary, January, 05 2011
Vandana Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
The biodiversity of the forest teaches us lessons of democracy, of leaving space for others while drawing sustenance from the common web of life.
Johnson: High-speed rail in Minnesota, Fear Mongering and Perspective
Blog Post, December, 19 2010
Theodore Johnson
Johnson's ZSpace page
The following is a recent "Local View" piece that was published recently on the opinion page of my local paper, the Duluth News Tribune. I include my response, which has also been submitted to the paper but has yet to be published.
Bond: ‘Climate Capitalism’ Won At Cancun - Everyone Else Loses
Commentary, December, 14 2010
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The December 11 closure of the global climate summit in Cancun has been portrayed a "step forward."
Carlsen: Peasant, Indigenous Organizations Reject Market Schemes for Global Warming
Znet Article, December, 11 2010
Laura Carlsen
Carlsen's ZSpace page
The UN Climate Conference (COP16) in Cancun is turning out to be both anti-climactic and anti-climatic.
Bond: A Climate Conference, Old And New Oil Curses, And Norwegian ‘Good Samaritans’
Znet Article, November, 23 2010
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The stench of rotting blubber would hang for days over The Bluff in South Durban, thanks to Norwegian immigrants whose harpooning skills helped stock the town with cooking fat, margarine and soap, starting about a century ago.
Shiva: Lessons of Fighting Hegemonies in Food and Seed for 30 Years
Video, November, 09 2010
Vandana Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
Vandana Shiva's presentation at the International Meeting on Resisting Hegemony.
Shiva: Time To End War Against The Earth
Znet Article, November, 04 2010
Vandana Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
When we think of wars in our times, our minds turn to Iraq and Afghanistan. But the bigger war is the war against the planet.
Russell: Open Letter to 1 Sky from the Grassroots
Blog Post, October, 23 2010
Joshua Kahn Russell
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Open Letter to 1 Sky from the Grassroots
Monbiot: The Short, Happy Life of Climate Change Enlightenment
Commentary, September, 28 2010
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
The collapse of the talks at Copenhagen took away all momentum for change and the lobbyists are back in control. So what next?
Qureshi: Pakistan Relief Efforts
Znet Article, September, 19 2010
Yasmin Qureshi
Qureshi's ZSpace page
More than 20 million people are impacted by the floods in Pakistan and more than 1.2 million homes destroyed.
Patel: The Big Gulf Bailout
Znet Article, August, 12 2010
Raj Patel
Patel's ZSpace page
What are the real costs of the Gulf Oil spill? BP's 32 billion estimate doesn't come anywhere close.
biomess: Air pollution causing early deaths of 50,000 a year
Blog Post, August, 01 2010
uk biomess
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Air pollution is causing the early deaths of up to 50,000 people a year and making thousands more ill - but the Government is failing to take enough action to tackle the problem, MPs said today. (United Kingdom)
Shiva: The Killing Fields Of Multi-National Corporations
Commentary, July, 20 2010
Vandana Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
The Bhopal gas tragedy was the worst industrial disaster in human history. Twenty-five thousand people died, 500,000 were injured, and the injustice done to the victims of Bhopal over the past 25 years will go down as the worst case of jurispruden...
Raina: Food Or Nutrition?
Znet Article, July, 07 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
As the Indian government contemplates a Right-to-Food Act, whereby some rice and/or wheat might be given to those below the “poverty line” (which, in diverse computations by the “experts” ranges from some 27% of Indians to some 77%) at nominal r...
Prashad: BP, Obama and the Gulf
Znet Article, July, 06 2010
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
The oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico. It began to flow out of a hole that resulted from an explosion on April 20 on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform. Once an oil seam has been tapped, it is hard to stop the flow, so the oil flo...
Klein: Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world
Znet Article, June, 21 2010
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of ca...
Hahnel: The Ecological Crisis And Libertarian Socialists
Commentary, June, 16 2010
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
There is a growing divide among Leftists over how to respond to the threat of climate change. On the one hand many progressive environmentalists are fighting to keep the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in control of ...
Friel: Serial Mistake-Makers on Climate Change (2)
Znet Article, June, 14 2010
Howard Friel
Friel's ZSpace page
Presumably, a respected author such as Matt Ridley would have thought to read my book, prior to criticizing it and me, and therefore would have been familiar with such details as I wrote about them in The Lomborg Deception ...
Friel: Serial Mistake-Makers on Climate Change (Part I): On Matt Ridley and Bjorn Lomborg
Znet Article, June, 10 2010
Howard Friel
Friel's ZSpace page
What shall we call them—those “skeptical environmentalists” and “rational optimists” about global warming—superheroes of best-selling books who write and speak in open opposition to facts and science as easily as Superman and Spiderman defy gravit...
