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Bond: From climate denialism to activist alliances in memory of Seattle
Commentary, November, 30 2009
Patrick Bond
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Preparations for the December 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit are going as expected, including a rare sighting of African elites' stiffened spines. That's a great development (maybe decisive), more about which below.
Kovel: End Times In Copenhagen
Znet Article, November, 19 2009
Joel Kovel
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It’s hard to overstate the importance of the upcoming December meetings at Copenhagen, Denmark, set up by the UN for the purpose of renegotiating the climate protocols set forth in Kyoto, in 1997 and due to expire in 2012. These latter were gree...
Monbiot: We Cannot Fight Climate With Consumerism
Commentary, November, 09 2009
George Monbiot
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The 'licensing effect': Researchers have found that buying green can establish the moral credentials that license subsequent bad behaviour.
Jensen: Wars and Crises
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Robert Jensen
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The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for the KVRX radio show “The Pursuit of Injustice.â€
Bond: When the climate change center cannot hold
Commentary, October, 25 2009
Patrick Bond
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On a day that 350.org and thousands of allies are valiantly trying to raise global consciousness about impending catastrophe, we can ask some tough questions about what to do after people depart and the props are packed up. No matter today’s act...
Sharma: The Dr Borlaug I Knew
Commentary, October, 19 2009
Devinder Sharma
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The late agronomist Norman Borlaug, regarded as the father of the "Green Revolution", is credited with saving millions from starvation. Despite the criticisms of environmentalists, Borlaug had a strong appreciation for the centrality of farmers' l...
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.
Russell: Reparations for Climate Chaos
Blog Post, October, 02 2009
Joshua Kahn Russell
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think climate finance is boring? think again.
Russell: Bangkok: day one of the UN Climate Negotiations
Blog Post, September, 28 2009
Joshua kahn Russell
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report from the first day of the Bangkok UNFCCC climate negotiations.
Glick: Copenhagen: Turning Point or More of the Same Old Same Old?
Commentary, September, 23 2009
Ted Glick
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This coming week, in New York City and Pittsburgh, there will be important United Nations and G20 meetings that could advance the process of coming up with a new international treaty to address the climate crisis. This coming week will also see th...
Black: Common environments, Diggers, and climate campers
Blog Post, September, 21 2009
Toban Black
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Thoughts on the relationship between food issues, rural movements, and Climate Camps. I mainly compare the distinct focuses and limitations of the Diggers' movement toward agricultural autonomy, and the Climate Campers' rallies and interventions a...
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
Black: Decades of peace feminism and feminist ecology in and around the UK
Blog Post, September, 17 2009
Toban Black
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Movement activity and critical analysis around a monument that is dedicated to women in a campaign against nuclear cruise missiles at a military base in the UK (at the Greenham Common, in Berkshire).
Shiva: A plate full of toxins
Commentary, September, 14 2009
Vandana2 Shiva
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In times when food is genetically manipulated and chemically contaminated, the metaphor "food for thought" can also stand for manipulated information and be toxic food for thought. Unfortunately, Dr M.S. Swaminathan’s GM: Food for Thought (Augus...
Brecher: AFL-CIO Convention: Solidarity with Van Jones?
Commentary, September, 13 2009
Jeremy Brecher
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The attack that drove “green jobs czar†Van Jones from the White House this week is an attack on labor and on workers’ best hope for good jobs. If labor wants to promote green jobs, labor should embrace Van Jones - publicly, loudly, and fas...
Wise: The Afrikaner Party Draws First Blood: Van Jones, Barack Obama And The Audacity Of Capitulation
Znet Article, September, 09 2009
Tim Wise
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Van Jones, special advisor to the President's Council on Environmental Quality, has resigned from the administration. To be honest, he was forced out. Oh, perhaps not directly, but if not, then by the stunning silence of his employer. An employer ...
Patel: Ending Africa's Hunger
Znet Article, September, 08 2009
Raj Patel
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More than a billion people eat fewer than 1,900 calories per day. The majority of them work in agriculture, about 60 percent are women or girls, and most are in rural Africa and Asia. Ending their hunger is one of the few unimpeachably noble tasks...
Trigona: The Soy Republic of Argentina
Znet Article, September, 08 2009
Marie Trigona
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The increasing export of genetically modified crops is part of a regional trend with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay now adopting a soy-based economic model. Argentina has made a radical shift toward soy, which has displaced cultivation of...
Glick: Can We Make It?
Commentary, September, 01 2009
Ted Glick
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More than once over the last several years I have talked with people who understand the deep hole humankind has dug for itself because of our reliance on fossil fuels and the dominant system’s environmentally destructive model of “development....
Landau: Moby Dick And Asian Typhoons
Commentary, August, 31 2009
Saul Landau
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During early and mid August typhoon Morakot killed unknown numbers of Chinese, Taiwanese and Filipinos, dislocating millions, provoking landslides and hampering rescue efforts. The rising waters destroyed homes, public buildings and bridges; burie...
