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Monbiot: Picking Up the Gauntlet
Znet Article, August, 12 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Arthur Scargill is a brave man. He was brave to come to the climate camp last week. Though we disagreed with most of what he said, he earned our respect for his willingness to debate. He is brave to return to public life, after suffering one of th...
Rai: Climate Camp
Blog Post, August, 06 2008
Milan Rai
Rai's ZSpace page
This week the third annual Camp for Climate Action is taking place in southern England. 2,000 activists are expected to attend, camping in a field near Kingsnorth coal power station in Kent, 30 miles east of London, to attend workshops, camp in se...
Wilson: Farm Bill & Food crisis Myths: Commodity Title Issues
Blog Post, July, 30 2008
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
There are a number of myths about the impact of U.S. farm policy on foreign farmers and the food crisis.
Monbiot: Kept Afloat on a Tide of Money
Commentary, July, 21 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
All over the world, protesters are engaged in a heroic battle with reality. They block roads, picket fuel depots, throw missiles and turn over cars in an effort to hold it at bay. The oil is running out and governments, they insist, must do someth...
Shiva: Dismantling Democracy, Science and the Public Interest
Commentary, July, 14 2008
Vandana2 Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
Genetically Engineered Organisms (GMOs) are transgenic organisms made by introducing genes across species boundaries. Thus Bt. Cotton, or Bt. Rice or Bt. Brinjal has genes for a toxin taken from a soil bacteria and put into the food crop. In addit...
Szczepanczyk: The Montesi Maneuver: A Way To Think About Corporations, Markets, Participatory Economics, and the Environment
Znet Article, July, 05 2008
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
Corporations -- particularly those transnational corporations with limited liability and rights of personhood -- pose a great threat, perhaps the greatest threat, to the environment and to the future of this planet. Examples are legion: Exxon-Mobi...
Spannos: What is Real Utopia?
Znet Article, July, 04 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
UTOPIAS HAVE A LONG, mixed history in Left movements. Sometimes they have propelled our imagination toward what better worlds might look like. Other times they have trumpeted heaven on earth, a world for angels rather than mortals, a far fetched l...
Monbiot: Green Lifeline
Commentary, July, 04 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
A radical new idea could save the world's ecosystems. But what will it do to the economy?
Spannos: Real Utopia Interview
Znet Article, July, 02 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
The book is a collective effort to spell out vision and strategy for a feasible and desirable transformation of society’s defining institutions. It explores how to get there along with concrete examples and lessons taken from past and present Left...
Street: “Man” Versus “Nature?” The Politics of the Iowa Floods
Znet Article, June, 24 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Having served my hours on the sandbag lines, I am perhaps entitled to say a thing or two about the Iowa and Midwestern floods of 2008 – the ones that displaced 24,000 people from their homes in Cedar Rapids and thousands more in towns like Waterlo...
Abu-jamal: Real Road Rage
Commentary, June, 24 2008
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
As the price of gasoline soars, Americans are forced to think in ways that they haven't in generations: to drive, or not to drive?
Ehrenreich: Liposuction: The Key to Energy Independence
Znet Article, June, 23 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Everyone talks about our terrible dependency on oil -- foreign and otherwise -- but hardly anyone mentions what it is. Fossil fuel, all right, but whose fossils? Mostly tiny plants called diatoms, but quite possibly a few Barney-like creatures wen...
Scipes: The Green Party: An Electoral Force to be Reckoned With?
Znet Article, June, 21 2008
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
Last year, I published a couple of articles on the Greens that appeared on Z Net: “Wo sind de Gruenen?”, asking where are the Greens, and then “The Green Party: Critique, Response and the Illinois Greens October 2007 Membership Meeting”. I want ...
Wise: The Ugly Side of Disaster
Znet Article, June, 21 2008
Tim Wise
Wise's ZSpace page
This week, as Iowans and some in Illinois watched flood waters rise ever higher, Limbaugh took to the air to contrast these supposedly good and decent people who have joined forces to help each other, with the presumably evil, lazy and violent fol...
Fitz: Defending Industry’s Right to Poison
Znet Article, June, 19 2008
Don Fitz
Fitz's ZSpace page
At the same time that new research is confirming the powerful influence childhood lead poisoning has on violent crime and learning ability, industry has argued that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should do away with standards limitin...
Ariel: The False Logic of Green Capitalism in 3 Easy Steps
Blog Post, June, 18 2008
Tal Ariel
Ariel's ZSpace page
The False Logic of Green Capitalism in 3 Easy Steps
Glick: By 2030: Only Renewable Energy!
Commentary, June, 03 2008
Ted Glick
Glick's ZSpace page
As the climate movement increasingly focuses its energies on Capitol Hill, Dr. Navarro's insights about the potential negative impacts of doing so in the wrong way are worthy of serious consideration.
Trigona: Argentina’s Soy Storm
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
Argentina has often been described as the bread basket of the Southern Cone, with plenty of fertile land for grains and cattle. In fact, the economy is based on agro-exports. But with soy production taking over massive tracks of land, producing fo...
Monbiot: The Pleasures of the Flesh: If you care about hunger, eat less meat.
Commentary, April, 23 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
You have probably seen the figures by now: the price of rice has risen by three-quarters in the past year, that of wheat by 130%(1). There are food crises in 37 countries. One hundred million people, according to the World Bank, could be pushed in...
Monbiot: A Cunning Plot: How to grow vegetables without breaking your back
Commentary, April, 19 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Why do people become obsessed with growing vegetables? It's not exactly high-octane. It won't make you rich or boost your social status. But millions who can afford to buy their food devote every free moment to the kind of labour our ancestors wer...
