[Quotes and Insights #3] The January 2008 issue of Monthly Review includes a short memoir by Richard Levins, co-author with Richard Lewontin of the wonderful book The Dialectical Biologist. In the MR piece, Levins discusses the long arc of his career as a scientist who was also a dedicated activist and Marxist. On the cover, […]
Archive | January, 2008
Eco-socialist Network Formed in Adelaide, Australia
By Leslie Richmond From Green Left Weekly, 26 January 2008 In October 2007, with the federal election looming, and global warming generating a lot of tepid air in parliaments around the country, a diverse group of people in Adelaide established the Eco-socialist Network to attempt to generate more serious discussion of environmental issues. (more…)
How to Avoid Action on Climate Change
The following is the text of Ian Angus’s keynote speech at “Smells Like Green Spirit,” a conference sponsored by the University of British Columbia Student Environment Centre, on January 19, 2008. (more…)
Tar Sands Crimes
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Climate Change – Social Change Conference, Australia, April 11-13
Climate change – Social change conference (more…)
Options for Ecosocialists in 2008
(The general line of document below was endorsed by a meeting of the Green Left (a group within the Green Party of England and Wales) at their meeting this month. (more…)
“More Forest, Less Bank!” Protecting the World’s Forests Will Take More than Money
Media reports on last month’s Bali conference focused almost exclusively on what happened inside the conference hall and in negotiating sessions. But while politicians and bureaucrats haggled over the details of their toothless “Action Plan,” something quite different was happening outside. (more…)
New Publication: Confronting the Climate Change Crisis
Available now: A new anthology of 10 frequently downloaded articles by Ian Angus, editor of Climate and Capitalism. (more…)
From False to Real Solutions for Climate Change
by Patrick Bond (more…)
Ethanol and the Gulf Dead Zone: More Echoes of Engels
I previously quoted Friedrich Engels in regard to the impact of the U.S. ethanol boom on Brazilian rainforests. Here’s the quote again: (more…)
2007 Was Britain's 'Second Warmest Year'
Share this with any global-warming-deniers you may be acquainted with — also with anyone who has a few doubts, or just isn’t certain, and everyone else as well. (more…)
Time to Stop the Greenwashing
by Glen Barry from Earth Meanders, January 4, 2008 It’s a very positive sign for the green left that some mainstream green activists are publishing statements as strong as this one. Dr. Glen Barry is the President and Founder of Ecological Internet (EI). He is a conservation biologist and political ecologist, a writer of essays […]
A Conversation About Green Socialism
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Svend Robinson: Canada's Role in Bali Was Painful to See
Svend Robinson, Canada’s first openly gay elected official and a leading activist for gay rights, was a New Democratic Party member of Canada’s federal parliament from 1979 to 2004. He is now working with Public Services International, based in France. He can be contacted by email at svend.robinson@world-psi.org. (more…)