Global warming, General Motors’ vice-chairperson of global product development Robert A. Lutz told reporters in a closed-door meeting in January, is “a total crock of shit” (more…)
Archive | March, 2008
The True Cost of Biofuels
A major study published by The Nature Conservancy and University of Minnesota concludes that land clearing releases 17 to 420 times as much carbon dioxide as is replaced by using the biofuel produced from that cleared land. (more…)
Indian Social Scientists Call for Equal Rights to the Global Commons
A call for climate justice, adopted by the congress of the Indian Academy of the Social Sciences (more…)
Environmental Activists Win Two Victories in British Columbia
Protests stop a private hydro-electric megaproject and win a moratorium on salmon farming (more…)
The Qollasuyo Declaration: Indigenous Peoples Demand Full Participation in Climate Talks and Decisions
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79% of Canadians Want an Immediate Hard Cap on Emissions
Conservative and Liberal governments are out of touch with the majority (more…)
Carbon Trading: An Ecosocialist Critique
Despite its popularity among advocates of market solutions to global warming, carbon trading cannot produce the quantitative and qualitative changes that the world needs (more…)
Kitchenuhmaykoosib People Continue the Fight for Their Land
In response to the imprisonment of indigenous leaders who protested illegal mining, the KI Council bans federal and provincial politicians, and all mining companies, from their Homelands (more…)
Global Warming and the Iraq War
In 2006. the US spent more on the war in Iraq than the whole world spent on investment in renewable energy. (more…)
Ontario Jails Aboriginal Leaders for Peacefully Opposing Mining on Native Land
Support wrongly imprisoned aboriginal leaders. Oppose industrial mining in Ontario. (more…)
Carbon Trading Comes to Canada
New excitement from the wonderful folks who gave us the subprime mortgage disaster … (more…)
Corporate vs. Popular Solutions to the Climate Crisis
A presentation by Anne Petermann, Co-Director of the Global Justice Ecology Project at the Left Forum, New York City, March 15 (more…)
Carbon Trading, Illustrated
Here’s how it really works …
The Photosynthetic Ceiling: Don't Duck Your Head Just Yet
Is humanity is about to bump its collective head against a physical limit to growth? Will we soon be using all of the available resources? (more…)
Video: Patrick Bond on the Global Fight for Climate Justice
Video of Patrick Bond’s talk in Toronto on March 4 (more…)
Carbon Storage: A Silver Bullet for Emissions?
Canada’s federal government says Carbon Capture and Storage is the key to cutting greenhouse gases (more…)
Minority and Indigenous Peoples Hardest Hit by Climate Change
A new report shows that minorities and indigenous groups are disproportionately suffering — both from climate change itself and from “solutions” like biofuels (more…)
Video: Urban Farming in Cuba
The BBC program “Around the World in 80 Gardens” (2008) shows some of the urban food gardening in Havana, Cuba. A tip of the hat to Dave Riley, host of Left Click, for bringing this video to our attention. Related reading: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Tar Sands: Environmental Justice, Treaty Rights and Indigenous Peoples
“The exploitation of the tar sands is a human-rights issue, an environmental-justice issue and an indigenous treaty-rights issue” (more…)
Stabilizing Climate Requires Near-Zero Emissions
New scientific research shows that greenhouse gas emissions cuts must be much steeper than previously thought (more…)