Why did the Greens gain? Was this a shift to the left? What should left-greens and green-lefts do now? How can the fight for radical social change be moved forward? Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens...
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Outrage at Shell-funded UN Report on Nigeria oil spills
UNEP study using information from the oil companies responsible for the massive oil pollution in Nigeria Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new...
Greens Gain in Australian Election
Progressive social movements will be looking to the Greens to offer strong support in the struggles ahead, no matter which major party eventually forms government Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in...
This is agribusiness: exploiting workers and poisoning consumers
If the theory of ‘consumer sovereignty’ is correct, then U.S. consumers must want salmonella in their omelets, and the DeCoster agribusiness operation, a habitual violator of safety, environment and other laws, is just responding to market demand. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens...
Russia's fires and Pakistan's floods: A taste of what's to come
The disasters of the past few weeks sound a warning: this is the way of the 21st century, if decisive action isn’t taken soon Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a...
Climate Change: Who's Carrying the Burden?
New book from CCPA “rallies the call of climate justice advocates and activists concerned with system change not climate change” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to...
Latin America Faces the Global Ecological Crisis
Because of Latin America’s natural wealth, the region is a great supplier of commodities, food and energy to industrialized economies; and, at the same time, the wealthier countries try to transfer the environmental costs of the dirtiest industries to it Share:Click to share on Facebook...
Daniel Dorling: Are the super-rich human?
[Quotes and Insights #11] “Places rarely suffer from having too many people, but frequently suffer from a few people taking far too much. By early 2008 it became evident that preceding the economic crash, the acquisition of most of the world’s remaining available land was occurring at rates never...
Bill McKibben's Eaarth
Earth has died … but Eaarth offers few solutions Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Pocket (Opens in new...
Sonia Shah: Oiling the war machine
[Quotes and Insights #10] “The U.S. military consumes about 85 million barrels of oil a year, making it the biggest single consumer of fuel in the country and perhaps the world. Accordng to an interdisciplinary panel convened by the Defense Science Board (DSB ), cheap oil has distorted the American...