Friends of the Earth explain why offsetting is a dangerous distraction from the urgent business of decarbonizing the world’s economies. CDM and related offset plans can’t be reformed: they must be scrapped. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit...
Today is the 190th anniversary of the day when English cavalry attacked a peaceful crowd of 60,000 in Manchester, gathered to call for democratic rights. The event is remembered as the Peterloo, a word that combines the location of the attack, St. Peters Field, with an ironic reference to the...
Some environmentalists view the rejection of the Australian Labor government’s emissions trading plan as a defeat for green politics. Socialists disagree. 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...
Another case of the inevitable fate that follows when Green parties adopt the creed of “neither Left nor Right, but Green” 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...
Despite protests by indigenous people, the head of government energy agency says that this fall they will auction still more blocks traditional indigenous lands to oil and gas companies Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to...
John Bellamy Foster's new book is a call for urgent action and an intervention into the debates about the kind of action needed to win this "race" for the future.
This month the English Green Left will meet in Manchester. The meeting is timed to coincide with the 190th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, one of the most significant events in British radical history. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in...
Robb Johnson kindly allowed me to include the lyrics of his song ‘Red and Green’ in my new book, The Global Fight for Climate Justice. Here is Roy Bailey’s recording of this beautiful piece. (from his CD Coda, which can be purchased here) Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in...
We somehow missed this article when it was published over two years ago, but what it says remains absolutely true: the existing system is unsustainable by its very nature. It can’t be fixed. +++++++++++++ by Robert Newman The Guardian, February 2, 2006 There is no meaningful response to...
Book Review: Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health. by Hans Baer & Merrill Singer. Left Coast Press, 2009. 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...
