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Food and Farming

Agriculture G8 = more hunger and poverty

Strengthening agriculture and expanding the WTO are contradictory objectives Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)...

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Carbon Pricing

Why Carbon Markets Can't Save the World

In Canada, the British Columbia New Democratic Party is promising to cancel carbon taxes and implement carbon trading, if it wins the provincial election. In the U.S., the Obama administarion is pushing hard for a similar system, as is the Rudd government in Australia. But carbon trading cannot do...

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Climate Change

EPA: Greenhouse Gases Threaten Health

After years of denial by the Bush administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now says:”climate change is an enormous problem” Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens...

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Books & Reports Climate Change

Review: Climate Wars

Gwynne Dyer: Climate Wars. Random House of Canada. Toronto, 2008. ISBN 9780307355836. 272 pages. C$34.95. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to a...

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Food and Farming

Let Them Eat Junk

A new book explores the economics of our food system … Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to...

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Europe

UK gov't advisors call for a new society

“The market was not undone by rogue individuals or the turning of a blind eye by incompetent regulators. It was undone by growth itself.” Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in...

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Organizations

Ecosocialist International Network: What's Next?

The Ecosocialist International Network meeting in Belem was a success – what do we do next? This article by Joel Kovel aims to initiate an international discussion on that question. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)...

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