by Jonathan Neale From Socialist Worker (UK) October 20 2007 Tackling climate change means cutting carbon emissions drastically. We have to start now – that’s clear. But there’s confusion over what to do about air travel. Half of global carbon emissions come from seven sources – heating buildings...
(Abridged from UNEP’s October 25 News Release) The United Nations Environment Programme says that major threats to the planet such as climate change, the rate of extinction of species, and the challenge of feeding a growing population are among the many that remain unresolved, and all of them put...
From Intercontinental Cry, October 25 2007 The Dominion has recently published its special issue on the Alberta tar sands; and has since last Monday, been publishing roughly one article a day about this massive, barely understood human rights and environmental disaster. Four of the articles...
It’s brand new, so there’s not much in it yet, but the Ecosocialist Network now has a website: is also a yahoogroup for discussion among friends and supporters of EIN. To join, send a blank email to EI-Network-subscribe@yahoogroups.com, and follow the instructions in the email response...
by Clayton Thomas-Muller Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan) in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an activist for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice. He has worked across Canada, Alaska and the lower 48 states with grassroots Indigenous communities to defend...
By Patricia Grogg From Inter Press Service SANTA CLARA, Cuba, Oct 23 (IPS) – Efforts to restore degraded island ecosystems are already producing results in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara, where scientists from different disciplines have been fomenting environmentally-friendly...
UK blogger Jeremy William, who works for the Christian charity Lifewords, commented on the Ecosocialist International Network in the ecology blog Celsias last week. He’s sympathetic and interested, but more than a little sceptical… Last week saw the birth of a new movement. You may have...
A leaflet distributed at the University of Toronto by Students Against Climate Change GLOBAL WARMING SUCKS! We are living on this planet as though we have another one to go to Peer-reviewed science confirms the effects of man-made climate change: Catastrophic loss of both human and non-human life...
by Phil Ward From Socialist Resistance, October 2007 October 10 sees the end of a public “consultation” to “help the government take a decision on the future of nuclear power in the UK”. The exercise is completely cynical. In February the government was found in court to have prejudged the issue...
Declaration of the World Encounter “For the Historic Victory of the Indigenous Peoples of the World” Translated from America Latina en Movimiento for Bolivia Rising by Richard Fidler. Footnotes added by the translator. A Formal Summons to World States by Indigenous First Nations and Peoples...
