From Socialist Worker (U.S.), November 2, 2007 Despite their nonstop coverage, nearly all of the media accounts of the wildfires in Southern California missed the deeper causes of the catastrophe–years of destructive land development driven by...
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'Greenwash Guerrillas' Invade New York City Carbon Trading Expo
New York City – Protesters with Rising Tide North America’s “Greenwash Guerrillas” paid a surprise Halloween visit to the Carbon Market Insights conference in New York City today. Posing as delegates, two protesters took the stage at the exclusive...
If socialism needs a prefix, it should be ‘revolutionary’ rather than ‘eco’
Continuing our series of articles and statements reflecting a wide range of Left Views on ecology, socialism, and ecosocialism. Permanent Revolution reviews Ecosocialism or Barbarism. “Shaking off the productivist dross of Marxism” Ecosocialism or...
Air Travel and Climate Change. Why Taxes Aren't the Answer
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...
UN Environment Report: Major threats to the planet put humanity at risk
(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...
Tar Sands and Canada’s Violation of Indigenous People
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...
EIN Website & Discussion Group Launched
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...
We Speak for Ourselves: Indigenous Peoples Challenge the Fossil Fuel Regime In Alberta
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...
Cuba: Restoring Lost Balance in Nature
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...
A Comment on the EIN
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...