Individual actions won’t change the world — but that doesn’t mean every advocate of personal change is headed in the wrong direction.
Dialectics in Science: An interview with Helena Sheehan
The tendency of some on the left to counterpose a humanistic Marx to a positivist Engels weakens Marxism, and is not supported by historical evidence.
Vertical farming: Another 'solution' that won't work
Building factory farms in urban skyscrapers is promoted as a way to fix our broken food system. Despite the good intentions of its advocates, it's a fantasy, an unrealistic techno-fix that can only divert attention from the need for real change.
Chasing Ice: A must-see film
Incredible photography, undeniable evidence of climate change
How First Nations organized against tar sands pipelines
Coastal First Nations leader explains how they won the support of 80% of British Columbians for the indigenous peoples' campaign against Enbrodge's pipeline plans
Population, consumption, and rectangles
Can elementary geometry explain environmental problems? Actually, no.
Climate disaster CAN be prevented
Practical, affordable solutions exist, but the necessary resources won't be mobilized so long as corporations, media barons and generals make all the big decisions.
Postmodern meets the class struggle, illustrated
Stop complaining, everything is relative ...
The new fight over who owns the earth
Book review: 'Landgrabbers' offers a bleak picture of land grabs by corporations for agriculture or resource exploitation and equally appalling 'green grabs' by conservationists
Bolivia at UN talks: The climate is not for sale!
"We did not come here to turn the climate into a business, or to protect businesses of them who want to continue aggravating the climate crisis, destroying Mother Earth. We came here to protect the future of humanity."
Pipeline politics: Can popular protest stop the tar sands leviathan?
Supported by the government and the opposition parties, Enbridge is pushing ahead with plans to pipe toxic bitumen through Ontario. First Nations and environmentalists are trying to mobilize public opposition.
Via Campesina: UN climate talks achieve nothing, promote false capitalist solutions
The international peasant movement denounces the use of the climate negotiations to legitimize business as usual at the expense of humanity and the planet, and rejects false capitalist solutions that will only worsen the climate and food crises.
The economic cost of U.S. food monopolies
In an economy dominated by monopolies, the food industry goes to extremes
Exxon hates your children
A short video that clearly states the simple truth
Ecosocialism and the fight for free public transit
Mass transportation is intimately tied not only to the physical form of cities, but to the deeper social structures of imperial capitalism. A campaign for free public transit can be an important part of a broader fight to restructure society along...
Flight Behavior: Climate change, poverty, and butterflies
Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel is a beautifully written and compelling account of working people responding to the local effects of a global crisis
Canada's climate policies are crimes against humanity
Canada's government is deliberately promoting policies that will kill over 100 million people by 2030. When will these criminals be called to account?
Oceans rising 60 percent faster than predicted
Study shows once again that the IPCC is far from alarmist, but in fact has under-estimated the problem of climate change
The unequal pain of climate change in Europe
New European Union report says "economically lagging regions are also the most vulnerable to climate change." Translation: Even in a rich continent, the poor will suffer most.
The World Bank's gross hypocrisy on climate change
The World Bank, which says emissions must be cut quickly to prevent catastrophic global warming, is a major investor in fossil fuel projects that are turning the heat up.