Video: What does massive environmental devastation look like? In this powerful and moving presentation, photographer Garth Lenz shows the world's largest and most destructive industrial project and shares his stunning photos of the ecosystems and...
Great Lakes have lost 71% of winter ice cover
Need proof of global warming? Ice cover on the Great Lakes fell nearly three-quarters between 1973 and 2010.
Carbon Blood Money in Honduras
A bloody struggle in Central America shows how schemes supposedly designed to offset carbon emissions can destroy lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries.
Welcome to the new Climate & Capitalism
Today we launch an upgraded and completely redesigned Climate & Capitalism. I’m very excited about the transformation, which is part of the alliance with Monthly Review that was announced
Richard Levins: Capitalism, hunger and health
[Quotes and Insights #28] “The continuation of hunger in the modern world is not the result of an intractable problem thwarting our best efforts to feed people. Rather, agriculture in the capitalist world is directly concerned with profit and only...
Paul Sweezy: Capitalism versus the environment
[Quotes and Insights #27] Since there is no way to increase the capacity of the environment to bear the burdens placed on it, it follows that the adjustment must come entirely from the other side of the equation. And since the disequilibrium has...
Why Marx Was Right
Terry Eagleton. Why Marx Was Right. Yale University Press, 2011 reviewed by Dave Kellaway International Viewpoint “So you’re for the revolutionary Marxist overthrow of parliamentary democracy then.” This was the question flung by presenter Andrew...
Bertolt Brecht: A song about carbon pricing
[Quotes and Insights #26] by Dave Riley Die Massnahme (The Measures Taken or The Decision) was the first of Bertolt Brecht’s “learning” plays. It is a heavily didactic perhaps — even a tres propagandistic (egads!) and...
Fracking: The new global water crisis
Executive Summary of Fracking: The new global water crisis, published March 9, 2012 by Food and Water Watch Within the past decade, technological advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” have enabled the oil and gas...
James Hansen: Why I speak out about climate change
Video: Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that change is happening and why that makes him deeply worried...
Green Washed: Why we can’t buy our way to a green planet
Book Review: Pierre-Louis hasn’t just done her research, she has organized and presented it very well, making a convincing case that green shopping cannot save the planet: that alone makes it a valuable resource for green activists. Pierre-Louis’s...
Friedrich Engels: Can humanity conquer nature?
[Quotes and Insights #25] A persistent myth holds that Marx and Engels had unlimited faith in humanity’s ability to conquer nature and create ever more abundance — and no interest in sustainability or ecology. The myth falls apart when we...
Opening Pandora’s Box: The new wave of land grabbing
This trend is now a major driver of land grabbing globally, and poses a significant threat to the world’s indigenous communities, farmers and local food production systems, as well as to precious water, forests, biodiversity, critical ecosystems and...
Malaysia: Largest environmental protest condemns toxic refinery plans
“The message is clear. The people have spoken up… The people do not want the Lynas Project in Malaysia” Related posts… (auto-generated) How can the climate change movement move ahead in 2012? The largest oil spills in history, 1901...
Fukushima disaster was caused by Japan's nuclear authorities, not the tsunami
“This disaster was predictable and predicted, but happened because of the age-old story of cutting corners to protect profits over people” [Common Dreams, Feb 28, 2012] A new report released today by Greenpeace argues it was neither the 7.1...
A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests
Global Justice Ecology Project and Global Forest Coalition announce the release of the DVD of “A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests.” In the month since we released it online, A Darker Shade of Green has been...
Natural gas: another magic bullet that won't stop climate change
“If you take 40 years to switch over entirely to natural gas, you won’t see any substantial decrease in global temperatures for up to 250 years. There’s almost no climate value in doing it.” ++++++ by Mike Lemonick Climate Central, Feb. 28, 2012 ...
No time to waste on transition to green energy
Even if we convert totally tomorrow, it would be decades before the transition from coal-based power brings temperature benefits. We have delayed too long already and it is time to get started. +++++++++++++ by Kate Ravilious Environmental Research...
Via Campesina call to action – Rio +20 and Beyond
We call for a major world mobilization to be held between 18-26 June in Rio de Janeiro, with a permanent camp, for the Peoples Summit, to counter the summit of governments and capital.
Social movements call for a Permanent Peoples’ Assembly, Rio 2012
For our rights and the rights of nature, against the commodification of life and the greenwashing of capitalism … Mobilize together towards Río+20 and beyond ++++++++++++++ We, organizations, networks and social movements, involved in the...