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Major environmental groups are ignoring climate scientists while lining their pockets with money from big polluters and the fossil fuel industry.
That is the gist of Johann Hari’s thorough piece of journalism in The Nation, entitled ‘The Wrong Kind of Green’. Apparently some seriously big players in the environmental movement are helping to greenwash big business [...]
Here’s something good that came out of COP15: The Stupid Show
I could spend hours watching these snippets and interviews from Franny Armstrong and company. They are both alternately and simultaneously interesting, depressing, amusing and sometimes even inspiring.
Armstrong is the filmmaker responsible for the eco-documentary The Age of Stupid. During the climate change conference in Copenhagen [...]
British companies with financial ties to Canada’s controversial tar sands oil operations will face considerable pressure this week from UK environmental lobbies and investors with ethical concerns.
The tar sands of Alberta, Canada are the world’s largest deposits of bitumen, a heavy, black form of crude oil extracted via surface mining. Generally considered to be of [...]
Economic recession, ‘Climategate’ and other ensuing scandals may have shaken both the public’s faith in – and concern about – the realities of man made climate change. Yet a fickle media or confused citizenry have not been enough for most political establishments to break from some kind of platform that takes climate change and other [...]
In several gold producing countries, recent increases in the value of the mineral have resulted in disastrous environmental consequences.A BBC News report highlights how gold mining in the south east of Peru– much of it illegal and therefore unregulated – is resulting in rainforest deforestation, mercury contamination and the illegal trafficking of women.
Close to 200 [...]
Majora Carter, an environmental justice activist based in the South Bronx, speaks to NBC Nightly News on how environmental issues and social justice are inexorably linked. Carter sees poor urban areas like inner city Detroit as forefronts of the green movement, where people have suffered, but not proportionally benefitted from current, unsustainable economic models. She [...]
Going green is becoming a very important thing these days; but how do you know what choices are really green? Does your choice of airline follow strict environmental practices? How safe are the ingredients in your health and beauty products? What about your favorite retail chain—what have they done to green their business?
Trying to read [...]
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) argues that ‘growth isn’t possible’ in a new report that challenges the current dominant global growth-based economic ideal. The thesis is that unlimited economic expansion is unsustainable, and factors in climate change and the inherent finite nature of the Earth’s natural resources.
This report concludes that a new macro economic model [...]
To the disappointment of environmental and indigenous rights groups, the construction of a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest has been green-lighted by the Brazilian environmental ministry. The Belo Monte dam project on the Amazon’s Xingu River will be the world’s third largest project of its kind. The hydroelectric dam is part of a [...]
In India, many factory workers heavily depend on coal power – which can be very environmentally harmful – to make ends meet.
– Al Jazeera English
Glass factories in Northern India provide the South Asian country’s poor with important jobs, yet the furnaces used in glass production are coal powered. Al Jazeera English reports on India’s carbon [...]
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