Category: Environment
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Climate Convergence Moves Us Forward, But Challenges Us to Create a Strategy
The Global Climate Convergence with its more than one hundred workshops, its large plenary sessions, and its miles-long mass march of more than 300,000 people, the largest climate protest in … Keep reading »
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Beyond 2015: Is Another Development Possible?
As we near 2015, the United Nations (UN) will probably set new objectives on behalf of the global community to supersede the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs are held … Keep reading »
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Ten Points for a Trade Union Strategy Against Climate Change
Since each of us gets only a few minutes for our contributions on such a large subject as climate change, I have chosen to put forward ten brief points for … Keep reading »
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We Need System Change to Stop Climate Change
Viking I landed on Mars, the Ramones released their first album, the Soweto Uprising began in South Africa, North and South Vietnam reunified to become the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, … Keep reading »
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The Outsize (un)Importance of the Tar Sands
It’s easy to overestimate the importance of the tar sands to the Canadian economy. Tar sands and their pipelines are, after all, hailed by the ruling Conservatives, sections of the … Keep reading »
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The Commons As a Fount of Hope
The commons is not just a battlefield between corporate predators and those who resist them – it is also a source of hope for those willing to imagine a world … Keep reading »
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Climate Change: Engine of Inequality
Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change started the publication of its 5th Assessment Report (or AR5), initially showing the work by the Working Group I, which deals with … Keep reading »
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Oil, Tar Sands, Coal, Natural Gas
Santa Barbara, California — 11 April 2014. What’s behind the expansion drive of Canada’s and North America’s fossil fuel industries? Coal extraction, natural gas fracking and shale oil fracking are all … Watch video »
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The Contradictions of Localism
Jordy Cummings (JC): Your book is called No Local and it is an immanent critique of inward looking reactions to neoliberal capitalism. One poignant episode you recount surrounds urban agriculture, … Keep reading »
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First Nations Fight Against the Frackers
After facing months of protest led by the Mi’kmaq people of the Elsipogtog Nation in New Brunswick, the frackers of Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co. (SWN) have left the province and … Keep reading »
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Voices of Resistance to the Northern Gateway Pipeline
At the time of writing, the National Energy Board’s Joint Review Panel (JRP) has just published its recommendation that the Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway to transport Alberta’s tar sands oil … Keep reading »
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The Fossil Fuel Wars in British Columbia and Canada
The fossil fuel industry offensive in British Columbia and across Canada is proceeding relentlessly. This is a report from some of the key fronts of the fossil fuel wars. Tar Sands … Keep reading »