Apple is moving to 100% renewable energy, worldwide, writes Robert Hunziker. But even better is CEO Tim Cook's fierce put-down to fossil-fuelled, climate skeptic shareholders: 'if you don't like it, sell!' Suddenly the politics of climate change in the US shifted ...
Apple bites back at climate skeptics Robert Hunziker | 6th May 2014 Comment Climate Change Corporations Fossil Fuels Renewables Energy apple-think-different.png Apple is moving to 100% renewable …
Ben Whitford takes a look at the candidates for the next Mayor of New York City and asks if any of them can fill the green shoes of Bloomberg........
After Bloomberg, will the Big Apple stay green? Ben Whitford | 20th September 2013 News Politics liberty.jpg Will the next Mayor of New York think about the next 20 years, or just the next election? …
As the G20 meet in China this weekend, it's time for governments to finally get tough on the world's tax dodgers, write Dipti Bhatnagar & Sam Cossar-Gilbert. The missing tax revenues would be able to finance a 100% renewable electricity system covering half the planet by 2030 - a major step in raising living standards and tackling climate change.
G20: Dodged taxes could finance renewable power for world's poorest 50% Dipti Bhatnagar Sam Cossar-Gilbert | 2nd September 2016 Comment Energy Renewables Finance Politics Green Economy Corporations …
Next to McDonalds, Burger King and KFC, Chipotle's Mexican Grill is a minnow, writes Jonathan Latham. But its decision to go GMO-free will ultimately compel all America's consumer-facing food brands to follow suit - because that's what their customers want. Could this be the beginning of the end of GMOs? That's what Monsanto, Dupont, Bayer and Syngenta fear.
… thought that their healthy fats and forever apples also contain proven toxins. And on a …
Environmentalist, democracy campaigner and Nobel laureate; Wangari Maathai led an extraordinary life but it's her overwhelming kindness and charm that I’ll always remember, says Ruth Styles
With the death of Wangari Maathai, the green movement has lost one of its greatest proponents Ruth Styles | 7th October 2011 Comment Wangari Maathai Green Belt Movement Africa Kenya Politics Society …
Apparent 'victories' in the fight against toxic chemicals - like the EU's failure to re-approve glyphosate yesterday - are illusory, writes Jonathan Latham. The real problem is not one of specific 'bad actors', but the entire system that allows new, likely to be toxic compounds to pollute the environment in near-total ignorance of their impacts. It's time to take our campaigning to a whole new level.
… implicitly treat certain chemicals as rotten apples. Some even explicitly refer to …
Biotech corporations have invested billions in a range of new 'GM 2.0' technologies designed to redesign the world's germplasm and create new generations of super-GMOs, writes Nina Holland. And powerful investors have no intention of letting tedious EU regulations get in the way of the profits they are now poised to reap - no matter what the laws actually say.
… EU decision making on new GM '. ' Of apples and potatoes: the Dutch lobby for the …
The Co-operative Group is in deep trouble. Its response is to sell off its farms, in defiance of all its founding values. Instead it should reconnect with its original purpose, write Helena Paul & Pete Riley, and seek creative and truly co-operative solutions.
… a thousand varieties of rare and endangered apples. At least one of its packing facilities …
David Cameron is gunning for a strong climate agreement in Paris this December, writes Dr Doug Parr. Meanwhile his government is doing all it can to undermine renewable energy and energy efficiency in the UK, and lock us into a high carbon, fossil-fuelled future. Can he really have it both ways?
David Cameron is losing the plot on climate change Doug Parr Greenpeace EnergyDesk | 16th July 2015 Comment Climate Change Energy Renewables Politics UK Transport cameron-wef-cut.jpg David Cameron is …
Green leader Natalie Bennett may have been lost for words on LBC yesterday, writes Adam Ramsay - but at least she doesn't charge £25,000 for a speech or £10,000 to have dinner with you. Unlike Jack Straw, Malcolm Rifkind and other politicians so deeply mired in corporate influence that they can't even see what they have done wrong.
… not because they highlight a few bad apples, but because they are a window into a …
Personnel at the EPA have been heavily impacted by the ongoing shutdown, leading some commentators to question the necessity of the government agency post-shutdown. Ben Whitford reports....
Could America do without the Environmental Protection Agency? Ben Whitford | 16th October 2013 News US Government Politics EPA epa-logo.jpg Would the U.S. environment suffer if the EPA was shutdown …
Why are we so surprised at the Google tax heist? It's not because there's anything new about it, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. It's because our own political class have long their noses in the trough, and the tax-dodging billionaires that own our mainstream media are anxious to hide the swindle that's keeping them rich, and us poor.
UK Tax Dodgers PLC - Google outrage is the tip of an iceberg Donnachadh McCarthy | 31st January 2016 Comment Finance Corporations UK USA Economics google-cut.jpg Why are we so surprised at the Google …
Corporations can be incredibly innovative, writes Paul Levy. But it's not always in good ways. Think of VW's clever device for fooling emissions tests, social media software that's way too intrusive for its own good, or sugary drinks marketed as 'healthy' when they're no such thing. Sadly, there's a lot of it about!
Toxic innovation: Volkswagen is the tip of a destructive iceberg Paul Levy University of Brighton | 20th October 2015 Comment Corporations Regulation Food Society sunny-d-cut.jpg Corporations can be …
Chemical giant Bayer has failed in its attempt to sue Friends of the Earth Germany over its claims that its pesticide Thiacloprid harms bees. Now pressure is growing on the EU to add the neonicotinoid to the three already banned.
… the UK including oil seed rape (canola) and apples, and it is sold direct to the public in …
If it wasn't climate change, was the real purpose of the Number 10 meeting of Theresa May's advisors and President Trump's environmental transition supremo Myron Ebell to plan the post-Brexit deregulation of UK farming, including pesticides? That's how it looks, writes Georgina Downs - and we had better begin now to fight for our health, wildlife and environment.
… latest Government statistics show that some apples are sprayed on average 21 times per …
Thanks to Andy Hall's investigations of abuses of migrant workers in Thailand's fish and pineapple industries, a criminal trial begins today in Bangkok - his own. He faces eight years in prison and a $10 million fine for exposing their crimes in a devastating report that has inspired international action against the companies involved.
… extends beyond fishing , seafood and pineapples , those products whose abusive supply … to stress this point and promote these 'good apples'. But in my experience, these good, …
Investment analysts say Oxitec's GM mosquito technology 'won't work, is way too expensive, and is many years from generating even minuscule revenue', writes Claire Robinson. As shares in its owner, Intrexon, slump, three law firms have announced they are investigating.
Analysts slate GM mosquito firm, shares plummet Claire Robinson GMWatch | 28th April 2016 News GMOs Health Corporations aedes-mosquito-cut.jpg Investment analysts say Oxitec's GM mosquito technology …
In California, water no longer runs to the sea - it runs towards money, writes Will Parrish. Most of the state's water is already controlled by agribusiness elites. Now, backed by politicians, they are planning to grab the little that's left, leaving nature and indigenous communities high and dry.
… Gravensteins, Jonathans, and Delicious apples of Western Sonoma County, and in places …
Both Trump and Brexit can be explained by the failure of mainstream political elites to address the pain inflicted on ordinary citizens in the neoliberal era, write Helena Norberg-Hodge & Rupert Read. In the US and the UK, working class voters rightly rejected the corporate globalisation that has created so much poverty and insecurity. But the real solutions lie not in hatred, but relocalisation.
… more transparent. We can see if the apples we are buying from the neighbouring …
Are GMOs safe? Up to a point, writes Jonathan Latham - provided you're not eating them. That's certainly not proven to be safe, indeed the hazards are numerous: protein encoding viral DNA fragments, herbicide metabolites, biotoxins whose operation is not understood, poorly conducted experiments ... and those are just the ones we know about.
Growing doubts over GMO safety: a scientist's experience Jonathan Latham | 31st August 2015 News GMOs Science Technology Health Corporations Regulation gmo-experiment-cut.jpg Are GMOs safe? Up to a …
With the Wall Street Journal warning that the GMO crop boom may be over in the face of superweeds, higher seed prices, falling yields and farmer antipathy, writes Pat Thomas, the Monsanto-Bayer merger is a sign of weakness as both companies struggle to deliver growth and profits to match shareholder expectations. We had better be ready to press home our advantage!
Bayer-Monsanto merger - corporate madness or a moment of possibility? Pat Thomas | 19th September 2016 News Corporations Farming Finance Food US EU Pesticides monsanto-cut.jpg With the Wall Street …
This week Finland cancelled its option for a second European Pressurised Reactor as the existing EPR project sinks into a abyss of cost over-runs, delays and litigation, writes Jim Green. It now looks like the EPR is a failed technology and its owner, French nuclear giant Areva, is fast running out of both money and orders as its 'hot prospects' evaporate.
Finland cancels Olkiluoto 4 nuclear reactor - is the EPR finished? Dr Jim Green Oliver Tickell | 15th May 2015 News Nuclear Corporations Energy Finance UK China France olkiluoto-snow-cut.jpg This …