More than 31,000 animals were used in glyphosate 'safety' tests. Are we safe now?
Pesticide safety and flawed animal testing Emily McIvor | 28th February 2019 News Pesticides Monsanto PETA Food And Farming Animal Testing Thought Leaders animal-1554745_960_720.jpg More than 31,000 …
Former environment minister Michael Meacher on the place of humanity in the universe, intelligent design, the survival of the human race, Gaia theory and uncertainties over climate change
… minister Michael Meacher on the place of humanity in the universe, intelligent design, …
Australia's climate change commissioner and author of new book Here on Earth talks to Matilda Lee about Gaia's true principles, the power of the internet and why legally binding climate treaties are pointless
… the globalised common intelligence of humanity, is a massively powerful information … minister Michael Meacher on the place of humanity in the universe, intelligent design, … Are We The Virus? - James Lovelock Does humanity need to be cut out of the ecosystem? …
With industry spinning that glyphosate is harmful to health, if at all, only with co-formulants like tallowamine, the World Health Organisation's cancer agency IARC has just released a Q&A document (below) stating that 'pure' glyphosate poses similar cancer and genotoxicity risks as its formulations. Banning particular co-formulants, as proposed by some EU countries, does not solve the problem.
WHO / IARC: glyphosate itself is the cancer and genotoxicity problem IARC | 11th March 2016 Comment Health Un Pesticides Toxics Regulation EU glyphosate-3d-vdw-cut-2.png With industry spinning that …
News headlines today suggest that a UN report on glyphosate residues has given the controversial herbicide a clean bill of health, writes Georgina Downs. But that's seriously misleading: the panel concludes that exposure to the chemical in food is unlikely to cause cancer. But that does not apply to those exposed to it occupationally or who live near sprayed fields.
No, the UN has not given glyphosate a 'clean bill of health' Georgina Downs | 17th May 2016 News Pesticides Health Toxics Un Regulation Media one.jpg News headlines today suggest that a UN report on …
Pesticides remain the 'elephant in the room' for Michael Gove, the environment secretary, and DEFRA. But until the issue is properly addressed the environmental crisis and fears for human health will only continue, argues GEORGINA DOWNS
Is the new UK Agriculture Bill a triumph or a travesty? Georgina Downs | 14th September 2018 Comment Pesticides Agriculture Bill DEFRA Thought Leaders gove_snowy_3271751b.jpg Pesticides remain the …
The Export Credit Guarantee Department is accused of underwriting unethical and carbon-intensive business deals in developing countries and operating with a lack of transparency - charges it denies.
How secretive government agency funded BP pipeline blighted by human rights allegations Sarah Bentley | 15th March 2011 News Politics And Economics ECGD WWF Oxfam Jubilee Debt Human Rights …
David Nicholson-Lord explains why trying to discuss human population growth these days is like placing your head on a stand at a coconut shy
… Economics Politics Lifestyle Enviroment Humanity Biology Genetics Population Famine … for example, tells us not only that in 2001 humanity as a whole overshot the Earth’s …
A new Ecology Party would work for a change in values, a paradigm shift in which human beings learn to work with the grain of the natural world, instead of against it.
… Party’ Feb, 2005), the environment – and humanity’s relationship with it – would be the … the aim of political ecology is to re-embed humanity in nature. One of the main aims of … of wounds between human groups and between humanity and the planet. It would move from …
Human rights violations have been reported at plantations in virtually all major tea producing countries, while tea growing itself has a profound effect on the local environment. William McLennan reports
Environmental damage and human rights abuses blight global tea sector William McLennan | 13th April 2011 News Tea Africa Food And Farming Pesticides billy-final-tea-image.jpg Tea being loaded in …
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.
The problem is not glyphosate, or DDT, or BPA - we must challenge the entire system! Jonathan Latham | 20th May 2016 News Toxics Pesticides Regulation Corporations Campaigning Science …
The UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome has today launched a new report examining the impact of chemical intensive, industrial food system on human health. GEORGINA DOWNS responds.
Expert panel identifies unacceptable toll of food and farming systems on human health Georgina Downs | 17th October 2017 News Un Pesticides Food Health Cancer 405530.jpg The UN Committee on World …
Lush Cosmetics have teamed up with the Humane Society International to launch a campaign to ensure long-awaited proposals banning products tested on animals outside the EU are fully enforced
TAKE ACTION to end cosmetic testing on animals Mark Briggs | 24th April 2012 Activism Natural World Politics And Economics Health Cosmetics Animal Testing Campaigning Basics …
In the month that the world's first Fair Trade gold is launched, Human Rights Watch release a film reporting on alleged abuses at Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea
Gold's Costly Dividend: film reveals the hidden side of gold production The Ecologist | 21st February 2011 Other Gold Politics And Economics Natural Resources Video congomining.jpg In the month that …
The zealous participation of European Greens in the campaign to thwart Rocco Buttiglione is indicative of the capture of green politics by an unreconstructed, unreformed and unelectable left
… holistic view of the individual, society and humanity's place in the web of life. Green … with, rather than against, the grain of humanity and nature. This was an attractive, … nurturing extends to the relationship between humanity and planet, between human beings and …
New research suggests that we are heading for an "ecological Armageddon" that will affect all life on the planet, including humans. COLIN TODHUNTER investigates.
… various forms of structural violence on humanity, including the waging of chemical …
World leaders must act. We are drowning in promises.
… hunger, health and climate crises facing humanity, the G7 must find the political … decisive action that corrects the course of humanity’s relationship with nature ahead of … hunger, health and climate crises facing humanity, the G7 must find the political …
Flea powder probably isn't something you think often about. But with some frighteningly toxic ingredients you should: they can be deadly for you and your pets
Behind the Label: Flea Powder Pat Thomas | 11th January 2011 Ethical Living Flea Powder Pets Behind The Label Health Pesticides Toxins istock_000012688989xsmallcrop.jpg Flea powder probably isn't …
Author Clive Hamilton on why we've left it too late to stop climate change, his horror over geoengineering and the urgent need to become citizens rather than consumers
Clive Hamilton: 'solving climate change is out of the question' Tom Levitt | 26th May 2010 Comment Climate Change Psychology Society Politics And Economics clivehamilton.jpg Author Clive Hamilton on …
Investigation into the dangers faced by lawyers who champion human rights and environmental justice.
Using the law to protect the environment Andrew Wasley | 19th June 2009 Activism Wildlife Politics And Economics Lawyers Environmental Justice Human Rights Columbia Bolivia China …
‘Immortal’ and created solely to amass ever larger amounts of wealth, limited-liability corporations institutionalise dissatisfaction. They are, Derrick Jensen writes, the economic manifestation of the Buddhist notion of ‘hungry ghosts’ – spirits that roam the earth, always eating, never sated.
Corporate power wielded through limited liability status Derrick Jensen | 20th March 2001 News Limited Liability Corporations Corporation Corpo Human Rights Violations Companies Politics And …
European Union regulations stop exposure to pesticides that are mutagenic, carcinogenic, or that disrupt endocrine systems - but that protection may not last.
EU 'may legalise human harm from pesticides' Hans Muilerman Dr Jonathan Latham | 12th April 2019 News EU Pesticides Science And Systems 13393612819686.jpg European Union regulations stop exposure to …