Most gold mining in Peru causes serious environmental damage, write John Crabtree & Judith Condor-Vidal, but there is one exception - a Fair Trade certified mine close to the world-famous Nazca Lines. Now it's up to us to demand Fair Trade gold from the jewellery trade, rewarding responsible producers and expanding the market for new Fair Trade gold miners.
… Fair Trade gold mining in the highlands of Peru John Crabtree … | 14th January 2015 Ethical Living Mining Pollution Society Peru South America company-office-cut.jpg Mining with a human face - the Sotrami company …
They tried to influence government - but that's not working any more, writes John Vidal. So Friends of the Earth's new boss is taking a more radical approach rooted in community activism. And as he prepares for a storm of protest over fracking and cuts to wind and solar, he's ready to take on George Osborne in an 'ideological war' for the future of Britain.
… strategy to its limits. For if resisting coal mining gets Bennett singing in Welsh, …
The idea of a 'good, or even great, Anthropocene' as promised in the Ecomodernist Manifesto is purely delusional, writes Derrick Jensen. Worse, it underlies a narrative in which the wholesale destruction of nature and of sustainable indigenous societies is repackaged as a noble mission - one whose ultimate purpose is the complete alienation of humans from the planet that spawned us.
… "Mines." "Where do you get the miners?" Mining is one of the first three forms of …
Jeremy Corbyn's soaraway success in Labour's leadership contest poses an existential threat to the Greens, writes Rupert Read. To counter it we must re-assert our distinctive ethos, values, policies and principles, rooted in ecologism not socialism, respecting natural limits, opposed to endless economic growth, dedicated to building and sharing the wealth we all hold in common.
… this: Corbyn wants to bring back coal-mining in South Wales ! It would be hard to … an out-of-date 'extractivist' fixation with mining and miners - even if he does want to … more. This trio of policies - ending soil-mining industrial agriculture, initiating a …
Modern industrial capitalism is based on a simple premise, writes Derrick Jensen: our mother Earth is a great store of raw materials for us to pillage, and a vast trashcan for our endless volumes of waste, no matter how long-lived and deadly. How can this be changed? First we must regain our own sanity.
… groundwater? A: A capitalist: CEO of a gold mining corporation. We could talk about … in endocrine disruptors, and so on), or 'mining', or 'agriculture', or 'the Green …
The Conservative attack on the environment is being carried out for good reasons, writes Chris Rose: because they can; because it delights their support base; because it heads off UKIP; and because they think it carries no political risk. Now it's up the UK's green movement to prove them wrong. But have our 'herbivorous' NGOs got the stomach for a fight?
Strange happenings on a small island off Europe Chris Rose | 31st July 2015 News UK Politics Climate Change Society bullingdon-cut.jpg The Conservative attack on the environment is being carried out …
President Obama Earth Day appearance on the Florida Everglades' failed to disguise the truth, writes Grant A. Mincy - that governmental and corporate domination of ecosystems brings their all too predictable destruction. It's not national parks that will save our nature, but restoration of the commons and their management by local communities.
Earth Day on the River of Grass Grant A. Mincy | 25th April 2015 Comment Natural World Commons Society Protected Areas river-of-grass-cut.jpg President Obama Earth Day appearance on the Florida …
Coal companies and their 'sceptic' shills have almost given up on denying climate change, writes Brendan Montague. The new message is that coal is essential ... to end world poverty! And those who advocate climate action are 'harsh, cold-hearted' beasts. The one thing that hasn't changed? It's all lies.
Climate change? Let them eat coal! Brendan Montague DeSmog.uk | 21st July 2015 Comment Climate Change Fossil Fuels Coal Economics Society Corporations coal-india-cut.jpg Coal companies and their …
The Midwest's largest ever anti-tar sands demonstration took place in Minnesota last weekend, writes David Goodner, cementing a new alliance of diverse communities united in resisting the pollution and destruction of tar sands exploitation, processing and transportation.
#NoTarSands resistance march draws thousands in Midwest David Goodner Waging NonViolence | 14th June 2015 News Fossil Fuels Tar Sands Indigenous Peoples Pollution Toxics Society Protest …
The mass spraying of glyphosate in Colombia, both on farmland and in the 'war on drugs', is a direct an attack on small scale farmers, rural communities and FARC rebels, writes W.T. Whitney Jr. But since the chemical was declared a 'probable carcinogen' Colombia has restricted aerial applications. The first step in a wider backlash against the toxic herbicide?
… over for large-scale agricultural operations, mining projects and cattle ranching. Indeed, …
While we face 'hard choices' about which species and ecosystems to conserve, it's odd how we face no such quandaries over which of our frivolous luxuries to refrain from, or what murderous weapons system not to build, writes Derrick Jensen. And of course, there's no question at all of tackling the root causes of global ecocide.
… speed rail and groovy solar panels without mining and transportation and energy …
Thumbing rides must be one of the greenest forms of travel, and despite all the scare stories and public service warnings, drivers still stop for hitch-hikers. But Adam Weymouth fears for the future of hitching, as the 'sharing economy' sanitizes the experience and strips out the essential sense of adventure, revolution and travelling into the unknown.
Can hitch-hiking survive the 'sharing economy'? Adam Weymouth | 20th March 2015 Ethical Living Transport Society hitching-iceland-cut.jpg Thumbing rides must be one of the greenest forms of travel, …