A deal to give up 500,000 acres of public lands in Utah to the tar sands industry in return for 1.5 million acres of industry is a sacrifice too far, writes Alexander Reid Ross, as it disclaims the wider costs of massive water use and contamination in the headwaters of the Colorado River, already seriously stressed by drought.
… Wilderness Society's 'Grand Compromise' is a … seriously stressed by drought. The Wilderness Society is celebrating with the Southern Utah … this, so it's not a surprise." The Wilderness Society is shy about discussing the impacts of …
Mining corporations, politicians and big NGOs are meeting in London today to plan the future of extractive industries in Africa, write Nnimmo Bassey & Sheila Berry. Absent African civil society and impacted communities, delegates are setting an agenda for 'resource-led development' that will cook the continent in the greenhouse gases of its plundered oil, gas and coal.
… Bassey & Sheila Berry. Absent African civil society and impacted communities, delegates … is our environment. Designed to exclude civil society? That's how it looks By hosting this … prevented the participation of African civil society and community members. In doing so, …
It’s hard to learn much or do much about sustainability without getting your hands dirty.
… Oil Soil Garden Post-carbon Oil Green Living Society Soily_Hands_Web_MAIN.jpg It’s hard to … notice that the ecological basis of their society is being undermined. Sound familiar? …
Heavy on the moralising, light on cheer, a new book on low-carbon living has Phil England reaching for the classics
… And Analysis Oil Community Climate Change Society Archive_248.jpg Heavy on the … Oil and Climate Change by Pat Murphy (New Society Publishers, £11.99) This article first …
Bongani Mthembu talks to the Ecologist about the struggles and successes in achieving environmental justice in South Africa’s townships
… Hannah Corr | 26th October 2011 Activism Society How To Make A Difference Pollution Oil … involved in our campaigns and changing the society they live in. We believe change starts … We’ve tried to involve them in changing our society for the better but it’s been a …
Isolated by the surrounding desert, Kashgar was once
an oasis on the old Silk Road. Now the city is being overwhelmed in the rush to open up the region’s oil and gas reserves. By Dan Box.
… Carbon Dioxide Oil Indigenous Peoples Energy Society Isolated by the surrounding desert, … means a better chance of success within Han society. But that opportunity means choosing … tongue. The choice is between joining the new society or remaining Uyghur, and parents must …
An 500-strong Indigenous community in Alberta, the heart of Canada's environmentally catastrophic tar sands industry, is fighting back against the pollution, writes Melina Laboucan-Massimo - by cutting themselves adrift from dependence on fossil fuels, and starting up their own solar power station: a vital first step towards building a just and sustainable society.
… step towards building a just and sustainable society. Refusing to be victims in this game … own their own power and can build a just society which will help save our planet and … own their own power and can build a just society. …
Is it a coincidence that the terrorist outrage in Paris was committed weeks before COP21, the biggest climate conference since 2009? Perhaps, writes Oliver Tickell. But failure to reach a strong climate agreement now looks more probable. And that's an outcome that would suit ISIS - which makes $500m a year from oil sales - together with other oil producers.
… more isolated from Paris itself, and civil society, than they were already going to be. … the city's many charms. And as for civil society ... It's estimated that ten thousand …
BP offers business-as-usual dividend payout despite historic drop in profits.
… to a more resilient climate and economy. "Our society’s response to the COVID challenge has … on a press release from Greenpeace. Our society’s response to the COVID challenge has …
None of the various technofixes on offer alter the fact that humanity has to learn to stop living on the last drops of cheap energy, and to start living within its means
… systems impose physical limits upon human society. We may be told that our present … to continue the industrialisation of human society, human development over this coming … can abandon the delusional notion that human society is not subject to ecological limits, …
Report finds Kansas-based Koch Industries has been financing opposition to environmental regulation, clean energy and climate scepticism
… | 30th March 2010 News Climate Change Oil Society Politics And Economics bribe.jpg … should be based on sound science. Both a free society and the scientific method require an …
Former Shell oil boss Mark Moody Stuart's ableptic, self-satisfied book on 'responsible leadership' left Danny Chivers seething. The sooner we stop caring about the opinions of the Moody-Stuarts of this world, he concludes, the sooner we're likely to improve it.
… Danny Chivers | 16th May 2014 Reviews Oil Society Fossil Fuels Climate Change … partnerships between oil companies and civil society, bemoans the problems caused by …
The UK government has spent nearly £4 billion pounds of UK public funding on fossil fuel infrastructure in the global south since the Paris Agreement was signed.
… workers, communities, trade unions and civil society across the world. Challenge … Covid-19 pandemic will look like, while civil society voices (such as the #BuildBackBetter … communities, workers, trade unions and civil society to ensure that it is a just and …
Our lives are now so dependent on oil that it is impossible to conceive of a world without it. Before long, however, we will have no choice. The sooner we start planning for that reality, and changing the way we live, the better our chance of survival.
… Warming Ozone Layer Cars Green Living Energy Society CONSEQUENCESOIL_OCT05_MAIN.jpg Our … is changing from an industrial to an agrarian society. While energy use in Cuba is now … end of the age of oil By Michael Ruppert New Society, 2005, US $19.95 High Noon for Natural …
Following the shooting of Virunga's chief warden last week, WWF is calling on UK oil company Soco International PLC to pull out of the Park and respond to allegations made in a new documentary premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival.
… recent months protesters from across civil society have voiced firm opposition to Soco's … , UNESCO, the European Parliament, civil society and so many others." Soco is traded …
Who has the longest nose of them all? Worthy winners of France's fiercely contested 'Prix Pinocchio' 2014 were selected last night, recognising corporate greed, hypocrisy and malfeasance, based on a record vote since the awards began.
… corporations' activities are having on society and the environment" , commented … repeated inquiries and questioning civil society, as well as the filing of a complaint …
The intimate connection between landscape and religion is at the center of Native American societies, writes Rosalyn R. LaPier, and a key reason why thousands of Native Americans and Indigenous peoples from around the world have traveled to the windswept prairies of North Dakota. There is no excuse for the ignorance and disrespect of corporations, and government.
Dakota Access Pipeline: Native American religion matters! Rosalyn R. LaPier Harvard University | 8th November 2016 Comment Religion Indigenous Peoples USA Law Energy Oil Corporations The Land …
The US, long the world's biggest oil consumer, has just surpassed Saudi Arabia to become the world's top oil producer, writes Don Lieber. Oil exports to Europe and Asia will begin shortly. Now what was that Obama said about climate change? Oh, forget it ...
… Administration , said, "As long as human society continues to emit CO2 from burning … still largely be determined by choices society makes about emissions." Obama's …
Are SUVs a crime against civilisation, or paragons of efficiency? Are they ugly, arrogant and antisocial, or bright, beautiful and mobile? And do the polar passions they arouse pit the politics of envy against the Americanisation of British culture? Paul Kingsnorth and Michael Harvey discuss
… score of just four out of 36. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents … our spiralling and unnecessary energy use: a society-wide issue, of which driving SUVs is … end if we are to live in any kind of decent society. Then, just as I thought we might be …
BP's plans to explore for oil in the deep seas of the Great Australian Bight came under fire today at the company's Annual General Meeting in London, writes Graham Readfearn. The drilling would risk the ocean's rich marine wildlife - while blowing a massive hole in Australia's COP21 emissions targets.
… by conservation group The Wilderness Society. It concludes that adding the oil from … week. No more Deepwater Horizons! Wilderness Society South Australia Director Peter Owen …
Most officials in both Europe and the UK still believe peak oil is a problem the markets will solve. That's a dangerous game to play with our energy supplies, says Lionel Badal
Policymakers recognise peak oil threat, now they need to deal with it Lionel Badal | 2nd August 2010 Comment Peak Oil Energy Oil fuelgauge.jpg UK officials admit they don't know who to believe on …
Left wing governments across the Americas are faced with a dilemma, writes Daniel Macmillen - high social spending programs financed by income from destructive mining and hydrocarbon extraction - or a slower but sustainable development path that puts ecology, equity and justice first. Their answer - a constant pushing back of the resource frontier.
… Venezuela Bolivia Oil Gas Fossil Fuels Mining Society Politics Development … 22 times over . Populated by a vibrant civil society and indigenous communities with …
President Obama's whistlestop Alaskan tour highlighted his unique ability to believe in two completely contradictory ideas at once, writes Timothy Clark. On the one hand, the importance of climate change and the urgency of preventing dangerous warming. On the other, the importance of the Arctic's fossil energy and the urgent need to exploit it as rapidly and completely as possible.
… It is an existential threat to complex human society, whose causes require serious … vulnerable ecosystem, at a time where human society stands on the precipice of potentially …
War on Iraq is about a lot more than boosting oil companies’ profits. It’s the latest battle in the ongoing war over who gets to control the earth’s remaining energy reserves. By Lutz C Kleveman.
… Oil Oil War Military Boycotts US Fuel Energy Society NEWGAME_APRIL03_MAIN.jpg War on Iraq …