The IPBES report outlines some changes necessary to avoid total ecocide, but doesn't call out the culpable corporate elites nor their vested interests.
… course. " Lowering total consumption and waste, including by addressing both population …
Rio Tinto's QMM mine in Madagascar was meant to be an exemplar of 'corporate social responsibility' and environmental best practice. But the reality experienced by local communities is different, writes Yvonne Orengo, with uncompensated land seizures, food insecurity, deforestation and social deprivation. New concerns are emerging about the infringement of legal buffer zones and radiation exposure. Rio Tinto must be held responsible for its actions!
… waterline has unseen impacts e.g., if toxic waste in tailings, a by product of the …
Advanced molecular genetic techniques are allowing scientists to breed disease resistance from wild grape varieties into susceptible domestic cultivars used for making wine, writes Andrew Walker. And it's all being done by conventional plant breeding accelerated by the use of DNA markers - with not a GMO in sight!
GMO-free molecular genetics launch golden age of disease-resistant grapes Andrew Walker | 22nd February 2015 Comment GMOs Farming Health Biodiversity Drink vine-lab-cut.jpg Advanced molecular genetic …
The senior project manager at Landlife, the charity working to bring people and wildlife closer together, on 'principled' dealings with corporations and why it's important to make politicians jealous
… Already hit by rows over radioactive waste and airport expansion, the London 2012 …
Deutsche Bank economist Pavan Sukhdev is heading up the groundbreaking TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) report and doing for nature what Sir Nicholas Stern did for climate change - valuing it
Pavan Sukhdev: you can have progress without GDP-led growth Tom Levitt | 22nd January 2010 Comment Economic Growth Biodiversity Deforestation Nature Natural World Politics And Economics …
The previous government came in on a bold promise to be the 'greenest ever', writes Jonathon Porritt. But what we got was a shameful record of ideologically driven policies that promoted fossil fuels, undermined action on climate, obsessed over nuclear power, did nothing to arrest the decline in the nation's wildlife and biodiversity - and suggest even worse to come.
… family energy bills, and the fight for less wasteful government. If I become Chancellor, …
For decades Israel has been driving Palestinian farmers off their land by imposing restrictions on agriculture, writes JONATHAN COOK. But one company, Canaan Fair Trade, has found an innovative way to resist peacefully, increasing resilience and prosperity in rural West Bank communities, and forging international alliances in the global movement for good food and farming.
… zones on fertile land in Area C is a criminal waste of Palestinian agricultural resources. … well-digging means an unstable supply and a wasteful use of a key resource. And ultimately …
A new exhibition draws inspiration from the plight of the Amazon and uses artwork to suggest and inspire creative solutions to an impending environmental catastrophe
… to spoil any view Many plastic bags end up as waste on our streets, parks and beaches. Rosie …
Yellowstone Park is home to America's last pure-bred wild bison, writes George Wuerthner. Yet the Park's management is planning to kill around a thousand of these precious animals this winter. Ostensibly it's to protect cattle on public lands near the park from brucellosis. But bison have never been known to transmit the disease to them. The real reason is to keep all the pasture for livestock.
Bloodbath in Yellowstone: the park's plan to slaughter 1,000 wild bison George Wuerthner | 14th December 2015 Activism USA Natural World Mammals Farming Biodiversity Ecology yellowstone-bison-cut.jpg …