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Published in: openSecurityLatin Americans pay price for corporate environmental destruction
As the COP20 conference comes to a close in Lima, can the corporations whose ‘externalities’ foster climate change...
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Published in: HomeThe great tide of 31 January 1953
An enormous surge of water over the coastal lands of south-east England sixty years ago took hundreds of lives and...
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Published in: openIndiaIndia Burning
When the rice harvest season finishes in a few weeks, fields in India will turn black as farmers burn thousands of...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of myth making: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
Myths of human survival that evade questions of gender, race and social relations, won’t help us adapt in a world...
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Published in: HomeWhat is energy for?
So familiar has the social economy of energy become in modern societies, so routine its extraordinardinary...
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Published in: openIndiaMega dams: campaigning against the plans of the Indian government
In demonstrations barely reported in the media, peasants and students in the Northeastern Indian state of Assam are...
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Published in: oDRIn the backyard of Russia’s oil paradise
Pavlovo village was once a quiet backwater in the forest-steppe of Perm Region. In 1997, however, ecological...
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Published in: HomeEgypt, the Nile and the revolution
The fate of Egypt across the centuries is indissolubly linked to the river which gives it life. Today, a range of...
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Published in: HomeThe new food movement: politics and pleasure
The emergent movements around the politics of food are a vital component of debates on the planet’s future, says...
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Published in: HomeTaking the right path? The Centre for Alternative Technology and the politics of radical ecology
Reflecting on a recent visit to the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) and his life as an eco-activist, Charlie...
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Published in: HomeThe white and pleasant land
A racist assault on unfamiliar ground provokes Delwar Hussain to reflect on why the British countryside looks less...
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Published in: HomeSchool wars: France vs England
A flurry of reports that castigates the French school system also highlights the deficiencies of Anglocentric...
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Published in: HomeEcocentrism: a response to Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth’s journey from a degraded environmentalism to nature-centred ways of living and thinking has many...
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Published in: HomeConfessions of a recovering environmentalist
"Environmentalism, which in its raw, early form had no time for the encrusted, seized-up politics of left and right,...
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Published in: oDRSaving the Amur tiger
With the Amur tiger population facing extinction, organisations from Russia and abroad have been working to save...
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Published in: HomeThe blizzard of the world
The exhaustion of the planet and existing ways of life presents a creative challenge: exploring “uncivilisation”....
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Published in: HomeDoes environmentalism destroy the world?
openDemocracy and Resurgence launch the Dictionary of Ethical Politics to explore how our political concepts can...