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Published in: openDemocracyUKLatest IPCC report fortunately shows we can still prevent climate change
The science is clear, where is the political will?
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Published in: TransformationThe future of the climate debate
The cutting edge of the climate change debate was absent from recent events in New York City, including mass...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThis changes everything: interview with Naomi Klein
Ahead of the UK launch of her new book on climate change, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate",...
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Published in: openSecurityClimate summit, climate justice
The climate summit called today by the United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon, will not bring the commitments...
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Published in: 50.50Climate and Indigenous Peoples: the real dispute at the UN
With both the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and the Climate Summit underway at the UN, far more important...
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Published in: TransformationConfessions of a climate change denier
The global people's climate march is the right time to confront the culture of denial that still exists among many...
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Published in: TransformationWe need more humans, not more heroes
Exaggerated by the growing celebrity culture of social change, hero worship is on the rise. In the process we risk...
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Published in: TransformationSeeing true nature: Buddhism and the environment
In an age of increasing environmental destruction, Buddhism can inspire the ecological awareness that’s necessary...
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Published in: oDRThe (Russian) meat of the matter
The Russian-led Customs Union has introduced new rules on slaughtering livestock. A massive rise in meat prices is...
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Published in: HomeEthics committee to universities: oil research can be unethical
The Norwegian committee on research ethics tells institutions that oil research, often sponsored by the industry, is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe struggle for freedom and food sovereignty: a letter of solidarity to the farmers of Syria
The loss of control over processing agricultural goods, such as turning grains into flour, have made it easier for...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s gamekeeper has turned poacher
Russia has a vast number of nature reserves and national parks. But the government body supposed to be protecting...
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Published in: TransformationNo surrender: responding to the new breed of climate change in-activists
Waiting for death in the planetary hospice is not a convincing response to climate change: a response to Carolyn Baker.
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Published in: TransformationWelcome to the planetary hospice
Surrendering to the implications of climate change is an act of courage not cowardice. This is the first article in...
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Published in: openSecurityTrapped by borders, a global flotsam and jetsam
They arrive nameless and unnumbered by land or sea but ever-more unregulated migrants across the globe are falling...
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Published in: openSecurityThe conflict horizon
The last two decades have seen a growing global appetite for peace but unless concerted, informed action is taken...
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Published in: TransformationBrought together by the Keystone Pipeline fight, "Cowboys and Indians" heal old wounds
As Native Americans and ranchers work together to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, they're also learning to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy anti-consumerism is not enough
Rejecting population growth as a valid topic for environmental concern relies on the assumption that the world's...
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Published in: 50.50Climate change and false gods: Moloch and the bible-punchers in the US
The UN's IPCC report on climate change calls for immediate action to deal with a crisis which supersedes and...
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Published in: HomeA different climate
Many new paths to climate action are being taken, with the global south in the forefront. Even modest support and...