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Published in: TransformationWhy is there so little action on climate change?
Are there new ways to engage the public in mass action to reduce global warming, or should we focus on adapting to...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter the demonstrations ...
The popular outpouring in France, taken with the climate marches in September with which it would not at first be...
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Published in: oDRThe buckwheat crisis in Russia
Buckwheat prices in Russian shops are soaring without any apparent reason. Russians are stocking up on this...
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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: oDRThe battle for the Siberian harvest
President Putin’s special envoy to the Urals, recently praised the region’s farmers for their heroic efforts to save...
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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...