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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...
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Published in: HomeClimate politics: a melting glacier...
A new political tone on climate change in Britain is matched by a breakthrough in understanding the retreat of...
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Published in: HomeA flooded future: Essex to the world
Two floods, two eras, two worlds. The contrast between 1953 and 2014 in southern England is a lesson both in class...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKClimate - how UKIP and the Tory right will defeat themselves
Why are those so opposed to migration so blind to something that will cause it to increase so dramatically?
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Published in: ourNHSWhat climate change denier Owen Paterson needs to learn about science
The UK environment minister pretends global warming isn’t happening. Advisers should put a new report from Medact on...
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Published in: HomeThe Arctic disconnect
If long-term climate disruption is a reality, so is the prospect of short-term benefit for states such as Canada and...
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Published in: TransformationWelcome to 'frackland': does a river have the right not to be polluted?
Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas or ‘fracking’ is one of the dirtiest forms of energy on the planet. Halting its...