Austerity
Bill Mitchell: ‘Sound finance’ prevents available climate solution with massive jobs potential
“The perfect match – tree planting and job creation” Read here
Environment
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment – Almost Two-Thirds of Palm Oil Consumed in the EU is Burned as Energy – New Data
This is typical for the EU. While citizens are trying to reduce their personal consumption of palm oil to protect the environment, the EU is increasingly using it in fuel. The new trade deal with […]
Environment
Reuters: Austrian parliament backs EU’s first total ban of weedkiller glyphosate
Apparently this sovereign decision will be overruled by EU law. Once again the EU proves that it is here to serve international corporations and not the people of Europe. Read here
Environment
Chris Williams – Who has the Power to Restore Nature?
“To create the change we really need, the time is now for bold action” – That mean u.s Chris Williams is Senior Programme Manager and the New Economics Foundation Cross-posted from New Economics Foundation The […]
Corruption
Rain Forest Rescue: EU destroys 700,000 hectares of rainforest for biofuels
The EU wants to save our climate with supposedly green biofuels and has deemed palm oil “sustainable”. Yet on the other side of the globe, rainforests are being clear-cut to produce the 1.9 million tons […]
Climate Crisis
Hauke Benner – The Economic System Question Arrives at the Centre of German Society
Germany will not be the same again. The week of protest against the climate crisis in the coal-mining region on the Rhein Hauke Benner is a former journalist and currently a political activist against climate […]
Climate Crisis
Common Dreams: ‘We Are Unstoppable, Another World Is Possible!’: Hundreds Storm Police Lines to Shut Down Massive Coal Mine in Germany
We should be posting an in depth report this week. In the meantime here is a good summary. Read here Activists run towards the Garzweiler open-cast mine. The protests for more climate protection in the […]
Climate Crisis
Tree Hugger: Why electric cars won’t save us: There are not enough resources to build them
“[W]e have to stop talking about how electric cars will save us; it takes too much stuff to make them all… We have to look… at making it easier for people to use… bikes, transit […]
Climate Crisis
Gareth Bryant: Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism
As the climate crisis deepens, fault lines between different possible political-economic pathways are widening. Read here
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment – Cruise Ships Poisoning City Air with Sulphur as much as Cars – New Data Reveals
Cruise ships are choking Europe’s port cities with the biggest cruise company, Carnival Corporation, emitting 10 times more sulphur oxides (SOx) than all of Europe’s 260 million cars, new research shows. Royal Caribbean Cruises, the […]