Economics
Ann Pettifor: Capitalism’s Attack on Time & Nature
Why governments and big oil cannot face the future. Read HERE Pie in the sky – photo: Jonathan McIntosh/Creative Commons
Sustainability
Energy
Balkan Green Energy News: Europe is facing energy crisis in winter because of Ukraine
About half of Ukraine’s power generation capacity isn’t in operation, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), so the country has turned from a net exporter of electricity to an importer. Read HERE Photo: State […]
DeGrowth
Chris Hedges: Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents
Climate activists are being locked behind bars while our rulers burn down the world, exemplified by the fossil-fuelled annihilation of Gaza. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years […]
Climate Crisis
Enzo Rossi – Growing Pains: Climate Change and the Socialist Transformation
The debate between those who advocate degrowth and those who advocate eco-modernism on the international left has often been unnecessarily polemical, and both sides have failed to offer a compelling vision to the public. Enzo […]
EU politics
ARC – CAP not Matching Europe’s Green Ambitions, say Auditors (again)
CAP 2023-2027 is greener than the previous CAP – but plans “do not match the EU’s ambitions for the climate and the environment”. That’s according to the ECA – the European Court of Auditors ARC2020 […]
Environment
Corporate Europe Observatory – Bayer’s Toxic Trails
Market power, monopolies, and the global lobbying of an agrochemical giant Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Photo: Bayer Leverkusen Corporate Europe Observatory takes a deep dive into the present – and dark past – of the German […]
Environment
Equal Times – Despite vastly different social and political contexts, Finland, Germany and France are all grappling with the question of safe nuclear waste disposal
Countries that have produced and relied on nuclear energy, like France, Germany and Finland, all face the same question: how to safely dispose of nuclear waste? Cross-posted from Equal Times Image: Marcin Wichary/Creative Commons “It […]
Climate Crisis
Tarique Niazi – How the Climate Crisis Is Shaping Geopolitics
As climate-related disasters intensify, the impacts on neighbouring states grow too. Tarique Niazi teaches environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. Cross-posted from Common Dreams Bangladesh was still reeling from political turmoil, […]
Climate Crisis
Bill McKibben – To Avoid Utter Ruin, We Must Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Volcano
There has been plenty of big shifts to the climate on planet Earth before, but not since humans have been here and never as fast as this. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at […]
Climate Crisis
Molly Harriss Olson – Leading with Truth in this Age of Consequences
There is a new understanding amongst sustainability leaders that we are already in the age of consequences, and our previous reticence to publicly explore that together is being overcome through the overwhelming weight of evidence […]