Suicide – the only way out of debt?
Leah Borromeo — October 11, 2012 2 Comments
Nearly 300,000 Indian farmers killed themselves to get out of debt between 1995 and 2011. In the state of Maharashtra alone, 4,453 people committed suicide in 2006. That’s around one every …
Economics, Editor's Pick, Environment, Film and Video
Going Beyond Zero
Karin McGregor — October 22, 2011 2 Comments
What if I told you that a 100% emissions-free future was possible? And that we could get there soon? Really soon – within about ten years? And that it is …
Environment
A price on pollution – reading beyond the rhetoric
Karin McGregor — October 22, 2011 1 Comment
Much of the rhetoric of Combet’s speech was given to imploring the audience to look past Tony Abbott's dishonest fear campaign, and hear the “facts” of why taking action on …
Environment
Bolivia: Fighting the climate wars
mog — April 14, 2011 1 Comment
John Vidal reports from La Paz where Bolivians are living with the effects of climate change every day. Their president has called for an urgent 50% cut in emissions - …
Environment
Indian Cotton Farmer Suicides, Pesticides and Fashion
Leah Borromeo — September 2, 2010 6 Comments
Up to 26 Indian cotton farmers a day commit suicide by drinking pesticides to kill themselves out of debt. When you bag a bargain, who pays for it? …
Editor's Pick, Environment
Corporate espionage in Ecuador
Mary Cuddehe — August 12, 2010 5 Comments
But just then my cell phone rang. It was a private-investigator friend from Mexico City calling about a "research" job in the jungle. I would have to go to Ecuador …
Editor's Pick, Environment
The Bolivian delegation at Copenhagen: A memory
Nick Buxton — May 20, 2010 1 Comment
Thanks to the courage of Bolivia and a few other nations – and against huge pressure and threats to sign the deal - the UN did not endorse or adopt …
Environment
Have BP let the leak continue to save the well for future extraction?
Michael Pravica — May 20, 2010 48 Comments
It is with a scientifically-illiterate public that global corporations (with GDPs greater than that of entire nations) have the most negative impact/sway on populations they do business with as they …
Editor's Pick, Environment
The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
Mother Earth — March 17, 2010 2 Comments
Preparations are now well advanced for the forthcoming, World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth, which is to be held in Cochabamba, Bolivia this …