Publications

GJEP on What Really Happened in Copenhagen
Global Justice Ecology Project attended the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December along with allies from all around the world.  Global Justice Ecology Project Executive Director Anne Petermann and Co-Director/Strategist Orin Langelle report in this month's issue of Z Magazine (linked below) what happened in Copenhagen and what it means for the future of climate change activism in the U.S. and worldwide.  Also included is a link to a 28 minute radio interview of ...

2/17/2010 3:12 am  Read More  


Annual Report 2008
Download our 2008 Annual Report for a description of this past year's endeavours and accomplishments.  If you would like us to mail you the printed version of the report, simply contact us with your name and address. 2008 Annual Report.pdf ...

1/18/2010 1:31 pm  Read More  


REDD Realities
19th January 2010 While REDD proponents and critics often provide lists of conditions that should be met before REDD can go ahead, they rarely conclude that REDD should not go ahead if these conditions are not met. As Simone Lovera explains in "REDD Realities" many of the conditions are ...

1/22/2010 12:58 pm  Read More  


Climate Change: Crisis and Challenge
Download Global Justice Ecology Project's 8 page booklet "Climate Change: Crisis and Challenge" with the PDF below: GJEP climate change statement.pdf ...

7/22/2009 4:41 am  Read More  


GE Trees, Cellulosic Biofuels & Destruction of Forest Biodiversity
To download a PDF of the Global Justice Ecology Project article on the dangers of genetically engineered trees and cellulosic agrofuels (unsustainably produced biofuels) click the icon below: GE Trees= Cell Eth-comp.pdf ...

7/22/2009 4:36 am  Read More  


Changing the Flow: Water Movements in Latin America
This 56 page booklet was produced by Food and Water Watch, Red Vida, Transnational Institute, The RPR Network and Other Worlds.  (Cover photo: Orin Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project)It was distributed at the 5th World Water Forum held in Istanbul,Turkey 16-22 March 2009.  Water Rights activists blasted the World Water Forum as a "Corporate Trade Show to Promote Privatization."The booklet is comprised of individual and collective stories throughout Latin America.  The entire booklet can be downloaded below: ChangingTheFlow-3.pdf ...

4/21/2009 8:50 am  Read More  


Rising Tide Organization's 'False Solutions' Booklet
This booklet, published by Rising Tide North America gives analysis and critique on the false solutions to climate change being promoted. RT_Booklet.pdf ...

4/21/2009 8:57 am  Read More  


Z Magazine: UN Climate Convention: World Carbon Trade Organization
UN Climate ConventionBy Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle(from the February edition of Z Magazine)The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) once again failed to take concrete steps to avert the ever-worsening climate crisis at its 14th Conference of the Parties (COP-14), held December 1-12 in Poznan, Poland. This failure has been widely denounced by social movements, climate justice groups, and indigenous peoples organizations that have already begun to organize a mass mobilization around the next Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, scheduled for December 2009.The day before the Poznan meetings began, activists ...

8/13/2009 4:33 am  Read More  


Z Magazine: Biodiversity Loses at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity
One Leap Backwards for Biodiversity, One Giant Step Forward for IndustryBiodiversity loses at UN convention on biodiversityBy Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle(from the July 2008 edition of Z Magazine)The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) emerged, along with its cousin the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), out of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Its mission is ostensibly to recommend solutions to the escalating biodiversity crisis, which is manifesting in the extinctions of hundreds of species every day and which threatens the existence of entire races of people.The CBD was thought to be one of the more approachable ...

8/13/2009 4:34 am  Read More  


2007 Annual Report
Below is Global Justice Ecology Project's fiscal year 2007 Annual Report. 2007AnnualReportWeb.pdf ...

3/26/2009 2:57 pm  Read More  


The True Cost of Agrofuels: Food, Forests, and the Climate
The True Cost of Agrofuels: Food, Forests and the Climate. The report, co-produced by Global Justice Ecology Project and Global Forest Coalition (GFC), details the impacts of the large-scale production of agrofuels on forests and indigenous peoples around the world. agrofuels_report5:16comp.pdf ...

3/26/2009 3:11 am  Read More  


Making a Killing: The Military-Industrial Complex and Impacts on the Third World
Global Justice Ecology Project board member Aziz Choudry published this article on Toward Freedom on 20 August, 2008.To read the article, please click here. ...

3/26/2009 3:16 am  Read More  


From Meals to Wheels: The Social and Ecological Catastrophe of Biofuels
A leaflet on the problems with agrofuels (unsustainable biofuels). GJEP-biofuels-comp.pdf ...

3/26/2009 3:07 am  Read More  


Joint Response to UNCBD INF/27 Paper on GE Trees
Below please find English, Spanish and French versions of the analysis document produced jointly by organizations involved in the effort to stop the release of genetically engineered trees through the UN Biodiversity Convention in Bonn, Germany 19-30 May 2008. Joint_analysis_GET_Bonn.pdf CBD joint analysis spanish.pdf CBD joint letter french_bonn.pdf ...

3/26/2009 2:39 pm  Read More  




News on our Programs

Chile Earthquake: Organizations Call for Solidarity
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Chile Earthquake: Locations and centers for help and support
3/03/2010 3:06 am

Press Releases

Latin America Protest Singer Performs 3/21 in Burlington
3/12/2010 11:12 am

Good Vibrations Announces New Donation Partner
3/10/2010 11:40 am

Publications

GJEP on What Really Happened in Copenhagen
2/17/2010 3:12 am

Annual Report 2008
1/18/2010 1:31 pm

     


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