Jun 26, 2021 | False Solutions, Featured, Indigenous Peoples, Social Media News
Note: Thirty years ago, in 1991, GJEP Co-founders Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle joined the Vermont coalition effort to stop the megadam-age caused by Hydro Quebec’s plans to dam up all of the major rivers running into James Bay. This included a 1993...
Jun 11, 2021 | Bioeconomy, Featured, Social Media News
Exposé of “net-zero” pledges uncovers grossly insufficient plans and the strategies polluting industries have used to lock in the ineffective schemes Global Forest Coalition 9 June 2021 In the midst of virtual discussions of the UN climate treaty, a new report shines...
Jun 10, 2021 | Earth Watch, False Solutions, Featured, Social Media News, Uncategorized
Anne Petermann is the Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project. She has been working on issues related to protecting forests and defending the rights of Indigenous peoples since 1990 and co-founded the first global campaign against genetically engineered...
Jun 9, 2021 | Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Featured, Social Media News
Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod · Earth Minute: Genetically Modified Salmon 2021 The world’s first genetically modified animal has been harvested by the biotech company Aquabounty at their aquaculture farm in Indiana. Aquabounty’s genetically modified Atlantic...
Jun 8, 2021 | Featured, Quarterly Updates, Social Media News
Global Justice Ecology Project June Update Please support GJEP’s work to protect forests, advance climate justice & build alliances for systemic change! ¡Aziz Choudry Presente! We at GJEP got the shocking news that our close friend and comrade Aziz Choudry, a...
Jun 7, 2021 | Brazil, Deforestation, Featured, Social Media News
Agribusiness’s new weapon — fire: how peoples and communities are being driven out of their own land GRAIN 18 May 2021 Over the past two years, the agribusiness industry in Brazil has been setting forests alight. This practice has led to fires ravaging ecosystems that...