Apr 14, 2020 | COVID Ties to Ecological Destruction, COVID: All Posts, Featured, Social Media News
Photo: Church/GJEP Why We Shouldn’t Push for a Closure of China’s ‘Wet Markets’ Earth Island Journal 13 April 2020 Latoya Abulu The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and I’m off to a so-called “wet market” in Shanghai. Now that extensive measures during what the...
Jul 12, 2018 | Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Featured, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News
Some U.S. nonprofits are praising China’s anti-pollution efforts. AP Photo/Andy Wong James A. Holtkamp, University of Utah Two congressional committees led by prominent Republicans are looking into whether some U.S. environmental groups are acting on behalf of foreign...
Dec 19, 2017 | all other, Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Deforestation, Featured, Food Sovereignty, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Paraguay, Social Media News
15 Dec, Buenos Aires: The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [1] celebrated the failure of two key trade negotiations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and EU-Mercosur free trade agreement, to reach a successful conclusion during negotiations in Argentina [2]. Both were...
Nov 14, 2017 | Climate Justice, Concerned Photography, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Protests & Resistance, REDD, Social Media News, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
This is an example of conservation gone wrong. Very, very wrong. Conservation strategies that involve forced displacement of rural, land-based and Indigenous communities are nothing new and stem from a twisted worldview in which humans and nature have nothing in...
Aug 25, 2016 | Featured, Social Media News
Reuters recently reported that a “U.S. national security panel has cleared ChemChina’s $43 billion takeover of Swiss pesticides and seeds group Syngenta (SYNN.S), the companies said, boosting chances that the largest foreign acquisition ever by a Chinese...
