Nov 16, 2018 | Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Featured, Food Sovereignty, Forests, Rainforest, Social Media News
This week’s Earth Watch guest is Jeff Conant of Friends of the Earth (FOA). Conant and Sojourner Truth host Margaret Prescod discuss the greenwashing of the palm oil industry. Friends of the Earth and World Rainforest Movement co-authored this release...
Nov 9, 2018 | Bioeconomy, Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, False Solutions, Featured, Forests, Honduras, Latin America, Social Media News, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
This week’s Earth Watch guest on the Sojourner Truth Radio Show was Dr. Rachel Smolker with Biofuelwatch, who discussed this week’s Bioeconomy Day of Action. Smolker is a co-director of Biofuelwatch, and an organizer with Energy Justice Network. She has...
Jun 14, 2018 | Bioenergy, Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Deforestation, Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, False Solutions, Forests, Social Media News
This week, Global Justice Ecology Project executive director Anne Petermann’s regular Earth Minute segment on the Sojourner Truth radio show focused on an open letter sent from 89 organizations from 34 countries to end plans promoting biofuels and carbon offsets as a...
Mar 8, 2018 | Climate Justice, Featured, Forests, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
See more on women and plantations in the WRM Bulletin. On 8 March, International Women’s Day, hundreds of organizations and individuals demand an end to the violence against women living in and around large-scale oil palm plantations expansion. A petition has been...
Oct 11, 2017 | Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Deforestation, Featured, Food Sovereignty, Forests, Rainforest, Social Media News
An in-depth report released by Biofuelwatch last week shows that feedstocks (raw materials used to produce biofuel) other than palm oil cannot be converted to aviation fuels on a large scale either because of technical obstacles, or for economic reasons. Mary Louise...
