Category Archives: False Solutions to Climate Change
Geoengineering experiment cancelled due to perceived conflict of interest
Two scientists involved in Spice project to simulate the cooling effect of volcanoes had submitted patents for similar technology. . By Erin Hale, cross posted from The Guardian, Wednesday 16 May 2012 . A controversial geoengineering experiment to simulate the cooling effect of volcanoes has … Continue reading
EU is investing in toxic waste projects in developing world, GAIA claims
Cross-posted from the Guardian UK. The EU is threatening waste-pickers’ livelihoods and backing projects that may actually increase emissions, says report The EU’s clean development mechanism (CDM) is supporting
Rio+20: Guide Document on Convergence Plenary and People’s Assembly
Note: Here is a statement from the organizers of the alternative Peoples’ Summit that will occur in Rio around the time of the official UN Rio+20 (corporate sell-out) Summit. People from around the world are coming together to talk about … Continue reading
Radio show: False Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Global Justice Ecology Project Communications Director Jeff Conant spoke about “false solutions to the climate crisis” yesterday on KPFA’s show Your Own Health and Fitness. Listen to the show here.
Will you pay as new reactors jump $900 million in three months?
By Harvey Wasserman May 15, 2012 – The projected price for Georgia’s Vogtle Double Reactor Project has jumped at least $900 million in just three months….and that’s just for starters. Will you pay for it? The future of new atomic … Continue reading
Indonesia: Destroying Tripa peat swamp forest is “an act of criminal vandalism”
By Chris Lang, 15th May 2012 Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor “Now is the time for action not words here in Tripa. To destroy one of the last great areas of peat swamp forest in Sumatra is an act of criminal vandalism.” … Continue reading
No more evictions! Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala in defense of nature, lands and territories.
Note: Evictions of community farmers from UC Berkeley land, peasants thrown off of their land all over the world for agrofuel feedstock production, deforestation, forest “protection,” large-scale hydroelectric projects, etc. It’s time for the end of neoliberalism, private property and … Continue reading
NEW REPORT REVEALS DRIVERS OF UK BIOMASS EXPANSION AS BRAZILIAN SUZANO PAPEL E CELULOSE GAIN APPROVAL FOR LARGEST GM TREE PLANTATION TRIAL
Cross-Posted from Carbon Trade Watch London/Barcelona 14 May 2012: Earlier this month Brazilian pulp and paper giant Suzano Papel e Celulose gained approval for the world’s most advanced trial of genetically modified (GM) trees to meet the global demands of … Continue reading
How Your College Is Selling Out to Big Ag
NOTE: Here at Climate Connections, we’ve been participating in, and closely following the Occupy the Farm action, where local community activists are working to tak We’ve written several pieces about it, here and here. One of the frontlines of food sovereignty … Continue reading
Richard Sandor: Carbon trading, holy cows and sacred groves
By Chris Lang, 10th May 2012 Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor Richard Sandor has a new book out. He’ll tell you that markets are thesolution before he hears the problem. Pollution? Climate change? Water shortages? Species extinction? Just create a new market and … Continue reading
