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The Need for Clear Connections at the People’s Climate March
Global Justice Ecology Project Executive Director Anne Petermann posted this entry at Daily Kos yesterday regarding the September 21 Climate March and associated events in New York City. In this update from her previous piece about the march, Petermann points out that many … Continue reading
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Filed under Actions / Protest, Bioenergy / Agrofuels, Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Corporate Globalization, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, Fracking, Green Economy, Industrial agriculture, Media, Posts from Anne Petermann, Uncategorized
Latin America: Protests target Monsanto, Chevron
May 26, 2014. Source: WW4 Report Latin American activists joined thousands of environmentalists and farmers around the world in an international protest May 24 against genetically modified (GM) crops and Monsanto, the Missouri-based multinational that dominates the transgenic seed industry. This … Continue reading
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Filed under Actions / Protest, Corporate Globalization, Food Sovereignty, Latin America-Caribbean
2013 Top ten articles on Climate Connections
Note: Thanks to our readers for another excellent year! Below are the top 10 Climate-Connections blog posts from 2013. Over the course of the year we saw nearly a quarter of a million viewers from 206 countries. Thanks for being … Continue reading
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Filed under Climate Change, Climate Justice
Obama’s State of the Union: fantasy, fact, fiction or all of the above?
by Anne Petermann, Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project During Obama’s State of the Union address last night the presence of the star of the reality TV show Duck Dynasty might have been the most real part of a very … Continue reading
That was the year – Unlucky 13
January 7, 2014. Source: ETC Group Unlucky 13: Our 2012 year-end review, “193 Shades of Gray,” stumbled into the surreal, post-Rio+20 “Hunger Games” as FAO admitted that it has been underestimating the number of hungry people and overestimating future food requirements … Continue reading
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Filed under Biodiversity, Bioenergy / Agrofuels, Climate Change, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, Food Sovereignty, Genetic Engineering, Land Grabs, Rio+20, Synthetic Biology, Warsaw/COP-19, World Bank
KPFK Sojourner Truth Earth Watch: Massive flooding damage to oil and gas infrastructure causes public health hazard
September 19, 2013. A major health disaster faces Colorado made worse from overturned tanks storing fracking chemicals mixed in with flood waters. Merrily Mazza of East Boulder County United discusses the dangers posed by leaking tanks and pipelines in Weld … Continue reading
Filed under Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, Hydrofracking, Oil, Pollution, Waste, Water
Obama’s green agenda seen through Vermont eyes
Note: Will Bennington, featured in the article below, is Development and Campaigns Associate with Global Justice Ecology Project’s Vermont office. He is also a volunteer organizer with Rising Tide Vermont. Bennington has not listened to Obama’s speech, and doesn’t plan to. … Continue reading
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Filed under Climate Change, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, Green Economy, Greenwashing, Hydrofracking, Nuclear power, Oil, Pollution, REDD, Tar Sands
Obama’s plan for the climate: Greenwash our way into oblivion
By Anne Petermann, Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project At 1:45 today, President Obama announced his new Climate Action Plan in a nationally televised speech. He described the emerging climate crisis and its impacts–both past, present and future, while be … Continue reading
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Filed under Climate Change, Climate Justice, Copenhagen/COP-15, Corporate Globalization, False Solutions to Climate Change, Greenwashing, Oil, Pollution, Posts from Anne Petermann, UNFCCC
