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How the ‘green economy’ exacerbates deforestation in Brazil

Blog 'How the ‘green economy’ exacerbates deforestation in Brazil' by World Rainforest Movement. Photo by Pedro Henrique Santos on Unsplash.

In the ‘green economy,’ the interests of corporations, governments and the conservation industry intersect. All of these entities, in one way or another, profit from the destruction of forests and the dispossession of communities. The REDD mechanism (Reducing Emissions from […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environment, Indigenous worldview Tagged With: climate change, corporate control, corporations, free trade, industrial agriculture, South

Catch 22: Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Means Paying Polluters

Blog Catch 22: phasing out fossil fuels means paying polluters by Kyla Tienhaara. Photo by Daniel Moqvist on Unsplash.

US$20 billion: That’s how much American investors think Canadian taxpayers should fork over to compensate them for their failed bid to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Québec. That’s almost a fifth of the province’s total budget for […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Corporate power, Energy, Free Trade and Globalization Tagged With: climate change, corporate control, corporations, free trade, trade agreements

Rethinking Technology and the Good Society

Blog Rethinking Technology and the Good Society by L.M. Sacasas

Despite suffering from debilitating headaches and generally poor health, Weil completed her work during a remarkable burst of activity. She died later that year at the age of 34. The report was published in 1949. The first English translation appeared […]

Filed Under: Community, Consumerism, Technology Tagged With: community, consumerism, corporations, democracy, happiness, livelihoods, technology, well-being

Why we must abolish the Energy Charter Treaty

Greta Thunberg made international headlines this week when she and other climate activists were briefly detained by police at a protest against the expansion of a coal mine in Germany. Thunberg was among the thousands of protesters who arrived to […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Free Trade and Globalization Tagged With: climate change, corporate control, corporations, globalization, pollution, renewable energy, trade agreements

Chak Chok: a campaign against junk food

'Chak Chok- a campaign against junk food' by Kunzang Deachen and Alex Jensen - Local Futures

Transnational corporations have been spectacularly successful in their profit-driven quest to hook the world on junk food. The global sale of packaged foods swelled to US$2.8 trillion by 2020, and is estimated to balloon to $3.4 trillion by 2027. Soda […]

Filed Under: Community, Food and Farming, Health, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, community, consumerism, corporations, farming, global food, health, pollution

Getting out of the food-energy-climate crisis

Getting out of the food-energy-climate crisis by GRAIN

On 11 October 2022, the International Monetary Fund’s head of research, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, warned that today’s high energy prices were not going away any time soon. The “energy crisis”, he cautioned, “is not a transitory shock”. The same could be […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Corporate power, Energy, Food and Farming Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, corporate control, corporations, farming, globalization, health, industrial agriculture, local food

How the FCC shields cellphone companies from safety concerns

Blog How the FCC Shields Cellphone Companies from Safety Concerns by ProPublica and Peter Elkin - Local Futures

The health complaints started rolling in within weeks of the activation of a new cellphone tower in August 2020 in Pittsfield, an old factory town in Massachusetts’ Berkshire Mountains. Seventeen residents reported headaches, dizziness, insomnia or confusion. A few children […]

Filed Under: Corporate power, Health, Technology Tagged With: corporate control, corporations, health, technology

An agribusiness greenwashing glossary

Blog An agribusiness greenwashing glossary by GRAIN 2

The global food system is broken. It is responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and it is the leading driver behind the collapse of the world’s biodiversity. Meanwhile, 1 in 10 people around the world go to […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Corporate power, Food and Farming, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, corporations, economics, farming, global food, industrial agriculture, livelihoods, South

Of George Monbiot, mathematical modernism and the case for agrarian localism

Blog Of George Monbiot, mathematical modernism and the case for agrarian localism

When you read a book with which you profoundly disagree, I guess it’s usually best just to shrug, put it back on the shelf and get on with your work. The hatchet job review is a popular but ignoble genre. […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Local food, Technology Tagged With: agriculture, corporations, farming, global food, industrial agriculture, livelihoods, local food, technology

The Gospel of Progress

Blog The gospel of progress by Charles Eisenstein

Ever since the archaic divergence of humanity from other hominids, our systems of tools and symbols have developed at an accelerating pace. We depend less and less on the physical capacities of our bodies. We operate more and more in […]

Filed Under: Health, Nature, Technology Tagged With: corporate control, corporations, health, metaverse, nature, technology, transhumanism

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