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Week of protests planned against genetically engineered trees at industry conference

From the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, Global Justice Ecology Project, Earth First!, Dogwood Alliance, Global Forest Coalition and Biofuelwatch Asheville, NC- Local, national and international groups are… more →

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European banks and pension funds fuel land grabbing in Uganda — 1 comment

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 22 hours ago: May 21, 2013. Source: Friends of the Earth International Nathaniel Bagira is one of only a few in th … more →

Tags: Africa 2, False Solutions to Climate Change, forests, Forests and Climate Change, Illegal Logging, Indigenous peoples, industrial agriculture, Land Grabs, oil palm plantations

Week of protests planned against genetically engineered trees at industry conference

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 1 day ago: From the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, Global Justice Ecology Project, Earth First!, Dogwood Alliance, … more →

Tags: Actions - Protest, biodiversity, climate change, Commodification of Life, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, forests, Forests and Climate Change, GE Trees

UK: Drax coal misleading MPs and the public over biomass sustainability claims

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 3 days ago: May 21, 2013. Source: Biofuelwatch Drax coal plant. Photo: Bloomberg News New data obtained by Biofu … more →

Tags: climate change, Climate Justice, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, forests, Forests and Climate Change, green economy, Pollution

Despite historic conviction, genocide continues in Guatemala

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 5 days ago: By Leonor Hurtado, May 15, 2013. Source: Food First On May 10th, the Guatemalan Court of Justice con … more →

Tags: climate change, Indigenous peoples, industrial agriculture, Latin America & Caribbean, The Greed Economy and the Future of Forests, genocide, Guatemala, World Bank

Memo to WWF: Destroying rainforests and peatland for palm oil is not “sustainable” — 2 comments

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 1 week ago: By Chris Lang, May 14, 2013. Source: redd-monitor Image: Banksy WWF loves “sustainability”. With “su … more →

Tags: Forests and Climate Change, greenwashing, biodiversity, Redd, False Solutions to Climate Change, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, forests, déforestation, sustainability

"March Against Monsanto" planned for over thirty countries — 1 comment

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 1 week ago: Note: Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project and coordinator of the Ca … more →

Tags: Actions - Protest, Commodification of Life, Food sovereignty, Genetic engineering, industrial agriculture, The Greed Economy and the Future of Forests, Asheville, March Against Monsanto, Tree Biotech 2013

Why the ethanol boom means more E. coli burgers

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 2 weeks ago: Note: More damning evidence against cellulosic biofuels and industrial agriculture. -The GJEP Team B … more →

Tags: Food sovereignty, False Solutions to Climate Change, industrial agriculture, waste, ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, Disease, Food Production, Food Security

A dream of trees aglow at night

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 2 weeks ago: Note: If successful, this would be the world’s first environmental release of a Synthetic Biol … more →

Tags: Genetic engineering, green economy, synthetic biology, Commodification of Life, USDA, etc group, Synbio, kickstarter

Protecting carbon to destroy forests: Land enclosures and REDD+ — 1 comment

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 2 weeks ago: By Chris Lang, May 6, 2013. Source: redd-monitor A new report by Carbon Trade Watch takes a detailed … more →

Tags: biodiversity, Carbon Trading, Corporate globalization, False Solutions to Climate Change, forests, Forests and Climate Change, greenwashing, Indigenous peoples, industrial agriculture

Book review: Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 3 weeks ago: Note: Cynthia Hendel is a former holistic educator and long-time volunteer for Global Justice Ecolog … more →

Tags: climate change, Independent Media, World Bank, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, Environmentalism, poverty, Ron Nixon, Book Review, Industrialism

G8's biofuel use contributing to world hunger: new report

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 3 weeks ago: 29 April 2013.  Source: Action Aid International Amount of food crops burnt by richest nations as bi … more →

Tags: water, greenwashing, biodiversity, Food sovereignty, False Solutions to Climate Change, Land Grabs, green economy, industrial agriculture, biofuels

U.S. public overwhelmingly rejects genetically engineered trees — 3 comments

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 3 weeks ago: April 30, 2013. Source: Global Justice Ecology Project By a majority of almost 99.99% to .01%, the U … more →

Tags: Actions - Protest, biodiversity, False Solutions to Climate Change, forests, Forests and Climate Change, GE Trees, Genetic engineering, APHIS, ArborGen

Groups globally oppose plans to burn wood for electricity, citing impacts on forests, climate, communities — 1 comment

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 1 month ago: Note: Join Global Justice Ecology Project, the Dogwood Alliance, Earth First! and the STOP Genetical … more →

Tags: Actions - Protest, climate change, Forests and Climate Change, GE Trees, greenwashing, coal, Genetic engineering, Latin America & Caribbean, False Solutions to Climate Change

Massachusetts town passes moratorium on biomass and waste-to-energy facilities

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 1 month ago: By Lucas Willard, April 18, 2013. Source: Northeast Public Radio The town council of Greenfield, Mas … more →

Tags: climate change, Forests and Climate Change, Pollution, False Solutions to Climate Change, waste, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, Waste to Energy, Precautionary Principle, Massachusetts

Today: Hundreds of actions around the world to celebrate the International Day of Peasants’ Struggles — 1 comment

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 1 month ago: April 16 2013. Source: La Via Campesina Small-scale farmers and their allies are celebrating the Int … more →

Tags: Actions - Protest, Climate Justice, Food sovereignty, Corporate globalization, Land Grabs, industrial agriculture, Africa 2, Rights, Resilience, and Restoration, la via campesina

"Sons and daughters of the earth": Indigenous communities and land grabs in Guatemala — 2 comments

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 1 month ago: By Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, April 11 2013. Source: Upside Down World Photo: Upside Down World In the … more →

Tags: Actions - Protest, Indigenous peoples, climate change, Climate Justice, Latin America & Caribbean, Energy, Food sovereignty, False Solutions to Climate Change, Corporate globalization

Cellulosic ethanol: A bio-fool's errand? — 5 comments

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 1 month ago: Note: The push for cellulosic ethanol and other bio-based industrial feedstocks is driving land grab … more →

Tags: Forests and Climate Change, GE Trees, Genetic engineering, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, ArborGen, cellulosic ethanol, Valero, cellulosic biofuels

Colombian communities reclaim land and life from the paramilitary-business alliance — 1 comment

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 1 month ago: By James Bargent, April 4 2013. Source: Toward Freedom Palm oil plantation in Colombia. Photo: Towar … more →

Tags: biodiversity, Latin America & Caribbean, Food sovereignty, Land Grabs, Political Repression, industrial agriculture, The Greed Economy and the Future of Forests, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, Rights, Resilience, and Restoration

The fuel of the future: Environmental lunacy in Europe — 2 comments

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 1 month ago: Note: As Global Justice Ecology Project and its allies have been saying for years, burning trees to … more →

Tags: climate change, Forests and Climate Change, greenwashing, False Solutions to Climate Change, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, biomass, biofuelwatch, Drax, Biomass Incineration


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