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Green activists face grave threat as death toll doubles in a decade

By Fred Pearce, February 21, 2013 The activist Sombath Somphone disappeared in Vientiane in December 2011. Photo: Somphone Family/AFP/Getty Images Where is Sombath Somphone? With every day that passes… more →

Climate Connections

Green activists face grave threat as death toll doubles in a decade — 1 comment

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 3 months ago: By Fred Pearce, February 21, 2013 The activist Sombath Somphone disappeared in Vientiane in December … more →

Tags: Actions - Protest, climate change, Illegal Logging, Latin America & Caribbean, Political Repression, AHOMAR, Almir Nogueira de Amorim, Assassinations, Brazil

Strike four in climate change: A "Climate Space" to rethink analysis and strategies

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 3 months ago: Note:  While the post below is a few months old, Global Justice Ecology Project find’s former … more →

Tags: Carbon Trading, climate change, Climate Justice, Copenhagen/COP-15, Doha/COP-18, Durban/COP-17, False Solutions to Climate Change, Redd, Rights, Resilience, and Restoration

'The last bit of paradise': Giant dam threatens Brazilian rainforest — 1 comment

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 3 months ago: By Jonathan Stock, February 1, 2013.  Source: Spiegel Online.  Full photo gallery here 300 Indigenou … more →

Tags: Actions - Protest, Indigenous peoples, Forests and Climate Change, water, Latin America & Caribbean, False Solutions to Climate Change, World Bank, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, Hydroelectric dams

2012 Top ten articles on Climate Connections

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 4 months ago: Note: The following are the top ten articles from Climate Connections from 2012, based on the number … more →

Tags: Actions - Protest, Indigenous peoples, climate change, Posts from Anne Petermann, Tar Sands, greenwashing, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, green economy

Rio Earth Summit: tragedy, farce, and distraction — 2 comments

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 8 months ago: By Anne Petermann, September 2012.  Source: Z Magazine As I flew to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 1 … more →

Tags: climate change, Posts from Anne Petermann, greenwashing, Redd, False Solutions to Climate Change, Corporate globalization, Land Grabs, green economy, Politics

The dark side of the “green economy” — 1 comment

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 9 months ago: Note: Jeff traveled to Rio+20 as Global Justice Ecology Project’s Communications Director. … more →

Tags: climate change, Posts from Jeff Conant, False Solutions to Climate Change, green economy, Commodification of Life, People's Summit, green economy, Rio 20, Privatization of Nature

The great impostors — 1 comment

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 9 months ago: In the name of saving the natural world, governments are privatising it. By George Monbiot, August 7 … more →

Tags: greenwashing, biodiversity, Corporate globalization, Land Grabs, green economy, Commodification of Life, payment for environmental services, Privatization of Nature, George Monbiot

La Via Campesina at Rio+20: The people of the world say "No to the Green Economy" — 1 comment

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 10 months ago: For a week throughout the People’s Summit, Via Campesina, the global movement of peasant farme … more →

Tags: climate change, Latin America & Caribbean, Food sovereignty, Corporate globalization, Land Grabs, green economy, Solutions, Commodification of Life, Rights, Resilience, and Restoration

Three responses to Bill McKibben’s new article, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" — 24 comments

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 10 months ago: The following three pieces, by Anne Petermann, Dr. Rachel Smolker, and Keith Brunner were written in … more →

Tags: Actions - Protest, climate change, greenwashing, Bioenergy / Agrofuels, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, Corporate globalization, Land Grabs, green economy

Brazil: Xavante territorial rights affirmed following ranchers' uprising — 1 comment

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 10 months ago: Note: Will there ever be justice for the Indigenous Peoples of the Brazilian Amazon?  Soy, cattle, i … more →

Tags: Indigenous peoples, Climate Justice, Latin America & Caribbean, Land Grabs, green economy, Political Repression, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, rainforest

O relato de uma aprendiza à ativista na Cúpula dos Povos — 2 comments

Tulio Kengi Malaspina wrote 10 months ago: O que leva uma pessoa a agir, mesmo que contra o fluxo comum? Estava eu sentada na mureta da orla da … more →

Tags: Sociedade, Rio+20, Lixo, atitude, Cidadanía, Ativismo, poeme-se

Climate: Record Heat, Policy Adrift

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 10 months ago: From the Institute for Public Accuracy: July 11, 2012 Anne Petermann is executive director of the Gl … more →

Tags: climate change, Forests and Climate Change, GE Trees, Bioenergy / Agrofuels, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, The Greed Economy and the Future of Forests, GMO trees, gm trees

From culprits to saviors: The triumph of green capital at the Rio+20 — 2 comments

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 10 months ago: by Herbert Docena, University of California, Berkeley, cross-posted from Global Dialogue NOTE: Among … more →

Tags: climate change, greenwashing, Corporate globalization, green economy, Politics, Commodification of Life, Green Capitalism, Rio+20 Outcomes

No strategy for civilisation in crisis

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 10 months ago: Analysis by Mario Osava, cross-posted from Other News RIO DE JANEIRO,(IPS) - The Second United Natio … more →

Tags: climate change, greenwashing, Corporate globalization, green economy, UN Conference on Human Settlements

After Rio+20, Brazil's cemetery of mangroves and fisherfolk — 2 comments

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 10 months ago: Cross-Posted from The Africa Report  By Nnimmo Bassey, 4 July 2012 19:44 Two visits outside the hear … more →

Tags: Indigenous peoples, climate change, water, Pollution, Corporate globalization, green economy, Political Repression, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, murder

Green businesses set to lead creation of Rio's+20 "Future We Want” (yea, right...)

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 10 months ago: Note: As logic tells us, Capitalism will not solve problems caused by Capitalism; the economic syste … more →

Tags: Forests and Climate Change, greenwashing, Bioenergy / Agrofuels, biodiversity, False Solutions to Climate Change, Corporate globalization, Land Grabs, green economy, Commodification of Life

Empresa faz pesquisa com a sociedade brasileira para entender o conhecimento sobre a Rio+20

Tulio Kengi Malaspina wrote 11 months ago: Estudo feito pela Hello Research sobre a o conhecimento da sociedade sobre a Rio+20. … more →

Tags: Sociedade, Rio+20, Pesquisa, Informação, dados, ????Conhecimento????, entendimento

Action Alert: Denounce the Murder of Fishermen/Activists in Rio — 3 comments

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 11 months ago: Repudiation on the murder of AHOMAR fishermen Please send your signatures to: gabriel strautman The … more →

Tags: Actions - Protest, climate change, Latin America & Caribbean, Corporate globalization, green economy, Political Repression, BREAKING NEWS from Rio+20, People's Summit, activists

Rio+20 Breaking News: Activists who spoke at the Peoples’ Summit killed — 33 comments

Global Justice Ecology Project wrote 11 months ago: Cross-Posted from Front Line Defenders, June 28th, 2012 See Action Alert in Next Blog Post João Luiz … more →

Tags: green economy, Political Repression, Ending the Era of Extreme Energy, BREAKING NEWS from Rio+20, Rio+20, Fishermen, murdered activists...??


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