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• Obama sends US troops to Uganda to help combat the LRA – but is oil the true reason?
  24 Oct 2011 in Business & Politics

  Oil have been found in the underground below Lake Albert on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Western companies are working with the Ugandan government to get development under way but a myriad of issues …

• Denmark’s new government promises far reaching green policies
  20 Sep 2011 in Business & Politics

  On Thursday the 15th of September 2011 the Danish right wing government of the past decade lost its slim majority. The former opposition is currently negotiating the alliance of a new government which looks like it will be more green …

• Wangari Maathai warns about resource conflicts: “If the rivers stop flowing, people will fight”
  11 Jul 2011 in Green Quote

  Wednesday the 6th of July 2011 Wangari Maathai received a honorary doctorate at Copenhagen University and spoke about her work with the Green Belt movement, the Taking Roots movie and more. Watch her speech, I recorded it for you. [15:39] …

• Climate Wars by Gwynne Dyer
  17 Jan 2011 in Business & Politics

  With a title like Climate Wars this book looks “alarmist” even to someone sick and tired of being called just that. But actually, it is far less dramatic than the action paced science fiction that may come to mind. Written …

• The dangerous link between climate and conflict
  05 Dec 2010 in Global Warming

  Rebecca Sargent at a piece of conflict has been reading CLIMATE CHANGE, CONFLICT AND FRAGILITY – Understanding the linkages, shaping effective responses (pdf), a report by Dan Smith and Janani Vivekananda of International Alert (It’s from November 2009 and a …

• Moscow Arctic Forum promises peaceful exploitation, silent on risks
  17 Oct 2010 in Business & Politics

  During the end of September the “Arctic nations” – Canada, Russia, Norway, the United States and Denmark – met in Moscow to agree on territorial claims. (Strangely, I didn’t notice any coverage at all in Danish media – while even …

• Wolfgang Sachs on sustainable development vs economic growth
  10 Aug 2010 in Business & Politics

  German scholar Wolfgang Sachs talked about sustainable development versus economic growth in Copenhagen on invitation by The Ecological Council, The European Environment Agency and the Danish newspaper Information. Wolfgang Sachs is a former professor, former chairman of Greenpeace Germany, author …

• Unknown People in Masks and Police Attack Environmentalists in Russia
  28 Jul 2010 in Business & Politics

  As seen on Global Voices: Russia: Unknown People in Masks and Police Attack Environmentalists From 20 to 40 young people in white masks attacked the camp of the defenders of the Khimki forest park [RUS], Igor Podgorny [RUS] and Novaya …

• Danish COP15 host Connie Hedegaard appointed EU Commissioner for the Climate
  05 Dec 2009 in Copenhagen 2009

  Now, this is the Google Search of the Day! 49 years old Connie Hedegaard, member of the Danish Conservative People’s Party and minister for Climate and Energy has been appointed European Commissioner for the Climate. The EU didn’t have a …

• A Drop of Life: Short film about water conflict
  30 Jun 2009 in Culture & Celebrity

  “As I became aware of the mounting global water crisis, I realized that it represented a clash of cultures – between a culture that values water as a shared sacred source of all life and a corporate culture that regards …