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Keep calm and continue to consume and everything will turn out okay.

Two Views of Our Future

29 June, 2012

No previous civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural supports. Nor will ours. Yet economists look at the future through a different lens. Relying heavily on economic data to measure progress, they see the near 10-fold growth in … Continue reading

Conservatives Cannot Be Green

WANTED! Green policy clarity

26 June, 2012

Earlier this month saw the publication of a damning report which highlighted the need for clearness and simplicity in UK government policy to give companies more confidence when investing in Green technologies, particularly in the electricity market. The report from … Continue reading

The #EndFossilFuelSubsidies hashtag is seen here being projected at the Marble Arch in London. Photo: Stephen Brown

Campaign to end fossil fuel subsidies tops Twitter ahead of Rio+20

19 June, 2012

And so the 24-hour Twitterstorm against fossil fuel subsidies is over. And with an amazing rate of 3+ tweets per second, the storm certainly didn’t go unnoticed. The campaign which was launched yesterday by 350.org, Avaaz, Greenpeace, and other environmental … Continue reading

Members of Avaaz and 350 unfurl a giant trillion dollar bill at iconic Copacabana beach. They're asking world leaders at the Rio+20 Summit to end the trillion dollars governments hand out in fossil fuel subsidies each year and turn this money green instead.

Massive Twitterstorm demanding an end to fossil fuel subsidies underway

18 June, 2012

A 24-hour “storm” against fossil fuel subsidies was launched today by 350.org, Avaaz, Greenpeace, and other environmental organizations on the popular social network site Twitter. The event is expected to involve hundreds of thousands of people from around the world … Continue reading

Stephen Harper gives a thumbs-up for climate killing tar sands and environmental destruction

Canada’s conservative government is gutting environment protection

7 June, 2012

Although Canada’s Conservative Party won only 40% of the popular vote in the last election, it captured an absolute majority of the seats in the House of Commons. This gives Prime Minister Stephen Harper the ability to pass any legislation … Continue reading

Jean-Luc Mélenchon

French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon on ecology and nuclear energy

11 April, 2012

Socialist Jean-Luc Mélenchon has emerged as the “third man” in the French presidential race, placing him ahead of right-wing extremist Marine Le Pen and just behind conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy and liberal/social democrat François Hollande.

Ted Baillieu is the leader of the new ultra-conservative and pro-coal, anti-environment government of Victoria, Australia.

High polluting Victoria, Australia, hell-bent on increasing greenhouse gas pollution

11 April, 2012

The State of Victoria, Australia, is the worst polluting state in Australia which in turn is one of the worst countries in the world for annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. However the new ultra-conservative government of Victoria is … Continue reading

Julia Gillard

Australian PM Julia Gillard’s appalling record of climate change inaction

8 March, 2012

Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. Pro-coal, pro-gas Australian PM Julia Gillard has an appalling record of climate change inaction falsely dressed up as the opposite. The biggest and most outrageous untruth of … Continue reading

Lucy Lawless protesting Shell’s planned exploration for oil in the Arctic.

Actress Lucy Lawless and Greenpeace blocks Shell arctic driller

27 February, 2012

Earlier this week a group of Greenpeace activists, including the actress Lucy Lawless, scaled an oil drill ship that was due to travel to the Arctic. After spending over 76 hours onboard the ship, Lucy Lawless and the five other … Continue reading

RIO+20

Are the Rio+20 goals too green-as-usual?

20 February, 2012

Great piece by the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) Switchboard blog on efforts afoot in Latin America to step up on green in anticipation of Rio+20, which will be held here in the region this June. The goals and standards … Continue reading

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