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Women Farmers Feed the World
Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:53
In West Africa, women’s resistance to the new Green Revolution shows that the question of agricultural sustainability is also a question of equality.
If all seven billion people had wheels
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:03
An opinion piece that appeared in the New York Times, with the provocative title If All Chinese Had Wheels, argued that “if the level of industrialization in China could be increased to the point that each Chinese family possessed an automobile and other amenities of industrial society, the effect on China and the entire world would be catastrophic”.
Supermarket challenges toilet paper maker to disprove deforestation allegations
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:46
A major New Zealand supermarket chain has asked Cottonsoft to prove its environmental credentials after testing by WWF and Greenpeace revealed the toilet paper maker was using mixed tropical hardwoods sourced from Indonesia's rainforests in its tissue. reports The Dominion Post.
Life Without Electricity
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:36
It is not all that long ago when we began using so many electrical appliances in everyday life. Japan’s first “pulsator-type” washing machine, a prototype of current models, reached the market in 1953. Its popularity exploded as it was a convenient product that considerably reduced household work loads. Full-scale television broadcasting also started in 1953. This year set a precedent for the expanding use of various home appliances; so much so that it was later referred to as “year one of electrification”.
Environmental Expose: Eliminating loopholes in international climate-change policy
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 13:15
The United Nations Conference of the Parties’ 17th gathering (COP17) has taken place in Durban, South Africa. As with previous events in Bali, Copenhagen and Cancún, the mainstream media (and even certain commentators in Resurgence) will bemoan the slow pace of progress in light of the severity of the crises we face. But this, to borrow George Bush’s immortal utterance, is to “misunderestimate” the task in hand. Policies that were conceived to be ‘climate positive’, such as carbon trading and carbon offsets, have been developed in such a way they exacerbate climate change, and much of the perceived delay is due to environmental NGOs and Indigenous peoples working hard to expose the injustices.
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