ENVIRONMENT These are articles previously published by Toward Freedom related to this category.
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo hasn't delivered on promises to the farmers who brought him to power, while transgenic soy farms expand.
During the recent climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, thousands of members of social movements held an alternative gathering outside the negotiations. On the inside, many of their views were represented by Pablo Solon, the chief UN negotiator for Bolivia in the talks.
This is an excerpt of Vandana Shiva speaking about ‘food and seed sovereignty’ at the International Meeting on Resisting Hegemony held 2-5 August 2010 in Penang, Malaysia.
As campaign season heats up in my home state of Vermont, environmentally conscious voters have been remarking on the similarity between media ads on local TV by Entergy, owner of the radiation-leaking Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, and BP, responsible for the worst environmental catastrophe in American history.
The latest global economic slump underlines our reliance on growth. What happens when the economy stumbles?
When politicians refer to natural gas as a "clean" alternative to oil and coal, they seldom mention a commonly used technique called horizontal hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking.
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