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After Bali Climate Talks: Toward a People’s Agenda for Climate Justice

Brian Tokar December 18, 2007 Brian Tokar

Bali Protest Photo: Orin Langelle/GJEP

With all the fanfare that usually accompanies such gatherings, delegates to the recent UN climate talks on the Indonesian island of Bali returned to their home countries declaring victory. Despite the continued obstructionism of the US delegation, the negotiators reached a mild consensus for continued negotiations on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, and at the very last moment were able to cajole and pressure the US to sign on.

Iraq and Climate Change

Michael T. Klare December 11, 2007 Michael T. Klare

Michael Klare

When our grandchildren and more distant descendants assemble in such classrooms as may be available and ask their teachers, "Why did our ancestors not take effective action to prevent the catastrophic effects of climate change?" one of the answers will surely be, "The war in Iraq."

As the World Burns: Liberating Responses to Global Warming

Toward Freedom October 17, 2007 Toward Freedom

Tuesday, October 23rd, 7pm at Burlington College
95 North Ave, Burlington, Vermont

Join us as we take a fresh look at the limits of the current global warming debate and how to move beyond them. Topics will include the human costs of the expanding biofuels industry, the limits of "market-based" solutions to global warming, tools for redefining the "good life," and ways to create a culture of hope.

Panelists will critique Al Gore’s limited approach to citizen/corporate action and discuss experiences on the ground in Latin America’s biofuels craze.

Brian Tokar is a long time Vermont author and activist, and a faculty member at the Institute for Social Ecology, based in Plainfield. read more

Burning Earth: Linking Wildfires to Global Warming

Al Huebner October 8, 2007 Al Huebner

As the earth warms, a growing number of researchers are investigating the far-reaching consequences of the increasing average temperature. One of these consequences is the effect on wildfires.

Glacial Acceleration: A Sea of Troubles

Paul Brown October 8, 2007 Paul Brown

It is hard to shock journalists and at the same time leave them in awe of the power of nature. A group returning from a helicopter trip flying over, then landing on, the Greenland ice cap at the time of maximum ice melt last month were shaken. One shrugged and said: "It is too late already."

Arctic Oil and the Law of the Seize

Rene Wadlow August 29, 2007 Rene Wadlow

There is a touch of the 19th century scramble to divide Africa among European colonial powers in Russia's decision to drop a capsule containing a Russian flag on the Arctic sea floor not far from the North Pole on August 2nd. In preparation for the 1885 Berlin Conference which was to draw the boundaries of the African colonies, there was a mad rush to place national flags on all the commercial outposts so that France, England, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Portugal could claim prior possession of the area.