Environment
Naomi Klein opens Kilmaforum09 in Copenhagen, the People’s Climate summit
Naomi Klein was in fine form as she opened the Klimaforum09 counter-conference in Copenhagen Monday night 7/12. She gave a keynote opening speech to open the summit of ecological NGO?s that bills itself as The People?s Climate Summit.
Callout from Copenhagen
Hello from Denmark, Decided to come freeze my little tush off in Copenhagen for eleven days for global warming (COP-15, look it up). Sounds like fun? Well, sort of! Anyway I’m writing articles for a few people here and I […]
Argentina versus el Banco Mundial: ¿Juego limpio o partido arreglado?
Programa de las Américas Informe especial Argentina versus el Banco Mundial: ¿Juego limpio o partido arreglado? Tony Phillips 18 de junio de 2008 Versión original: Argentina Versus the World Bank: Fair Play or Fixed Fight?Traducción por: Annette Ramos Programa de […]
Climate Change Cause and Effect, An Americas Perspective
Americas Program Special ReportClimate Change Cause and Effect, An Americas PerspectiveTony Phillips | December 20, 2007 Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)(formerly) americas.irc-online.org “We, the human race, have substantially altered the earth’s atmosphere. In 2005, the concentration of carbon […]
Energy; Southern Cone
Here in the cone of South America as in many parts of the world, one of the major issues is energy. What with the Andes and all, there are plenty of hydroelectric plants and underground thermal energy but the tricky […]
People in Greenhouses
Power is money, money power. Global power is measured in barrels of crude oil or BTU’s of natural gas; money, as we are carefully trained to believe, in US dollars. The direct correlation is the pricing of the World’s energy […]