[posted on Special Section of Journal of Political Ecology] In its Volume 24, the Journal of political ecology publishes a special section on Political ecologies of health and disease gather articles from Entitle and Ejolt projects’ team members Panagiota Kotsila, Creighton Connolly, Giacomo D’Alisa, Marco Armiero, Ilenia Lengo and Marcelo Firpo.   The section includes: Creighton Connolly, Panagiota Kotsila and Giacomo...

Nasce Toxic Bios: raccontare è resistere

Raccontare è resistere Nasce Toxic Bios, il progetto che mira a raccontare le storie “tossiche” di chi ha subito ingiustizie ambientali e di chi le combatte, un progetto sostenuto dall’Università di Stoccolma e promosso da Marco Armiero e Ilenia Iengo, due ricercatori che si occupano di conflitti ecologici e giustizia ambientale. Questo progetto intende il racconto delle ingiustizie ambientali subite come una forma di resistenza: se è...

[posted by Laura Fano Morrissey on TheJournal.ie, March 11, 2017] Fear of an incinerator in the city of Dublin is not irrational – and we need to demand better controls and monitoring before it begins to burn. Life goes on as normal in Sandymount, Dublin, where the sea front bustles with life, people jogging, children running around on the beach when the tide is out. Such a beautiful spectacle of nature, one you would hardly find in...

[posted by Damian Carrington and Jelmer Mommers on The Guardian, February 28, 2017] Public information film unseen for years shows Shell had clear grasp of global warming 26 years ago but has not acted accordingly since, say critics. The oil giant Shell issued a stark warning of the catastrophic risks of climate change more than a quarter of century ago in a prescient 1991 film that has been rediscovered. However, since then the...

[posted on Amnesty International, November 28, 2016] Palm Oil: Global brands profiting from child and forced labor. Unilever, Nestlé, Proctor & Gamble among nine household names contributing to labor abuse. The world’s most popular food and household companies are selling food, cosmetics and other everyday staples containing palm oil tainted by shocking human rights abuses in Indonesia, with children as young as eight working in...

[posted on Union of Concerned Scientists] Found in everything from shampoo to donuts, palm oil is now the most common vegetable oil in the world—and also one of the world’s leading deforestation drivers. Palm oil is extracted from the fruit of the oil palm tree, Elaeis guineensis, which thrives in humid climates. The large majority of palm oil production occurs in just two countries, Malaysia and Indonesia, where huge swaths of...