![[:en]Corporate COP21 – it’s official[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/parigi-240x240.jpg)
[:en]Corporate COP21 – it’s official[:]
[:en][from corporateeurope.org]The first corporate sponsors of this winter’s ‘historic’ UN climate talks (COP21) have been unofficially unveiled: luxury brand Luis Vuitton (LVMH) and Suez Environment, a key member of the French pro-fracking lobby. According to an article by ATTAC’s Maxime Combes(link is external), others were initially announced in the press (BMW, Vattenfall and New Holland Agriculture) but...
![[:en]Gudynas: Thinking like Araucarias: development and conservation in other timescales[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/deforestazione-wwf-240x240.jpg)
[:en]Gudynas: Thinking like Araucarias: development and conservation in other timescales[:]
[:en][by Eduardo Gudynas on entitleblog.org] The dramatic loss of forests in Southern Chile and Argentina challenges classical environmental policies. Their recovery requires environmental planning in the time scale of centuries and even beyond one thousand years. But the time scales considered under present-day development hardly deal with a few years of recovery. Consequently, an effective conservation requires placing objectives in...
![[:en]Incorporating Induced Seismicity in the 2014 United States National Seismic Hazard Model—Results of 2014 Workshop and Sensitivity Studies[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/fracking3_web-240x240.jpg)
[:en]Incorporating Induced Seismicity in the 2014 United States National Seismic Hazard Model—Results of 2014 Workshop and Sensitivity Studies[:]
[:en][By Mark D. Petersen, Charles S. Mueller, Morgan P. Moschetti, Susan M. Hoover, Justin L. Rubinstein, Andrea L. Llenos, Andrew J. Michael, William L. Ellsworth, Arthur F. McGarr, Austin A. Holland, and John G. Anderson] Abstract The U.S. Geological Survey National Seismic Hazard Model for the conterminous United States was updated in 2014 to account for new methods, input models, and data necessary for assessing the...
L’UE dice sì agli OGM: Monsanto ringrazia
[di Gabriele Cruciata su Il Vittoriale] «Queste autorizzazioni confermano che Juncker non ha alcuna intenzione di avvicinare l’Unione Europea ai suoi cittadini, ma vuole solamente agevolare gli interessi di Stati Uniti e Monsanto». Con queste parole Federica Ferrario, responsabile della campagna Agricoltura Sostenibile di Greenpeace, ha accolto la decisione della Commissione UE – capitanata dal lussemburghese Jean-Claude Juncker – di...
![[:en]Ethiopia: from autarchy to developmentalism[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mele_funeral-240x240.jpg)
[:en]Ethiopia: from autarchy to developmentalism[:]
[:en][By Ivan Cuesta-Fernandez on entitleblog.org] As fast-track growth overhauls the Ethiopian society, the regime is obliged to re-consider its recipe of mixed authoritarianism and development – as Franco’s Spain was. On May 24 Ethiopia will celebrate its fifth parliamentary elections. A defeat of the incumbent Ethiopia’s People Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), in power since 1991, appears as highly unlikely. Such a...
![[:en]UN Climate Summit Poem “Dear Matafele Peinem”[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/dear-matafele-peinem-240x240.jpg)
[:en]UN Climate Summit Poem “Dear Matafele Peinem”[:]
[:en][by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner on youtube.it] On 23 September 2014, 26 year old poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, from the Marshall Islands, addressed the Opening Ceremony of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit. Kathy was selected from among over 500 civil society candidates in an open, global nomination process conducted by the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service. Kathy performed a new poem entitled “Dear Matafele...
