Shell to pay out $83 million to settle Nigeria oil spill claims
Royal Dutch Shell will pay out 55 million pounds ($83.4 million) in compensation for two oil spills in Nigeria in 2008 after agreeing a settlement with the affected community. [by Julia Payne and Simon Falush on [Reuters->http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/07/us-shell-nigeria-spill-idUSKBN0KG00920150107?utm_content=buffer6b5a7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer]] The largest ever...
Help Mexican citizens fight GM corn
Grrrowd is a new crowdfunding movement supporting legal “David versus Goliath” actions to defend social, environmental and economic rights worldwide. by Nick on [EJOLT] Grrrowd is a new crowdfunding movement supporting legal “David versus Goliath” actions to defend social, environmental and economic rights worldwide. They want to realise “Justice powered by the crowd”. One of their first four crowdfund actions is a case of...
Anti-Cuadrilla group’s fracking protest leaflet misleading, says watchdog
An anti-fracking brochure produced by activists will no longer be distributed after the UK advertising watchdog decided it was misleading. by {Jamie Merill} on [Indipendent.uk] In a setback for the anti-fracking lobby, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found that sections of the leaflet from the Residents Action On Fylde Fracking (Raff) protest group misinterpreted scientific data around shale gas extraction and exaggerated...
WINTER SCHOOL ENTITLE | Political Ecology and Research for Society
Entitle Intensive Course, Research for civil society Rome December 2014 WINTER SCHOOL ENTITLE | Political Ecology and Research for Society From 14 to 18 December, the CDCA, in collaboration with A SUD, are organizing in Rome a week of Winter School of Political Ecology and several public activities inside of [ENTITLE PROJECT->https://cdca.it/spip.php?article2176&lang=en]}, the European doctoral program funded by the European...
Why Nicaragua’s canal could spell environmental disaster, and possibly revolution
Construction is about to begin on a massive, Chinese-built canal through the heart of Nicaragua — but there are many people who want to stop it [By Sami Grover on [mnn.com->http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/why-nicaraguas-canal-could-spell-environmental-disaster], 15th december 2014] Lake Nicaragua is the largest reservoir of drinking water in Central America, not to mention an important source of both...
Degrowth: a vocabulary for a new era
“Degrowth: a vocabulary for a new era” is now available! The book has more than 50 chapters on the key words of the degrowth theory and movement. Email the news about the release of the book to your network, tweet it to your followers, share the video on facebook. We will be very grateful! The Editors {Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis } – Watch a short and funny trailer video for our book – You can find...
