Technical Report: Socio- Economic Impact of Forest Harvesting Moratorium in Kenya
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Kenya has had two harvesting moratoriums in public and community forests; the first one was […]
Update to limits to growth
Comparing theWorld3 model with empirical data Abstract In the 1972 bestseller Limits to Growth (LtG), the authors […]
Yep, it’s bleak, says expert who tested 1970s end-of-the-world prediction
A controversial MIT study from 1972 forecast the collapse of civilization – and Gaya Herrington is here […]
COVID-19: We can’t predict what’s next. But here’s what we can do now.
Not long after California’s June 15 grand reopening, a celebration of the lifting of most of its […]
The Invisible, and Growing Ecological Footprint of Digital Technology
The elements of our lifestyle which we most closely identify with tend to be off-limits to any […]
“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”
Healthy soil can be an economic asset On 26 February 1937, the 32nd President of the United States, […]
Rivers Are Key to Restoring the World’s Biodiversity
This article was produced by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. […]
Timmermans lets Thunberg down again on green farming
Activists poured scorn on political difficulties in reforming the Common Agricultural Policy as ‘bullshit.’ EU Green Deal […]
Campaigners’ rage against the cage could prompt EU farming revolution
Over 1 million EU citizens want to break Europe’s 300 million farm animals out of confinement. Europe’s […]
European cities revive tram networks to cut transport emissions
An old form of transport is new again thanks to pressure to decarbonize. LISBON — Yellow eléctricos, […]
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth
As degrowth ideas speed their way into social movements and academic research, they have encountered some interesting […]
The Southwest Offers Blueprints for the Future of Wastewater Reuse
This article first appeared on Truthout and was produced in partnership with Earth | Food | Life, […]
Environment protest being criminalised around world, say experts
More than 400 climate scientists sign letter that says activists are being targeted at pivotal time in […]
1% of farms operate 70% of world’s farmland
Researchers warn land inequality is rising with farmland increasingly dominated by a few major companies. One percent […]
Where hyperinflation really threatens
NOT GROCERIES, NOT WAGES – SYSTEMIC EXPOSURE Right now, the outlook for inflation – or, conversely, for […]
We Don’t Need More Life-Crushing Steel and Concrete
The long-term needs of ecosystems should come before our knee-jerk expectations about infrastructure. We were driving through […]
Non-Violent Techniques for Human-Wildlife Conflict Resolution
For many centuries, humans and wildlife species have co-existed through domestication and protection of habitats. However, because […]
UN adviser shames BBC for ignoring Western human rights abuses
An adviser to the United Nations hit out at the BBC for totally ignoring Western human rights […]
How Brussels wants to make your shopping woke
A futuristic shopping spree shows how the EU hopes to hold companies responsible for human rights and […]
Transforming Sustainability Science to Generate Positive Social and Environmental Change Globally
Despite the decades-long efforts of sustainability science and related policy and action programs, humanity has not gotten […]
UCL Beyond Boundaries Session 11: Dr Aisha Dasgupta & Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta Presentation
In this video, in addition to the discussion session on Thursday 29th October 2020, Dr Aisha Dasgupta […]
Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame
Researchers believe a factor is a chemical used in dry cleaning and household products such as shoe […]
There aren’t enough trees in the world to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be
One morning in 2009, I sat on a creaky bus winding its way up a mountainside in […]
Did Sweden get Covid wrong?
Johan Giesecke, the country’s former state epidemiologist, assesses a year of pandemic. This time a year ago, […]
Bhutan: Conservation and Environmental Protection in the Himalayas
Bhutanese ecology as never before seen from the inside by one of the country’s leading scientists, with […]
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