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January 06 2012
The Second Wind of the Worldwide Social Justice
Movement
We have to think of the world struggle as a long race, keeping the
eyes on the end goal – a different kind of world-system, far ...
By Immanuel Wallerstein
January 02 2012
The Century Ahead: Searching for Sustainability
We have examined our scenarios in great quantitative detail to the
year 2100 for eleven world regions. The summary presented ...
By Christi Electris ◾ Paul Raskin ◾ Richard Rosen ◾ Tellus Institute
December 19 2011
Civil Society Organizations: Time for Systemic
Strategies
Myriad civil society organizations (CSOs) are addressing the full
range of environmental and social problems, including ...
By Michael Narberhaus ◾ Orion Kriegman ◾ Pamela Pezzati ◾ Paul Raskin
December 17 2011
Who will control the Green Economy?
As governments prepare to sanction a Green Economy at Rio+20, ETC
Group provides an update on corporate power and warns that the ...
By ETC Group
December 14 2011
Governance of international trade for the green
economy
Today’s trade system may be incapable of steering the world into a
“green economy.” It is, however, a wisely constructed ...
By International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development ◾ Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz
December 13 2011
Enter the Four Degrees Celsius World: The
Failings of Climate Negotiations
Perhaps the UN’s tedious methods are not the answer for the run-away
crisis of climate change.
By Saliem Fakir ◾ South African Civil Society Information Service
December 13 2011
How not to tackle climate change and call it a
success: the Durban package
The package was officially sold to the world as a success, but it’s
easy to see it doesn’t do what it is supposed to do, and it ...
By Nele Marien
December 13 2011
Global Environmental Governance: The Role of
Local Governments
What could a model for involvement of local governments in
international environmental governance look like?
By ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainibility ◾ Konrad Otto-Zimmermann
December 11 2011
Wealth, power and the future of the planet
Concentration of wealth is unjust and confers undue advantage to
those who then use this wealth primarily to usurp the ...
By International Forum on Globalization ◾ Jack Santa Barbara
December 10 2011
The Green Economy: the Wolf in Sheep’s clothing
Faced with evidence of the planet’s limitations, it is even more
urgent to stop the capitalist machinery of systematic ...
By Edgardo Lander ◾ Transnational Institute