Botswana President shamed by Bushman protest at election rally
Botswana’s President Ian Khama was met with protests during an election rally at a Bushman eviction camp last Saturday, over government attempts to starve the Bushmen off their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. on[ Survival International] Kalahari Bushmen demanded that their right to hunt to feed their families be recognized. They brandished slogans reading “Hunters Not Poachers” and “Bushmen are the best...
Designed to fail … and the solutions
While violent conflicts over rare metals used in our phones and laptops continue and e-waste keeps piling up, engineers break their heads over new ways to ensure that products die quicker. By {Nick Meynen} on [Ejolt It takes 244 kg of fossil fuel, 21,8 kg of chemicals and 1.5 tons of water to manufacture one computer and monitor. Carsten Wachholz, product policy officer from the European Environmental Bureau: “To offset the energy...
Canada’s real international shame — and it’s not Ford: Burman
When will this horrid scandal end? Can someone please turn the channel? Shamed on the world stage and ridiculed by many, Canada has been exposed in recent days as a country with political leadership that is greedy, self-indulgent, incompetent and dismissive of our children, as well as woefully captive of special interests. by {Tony Burman} on [tarsandssolutions And I’m not referring to Rob Ford. His 15 seconds of fame — as “The...
Complaint against CEO of Chevron submitted to ICC
By Nick Meynen. BREAKING NEWS: Pablo Fajardo, lawyer for 30.000 Ecuadorian victims of Texaco’s environmental liabilities in the Amazon, just filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. This new frontline in probably the most complex legal conflict ever, accuses the top two people in Chevron: John Watson (CEO) and Hewitt Pate (Vice-president) of crimes against humanity. Chevron aquired Texaco in 2000 and...
When to count the damage? Economic tools for evaluating liabilities in environmental justice struggles
One way to confront environmental injustice is to use economic evaluation tools. by {Nick } on [EJOLT] BRUSSELS, 20 October 2014 | MEDIA RELEASE The health and environmental implications of fossil fuel exploitation, nuclear waste or mining-related pollution are some of the more well-known effects of the increasing energy and material use of the global economy. One way to confront environmental injustice is to use economic evaluation...
Live streams of ENTITLE Latin American Conference on PE
21-24 October 2014 | We are glad to inform you that 4 of the sessions from the next week Latin American Conference on Political Ecology will be streamed live Live streams of the keynote sessions from the ENTITLE Latin American Conference of Political Ecology Under the auspices of the [ENTITLE project->https://www.cdca.it/spip.php?article2176], the Department of Geography at the University of Chile is organizing the first-ever Latin...
