Green Energy: Panacea or Just the Latest Hype?

You can hardly open up a major newspaper or national magazine these days without encountering the latest hype about biofuels, and how they’re going to save oil, reduce pollution and prevent climate change. Bill Gates, Sun Microsystems’ Vinod Khosla, and other major venture capitalists are investing millions [...]

For Z Magazine, February 2006

Expectations were high in early December of last year, as 10,000 delegates, representing 189 countries, converged in Montreal to discuss the future of international measures to limit global climate change. A broad spectrum of international NGOs, from Friends of the Earth to the corporate-friendly Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), described [...]

- From Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade and the Globalization of Hunger,
Burlington, VT: Toward Freedom, 2004.

Chapter 3

The World Bank, which celebrates its sixtieth anniversary in 2004, has underwritten several of the most environmentally devastating projects ever undertaken in the name of progress and economic “development.” Wherever people are displaced and communities [...]

Sidebar to “Control through Contamination” by S’ra Desantis

For ISE Biotechnology Project and ACERCA

June 2003

A recent delegation to the rainforest of southeastern Mexico discovered that issues of biopiracy and GMOs are very much on the minds of campesinos, activists and traditional healers in the highlands of Chiapas and beyond. The delegation [...]

Once again, Vermont’s local town meetings have taken an ethical stand on issues of compelling national and international significance. Vermont’s annual town meetings, held every year on the first Tuesday in March, are among the oldest surviving institutions of direct democracy in the United States. Dating to well before the American Revolution, these annual face-to-face [...]