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Freedom in Diversity

Now is the time to reject the industrial agriculture model, a model that came from and behaves like war. Industrial agriculture is destroying life on Earth, destroying the role of women in food and farming, and destroying our health and…

BAN Toxics calls for a meaningful plastics treaty to cut plastic pollution in Philippines

“As countries negotiate the second round of international negotiations (INC-2) in Paris, France this week, we forward our calls to global leaders to demand a binding treaty for plastic reduction, global transparency, and uphold the rights and environmental justice of…

Films starring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas received the Trophy of the International Uranium Film Festival in Rio

Rio de Janeiro’s 12th International Uranium Film Festival has given its awards.  The three top awards go to Sweden, USA and Serbia.  “It’s always difficult to determine the festival winners. But this year it was especially difficult. Each of the…

The economic roots of the war in Ukraine

What are the real reasons for this conflict? Is it the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO and, more broadly, the fact that NATO has expanded to include 14 new countries since the end of the Cold War (from 16 to…

Unfreedom: Fifty Years Later

Nearly fifty years ago I emigrated from the Soviet Union. My only reason for leaving all that was known to me was a deep longing for freedom of expression. I resented restrictions on foreign publications and deplored the practice of…

Global South Voices: Listen to the Most Impacted Community and People Leading Solutions

Paris, France– The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) held a press conference along with representatives from Acción Ecológica México, Zero Waste Alliance Ecuador, Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers, Kenya National Waste Pickers Welfare Association, and Community Action Against Plastic…

An energy deal will usher in new avenues in Dhaka-Kathmandu relations

Energy cooperation between Nepal and Bangladesh is one of the most promising areas of cooperation. Plans to make power an exportable good are outlined in Nepal’s 15th Five-Year Development Plan (2019-2024). Nepal plans to grow its 1,250 MW of electricity…

“It is time for mediation, nuclear disarmament, and positive peace”

(DIRE) Bologna, 25 May [2023]. – “It is time for mediation, nuclear disarmament, and positive peace”. After the conference that a few weeks ago re-launched the request for a Ministry of Peace in Bologna – in view of 2 June…

Nuclear Turns Fashionable

Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are the new nuclear craze, especially with the U.S. Congress, as America’s representatives see SMRs as a big answer to energy needs and reduction of greenhouse gases, advertised as a green deal for clean energy that…

‘Clean Energy Is Moving Fast’: Investments in Renewables Will Overtake Fossil Fuels for the First Time This Year, IEA Says

A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) says that investment in clean energy is “significantly outpacing” fossil fuel spending and will surpass it this year, with solar projects expected to exceed oil production expenditures for the first time. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes According to the World Energy Investment…

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