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VISION & GRIT: Exceptional Zero Waste Women in the Asia Pacific Region

Akira Sakano: Contextualizing Zero Waste by Marco Sumayao On quiet days when she isn’t busy championing Zero Waste policies in Japan, you might find Akira Sakano on a secluded mountaintop, on the lookout for rare birds. She’s had a lifelong…

The Special Interest Groups (SIGs): Highlights of the 2023 WCCI Philippine Chapter National Convention, Part 2

by Genevieve Balance Kupang and Nico Candelario “Our commitment to carry out the resolutions agreed upon during the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) meetings make our WCCI organization thrive. Let us continue to truly make the SIGs the lifeblood of WCCI.”…

The Traveller and Her Shadow

A Tale of Real Reconciliation that Leads to Real Peace   A while back, a group of dear friends, fellow humanists, got together, inspired to make a video on reconciliation, a theme close to their hearts. The video was set…

Ukraine: a war to the bitter end?

A year ago the first Russian troops entered Ukraine and airborne commandos aimed at Kiev with the goal of removing Zelenski. The determined Ukrainian response thwarted the attack, and with the massive logistical, intelligence and weapons support provided by the…

Facing a new constituent process

PRELIMINARY The selection and registration phase of candidates for constitutional councillors in the new constituent process ended on the 6th of this month. Consequently, a new phase has begun in which both the parties and the candidates themselves will have…

National Congress of Medical Ethics and Deontology in Seville How does it affect us, women?

Feminists of the South This weekend the elites of the medical-health profession met in Seville to address “the future challenges and new paradigms of the new medical ethics and deontology” that will be embodied in a new Code of Ethics…

Iuventa ship destroyed in Italian custody: crew files criminal complaint

The Iuventa crew filed a criminal complaint to the Trapani Prosecutor’s Office on 13.02.2023, requesting an investigation into the abandonment and destruction of the rescue ship iuventa. As a vital part of the civil fleet, the Iuventa was in constant operation until…

A Realistic ‘Energy Transition’ Is to Get Better at Using Less of It

Being an early adopter of solar technology has given me personal insight into some of the practical limitations and difficulties of the energy transition. By Richard Heinberg In 2022, I authored two articles expressing doubts about society’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable…

Dismantling “development”, by Ted Trainer

Millions of people are simply abandoning the conventional capitalist model of development, turning away to build their own collective, self-sufficient, non-market, frugal forms of development in accordance with cultural traditions. By Ted Trainer* For over two hundred years it has…

Study: 140 million people could fall into extreme poverty due to energy crisis

Households in Central Asia continue to be the hardest hit by rising energy prices, followed by South and Southeast Asia. RT English – The global energy crisis, triggered by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, has driven upward the price of energy for…

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