Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests
In a press release issued yesterday by Friends of the Earth International, we asked for cancellation of a World Bank loan to Honduran palm oil producer Grupo Dinant. Here's why:
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications
The third meeting of the United Nations Green Climate Fund wrapped up last week. Though “paradigm shift” emerged as the new catch-phrase of GCF discourse -- as the fund’s governing instrument calls for a “paradigm shift tow...
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Mar. 7, 2013 / Posted by: John Kaltenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests
With Arctic sea ice melting dramatically due to global warming and natural resource development and trade on the upswing, the region is confronting substantial growth in commercial shipping within its waters. Increased Arctic shipping raises threa...
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Feb. 4, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
Science and social movements agree: Palm oil expansion is bad for people and bad for the planet Just a few years ago, palm oil entered the spotlight as one of the best and brightest options for a “drop-in” biofuel feedstock (a type of...
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Jan. 10, 2013 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Food and Technology
Right before the holidays, while most of us were spending time with our families and friends, the Food and Drug Administration was busy giving the biotechnology industry a big, fat, genetically engineered gift. On December 21, the FDA quietly rele...
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Jan. 2, 2013 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
Often, I am asked to assess the environmental movement. Will we win the fight against the fossil fuel industry? Can we prevent the worst impacts of climate disruption? Who’s out there fighting the good fight for a healthy and just world? My...
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Nov. 23, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Oceans and Forests
"Global warming is fueled by oil, coal, and natural gas exports. The World Trade Organization, the proposed Trans Pacific trade agreement and international investment agreements are designed to protect “free trade” in dirty energy prod...
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Nov. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Existential crises usually kick in mid-life, as one wakes and wonders: what is my purpose in life? Why am I here, and where am I going? Though still in its infancy, the Green Climate Fund, a new institution of the United Nations Framework Conventi...
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Nov. 14, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Friends of the Earth visits the Canadian Embassy to protest Pac Rim gold mine fiasco On Monday, November 12, I joined representatives of several environmental and public interest groups gathered in front of the grandiose and distinctly odd Canadia...
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Nov. 3, 2012 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
This week, Hurricane Sandy fulfilled what many of us had been dreading as we watched it move up the coast: its landfall on the coast of New Jersey and a merger with a massive cold front left millions in the East without power, shelter, or worse. A...
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