Friends of the Earth’s blog is a staff-run blog that provides policy analysis, insight and commentary about the environment and other progressive issues, advances our campaigns, and builds momentum for a healthy and just world.
Mar. 25, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Archer / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Spring is in the air, and as we plant our vegetable gardens and enjoy the blossoming flowers, it’s easy to forget the small creatures that keep many of our spring favorites alive and are essential to our food supply: bees. One out of every ...
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Biofuels, Honduras, Human rights, Ifc, Jeff conant, Palm oil, World bank
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 / Tags: Climate finance, Karen orenstein
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. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Eric hoffman, Genetic engineering
Friends of the Earth is excited to announce our new campaign to prevent genetically engineered fish from hitting our dinner plates: the Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood. As we recently reported, the U.S. Food & Drug Administr...
Read More »Mar. 8, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, San Onofre News / Tags: Nuclear reactors, San onofre
The just-released Mitsubishi Heavy Industries report on the San Onofre steam generators conclusively reveals that, as far back as 2005-2006, the joint Southern California Edison/Mitsubishi anti-vibration bar design team had identified worrisome pr...
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Mar. 7, 2013 / Posted by: Rey Edward / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: China pollution, China sustainable development, China sustainable finance, Chinese finance, Chinese overseas finance, Green credit directive, Green credit policy
How green can China be? Can China hold true to its commitment to sustainably financing overseas investments by requiring banks to consider international environmental standards when making loans? These are the tough questions China needs to ask in...
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Mar. 7, 2013 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Bill waren, Trade
Friends of the Earth, U.S. has released a new video, “Peril in the Pacific: Trans Pacific trade agreement threatens people and the planet.” The video highlights the threats to the environment and human rights posed by the secret negoti...
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Mar. 7, 2013 / Posted by: John Kaltenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Arctic shipping, Heavy fuel oil, John kaltenstein, Whales
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...
Read More »Mar. 5, 2013 / Posted by: Ian Illuminato / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Ian illuminato, Nanotechnology
Friends of the Earth has released new testing results from the Australian Government’s National Measurement Institute , which has found that many popular sunscreen and cosmetic products are using potentially hazardous forms of a common ingre...
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Feb. 25, 2013 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Cruise ships, Marcie keever
The Carnival Triumph’s “cruise from hell”…the tragic capsizing of the Costa Concordia in Italian waters…the Shell oil rig that ran aground on a small island south of Kodiak, Alaska… …there hasn’...
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