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.
Nov. 23, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Bill waren
"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. 14, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Bill waren, Trade
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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Oct. 9, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Bill waren
“These are the first international trade disputes which create the potential for conflict between a nation’s commitments under the WTO and its obligations under the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It rais...
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Sep. 7, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Bill waren
For 10 days, the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a colossal, job-destroying free trade agreement -- will be negotiated in secret in Leesburg, Virginia. This massive trade agreement would threaten essential environmental protections as a favor to expl...
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Jul. 24, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Bill waren, Trade
“There is little doubt that current WTO negotiations do not fully address the real problems confronting the world and the trading system itself. The threat of global climate change and the catastrophic consequences for the natural environmen...
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Jul. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Bill waren, Trade
“The beaks of Sam LaBudde’s first dolphins strained against the net that had formed a canopy over them. Their flukes churned the ocean white. They thronged at the surface, desperate to force slack in the net sufficient to free their bl...
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Jul. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Bill waren
“The trade ministers get together to set the rules of trade. They don't worry about the environment; that's somebody else's agenda. Trade above all -- that's the way they approach it. And as a result of that, we get a trade agenda that puts ...
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Jun. 28, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Bill waren
Who will join the fight to save the dolphins? Consumer boycotts and “save the dolphin” demonstrations over the course of many years resulted in a U.S. program for dolphin safe labeling for tuna products. Most Mexican commercial fishing...
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Jun. 15, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Bill waren
“There’s no reason in the world why trade agreements can’t be written that create a more just and sustainable world.” -- Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, TPP Labor Day Rally, Chicago, September 5, 2011. ...
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Jun. 8, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Bill waren
I met with Mr. Grant Kesler, the owner of Metalclad. I talked very clearly with him, saying that it was, from my point of view, virtually impossible to open the [hazardous waste disposal] site due to the opposition of the local community and the l...
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