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. 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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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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Oct. 20, 2011 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Bill waren, Trade
As another round of negotiations on a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement between the United States and seven other Pacific countries began on October 19 in Peru, Friends of the Earth joined 20 other environmental and civil society groups to...
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Jun. 17, 2011 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth, Publications / Tags: Bill waren, Trade
In July 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives is likely to vote on three new free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama. Friends of the Earth and other environmental advocates oppose ratification of the three agreements, which ...
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