The mortuary at Dorchester hospital is in a small, single story building, hidden away in a far corner around the back of the hospital. I know this because for six months in the late 1980’s I worked in the family funeral business. Part of that business included a...
At the foot of a miniature Eiffel Tower, civil society, environmentalists and Indigenous Peoples rejected REDD, a carbon market mechanism, land-grabbing false solution to climate change that could potentially cause genocide, at the World Climate Summit today....
The environmental movement will never save the planet unless it actively focuses its ire clearly on those who are most to blame for the crisis – the powerful. There is no such thing as neutrality. If you are neutral in situations of oppression, you have chosen...
I believe most people, if polled, would say that they value health, peace, and the protection of natural resources like clean water, fertile land, and unpolluted air. I do! Don’t you? However when looking at a typical American meal, what is present are items that...
This article was first published in This Is Africa on 5th March 2015 By Rachel Hamada on March 5, 2015 — A new report on agroecology details a holistic system of farming that allows power – and food – to stay in the hands of the many. The news can be hard...
