To talk of a supposedly apolitical science is wrongheaded to begin with. Science has been political since its modern inception with the Scientific Revolution, which began in part with Galileoās experiments on projectile motion
Scientists must grapple with politics and resist political reaction in order to be more effective
Arguably, no other country thus far in the 21st Century raises the question of an āexit strategyā from neoliberal capitalism more concretely, and with greater possibility and hope, than Bolivia
The number of conflicts over natural resource extraction and refining, road building and pipeline construction, and forest and water use have all steadily grown under Morales
Capitalist social relations continue to be damaging to women
The latest round of international climate negotiations–known as COP 19, for the 19th annual Conference of Parties–held in Warsaw, Poland in November,…
“The smell of inaction” is how Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth Mozambique’s international program director for climate justice and energy, summed…
On Friday, September 27, 2013, for the first time in my life, I awoke to an intense desire to monitor the opening…
A discussion initiated by activist, author and filmmaker Naomi Klein has raised important questions for the environmental movement, from the character of…
In Part 1, Williams explores the chasm between environmentalists of the leftist and rightist persuasions, in particular the role NGOs play in the…
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