Deforestation
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The Looming Food Crisis and the ‘Food 2030’ Report
It can’t go on like this…. Not long ago I was standing in a bookshop, minding my own business, when…
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The Biology of Global Warming
What Manhattan may have looked like… Often, as I’ve travelled and lived in different parts of the globe, I’ve stood…
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How to Repair the World
The video embedded in this page spotlights the excellent work of Willie Smits I profiled a little while ago, where…
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The Case of Syngenta: Human Rights Violations in Brazil – 2008
The Case of Syngenta: Human Rights Violations in Brazil – 2008 2mb PDF Switzerland is often portrayed as a clean,…
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One for the Children – The Lorax
I think this might be the first time we’ve ever played ‘contraband’ material here on PRI (see text below clip…
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Inferno on Earth: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit…
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Dalpura Farm – Experiments in Permaculture Forestry
Photographs © Craig Mackintosh Inter-row Eucalyptus saligna (Sydney blue gum) & Casuarina cunninghamiana (river she oak) planted in 2000 I…
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Our Global Ponzi Economy
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Our mismanaged world economy today has many of the characteristics of a Ponzi…
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Are You Paying to Burn the Rainforest?
If you’re buying Brazilian beef, the answer is yes by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist,…
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Rich Nations Buying Up Land in Poor Countries at Escalating Rate
As concerns over food security – and maintaining a lavish lifestyle – deepen, people in poor nations are seeing their…
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Home (video)
The following documentary, ‘Home‘, is almost perfect. As a photographer, I was totally engrossed in the imagery – mostly shot…
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