Land & Environment

Given the radical decrease in belief in the reality of global warming among the population of the United States and various Western nations in recent years, it may seem premature and a bit hysterical to cry wolf about the dangers of remedial measures that may never be implemented.

Inspiring Quotes:

“Every time history moves backwards or repeats itself, the cost rises. Every time history moves forwards, hope and possibility for the future rises.” (Anonymous)

The letter below was sent on 15 April 2015 to the President of the UN Security Council, HE Dina Kawar, Ambassador of Jordan to the United Nations, with a request for circulation among the Members of the Council.

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Sometimes a single event reveals crucial stories about our strengths and weaknesses in advancing progressive social change and ecological sanity.

On 12 February 2015 President Jacob Zuma announced that his ANC government would soon be tabling the Regulation of Land Holdings Bill, which will limit land ownership by South Africans to 1200 acres and will no longer allow foreigners to own land in South Africa.

If you use social media, you may well have seen a graphic going around, showing a tiny square in the Sahara desert with the caption: ‘This much solar power in the Sahara would provide enough energy for the whole world!’

A new report shows that the farmers are being forced off the land they have farmed for generations to make way for US company to Dominion Farms to establish a 30,000 hectare rice plantation.

The report, "Land and seed laws under attack", documents who is pushing what changes in these two battlegrounds across Africa.

Violent fantasies are founded on two assumptions. First, that violence can solve one’s problems. Second, that one is good at violence. Seldom is either of these conditions true.

On Tuesday, 2 December 2014, SAIH – The Norwegian Students and Academics International Assistance Fund announced this year’s winners of the Rusty Radiator Awards at an official awards ceremony in Oslo.