Born and raised in Vancouver, Severn Suzuki has been working on environmental and social justice issues since kindergarten. At age 9, she and some friends started the Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO), a small group of children committed to learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. They traveled to 1992’s UN Earth Summit, where 12 [...]

hello! spring is here… and the Shell AGM approaches in May. We have 6 shell shares to give away! You must be prepared to be an active shareholder!! (go along to the meetings either in London or Holland on Tuesday 20th May 2008)
http://www.shell.com/home/content/investor-en/shareholder/faq/rds_shareholder_faqs.html
You will have to give some personal details.
for contact see The Rossport Solidary [...]

Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her citation reads:
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007
“that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”
Doris Lessing
The citation for the IPCC and Al Gore reads
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007
“for their efforts to build up [...]

My pal Christine Clear is someone who thinks outside the box. Next weekend, she will think inside a Yurt in Dun Laoghaire. If you want to see what a yurt looks like, have a look at her website.
She’s hosting the inaugural celebration of Spirituality at the Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures, [...]

Just about a year ago, Patrick Chapman and I set up an experiment called Irish Literary Revival. As we put it in our introduction,
This is where out-of-print and out-of-circulation Irish books are brought back into the world. Although our name is a pun, our intentions are serious.
Would that we both had more time to [...]

On a day when the world’s media is consumed with the unintended decapitation, rather than the “civilized” hanging of a former tyrant, perhaps Carl Sagan’s words put a few things in perspective.
Of the “pale blue dot” reproduced at Futility Closet (link below), he said
That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you [...]

There were nasty scenes in North Mayo early this morning, when the Gardaí (Irish Police) baton-charged local residents and supporters when they tried to block a convoy of Shell construction workers building a gas pipeline near their homes.
It seems extraordinary that the Irish police would baton-charge its own people to allow a multinational company [...]

Humanity slides into the red today and begins racking up an ecological overdraft driven by unsustainable exploitation of the world’s resources, according to a report by the sustainable development organisation Global Footprint Network.
In little more than nine months, humans have used up all that nature can replenish in one year, and for the rest of [...]

Yes, I know,the eyes just glaze over when people bang on about what we are doing to the earth. Every now and again one should lighten up, as Al Gore wisely did in If Al Gore Had Been President
*update: Google appears to have removed this video*
And then…
Al Gore’s Speech in NYU advocating replacement of [...]

Currently, half of Sweden’s nuclear reactors are idle, but it’s not because of the 1980 referendum in which Swedish citizens asked for a nuclear phase out plan and a switch to renewable energies (f.ex. the state-owned Vattenfall utility is investing $1 billion in wind and wants to build Northern-Europe’s biggest wind farm), but because of [...]