Uneven Developments
Carbon Trading Comes To China
April 12, 2013
A recent report by the Asian Development Bank predicts problems for Asian countries resulting from galloping increases in energy needs. […]
Read PostNew colors of capitalism: REDD+ and the green economy
April 11, 2013
Excellent overview of why REDD+ doesn’t make sense, with some good info about on-the-ground activism in Chiapas
Read PostSustainable Futures?
April 10, 2013
Sustainability is a fuzzy concept. First gaining widespread attention in the Brundtland Commission’s report Our Common Future, the terms has […]
Read PostREDD+ offsets don’t add up: Report shows why use of international forest offsets won’t reduce carbon emissions
April 5, 2013
Key new report shows that carbon offsetting doesn’t work. Scrap REDD+
Read PostApril 3, 2013
Maintaining seed diversity is key to civilizational resilience. Moves to impose the protocols of industrialized agriculture on diverse peasant economies […]
Read PostStop Land Grabs
April 2, 2013
I’ve been writing quite frequently of late about land grabs, which can be directly tied to what David Harvey calls […]
Read PostApril 1, 2013
Rise in direct action is driven by industry’s shift to extreme extraction. Particularly important here are developing forms of transnational […]
Read PostWhat We Communists Want
March 31, 2013
Following on my last post concerning the danger of reproducing the dismal logic of contemporary capitalism in representations of uneven […]
Read PostUneven Geographies
March 30, 2013
In his important book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Rob Nixon discusses the efforts of writer-activists to […]
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