Uneven Developments
Too little, too late
June 3, 2014
The chief executive of Shell is scheduled to visit Nigeria, according to a recent article, to win support for clean-up […]
Read PostSanitation and Sexual Violence
June 2, 2014
Two days ago, two teenage girls were gang raped and then murdered outside a village in Uttar Pradesh in India. […]
Read PostGreen groups issue warning over EU biomass plans
May 22, 2014
The climate contradictions of biofuels are increasingly evident.
Read PostWaterworld
May 20, 2014
Hard on the heels of news that the Western Antarctic ice sheet has already begun to collapse, and that this […]
Read PostAusterity doesn’t work
April 24, 2014
Austerity doesn’t work, according to an article in today’s New York Times. The article focuses on the fact that the […]
Read PostLife and debt, and suicide
April 22, 2014
In the grad seminar I’m currently teaching on postcolonial ecologies, we did one unit on the struggles rural people in […]
Read PostOne step forward, two steps back
January 27, 2014
Two recent articles in the New York Times suggest not just how far we are from where we should be […]
Read PostA Tale of Two Sandys
January 8, 2014
My friends at the Superstorm Research Lab have just released an amazing white paper on the impact of Hurricane Sandy. […]
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