environment

Dollars & Ecology

different shades of green?

[i]“[The crisis]. . has released forces of flexibility on the part of the 'system’ which amount to overhauling and restructuring the productive apparatus and the social organization of society. Eco-industrialism puts a price tag on what was once upon a time free of charge.

Choking Heads

collective editorial

The ecological crisis is no longer a threat. It is here. Even if all of the ecocidal practices of the global production system were halted tomorrow, irreparable damage has already been done. Mass extinction of species, destruction of the rainforests, loss of the protective ozone layer and the “greenhouse” global warming effect all will continue to have disruptive effects through the next century.

Processed World #22

Issue 22: July 1988 from http://processedworld.com

The Battle for East Lake in Wuhan, China

Submitted by husunzi on Apr 13 2010 18:37

Hundreds of Wuhan citizens are fighting to save the city’s East Lake Ecological Tourist Scenic Area (东湖生态旅游风景区) from plans to fill in part of the lake and develop the area commercially.

Villagers and fishery workers evicted by the development have been negotiating with the local government for compensation since December, in the face of physical assault by hired thugs.

Tension in the Cabanyal, a district of Valencia, Spain

Submitted by grupo_ruptura on Apr 12 2010 10:45

We present this account of the conflict in the district of the Cabanyal (Valencia, Spain). It is written by residents involved in the struggle against the construction of a big avenue which would cut the district in half.

For several years there has been a conflict in the valencian district of the Cabanyal going on. The mayor council wants to destroy a lot of houses in order to make a big avenue right through this traditional popular and fishers´district with its special arquitecture where relationship between the neighbours isn´t yet destroyed by the effects of modern metropolitan life.

Green communism: responses and our reply

Submitted by Juan Conatz on Feb 4 2010 07:40

The article in Subversion #21, Green Communism, provoked a flurry of correspondence. Much of it attacked from a primitivist viewpoint. Here are two of the letters for publication. One was from Green Anarchist, the second was from ”JW”. Then, of course, comes Our Reply. From Subversion #22 (1997)

Letter from Green Anarchist

Dear Subversion,
Thanks for Subversion 21 - keep us on your mailing list.

Tree Sit Halts the Blasting on Coal River Mountain

Submitted by pheeebles on Jan 21 2010 19:05

MARFORK, W.Va. – Protestors associated with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice halted blasting on Coal River Mountain today with a three-person tree-sit.

“Coal River Mountain was the last mountain around here that hasn’t been touched and they could’ve been using it for windmills…But Massey wants to get that coal. It seems like they just don’t care about the populace. Just the land and their checkbook.”
– Richard Bradford

Chavez: When red and yellow don't make green

Submitted by Caiman del Barrio on Jan 19 2010 16:24

It may seem like an age ago now in the midst of all the subsequent economic tumult over here, but I wanted to write about Chávez’ recent rhetorical excursion at the emergency Climate Change summit in Copenhagen last month.

Never the one to spare any expense or effort on PR, the Venezuelan President first managed to address a group of Danish leftists through a translator (a somewhat ad hoc exercise in rabble-rousing which turned into a succession of "Vivas!" for his anti-imperialist allies, with Iran a curious omission).

New Orleans: after the storms, 2005

Submitted by Steven. on Jan 5 2010 20:07

Prol-Position on New Orleans and the hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005.

Right after Katrina hit, it looked like issues of race, class, and poverty were again coming to the forefront in the United States.

Manufactured scarcity - the profits of deindustrialisation

'Green capitalism': a new paradigm of sustainable production or a licence to shut down plants and print money? Basing this article on excerpts from his recent book, James Heartfield looks at the case of Enron, an influential pioneer in increasing profits by cutting output

Of course companies that sell climate change solutions stand to benefit as greenhouse gas emissions come to bear a price tag.

– Daniel Esty Hillhouse, Professor of Environmental Law, Harvard University1

  • 1. The Green List, The Guardian supplement, p.29, 5 November 2007.