25 March 2013

- By Theodora Oikonomides and Zoe Mavroudi Skouries is the most important Greek story you’ll rarely hear about. It’s an ancient forest in northern Greece, where a mammoth Canadian gold-mining company is staking its claim. Gold-mining, environmental concerns, state repression, police violence and a sturdy and organized local anti-mining movement have made Skouries a veritable battle ground [...]

3 July 2012

BY Cindy O’Connor Today is the second day of carbon pricing in Australia. Conservatives and corporates threatened everyone that it would be the end of the world. It isn’t! How can a triple bottom line of people, planet and profit be achieved? We need to have a plan. Why? We are highest emitter of greenhouses gases [...]

15 June 2012

- from Going to Work At the Rio+20 conference in Brazil, starting this week, world leaders will be debating how to achieve sustainable economic growth, fight poverty and inequality and ensure environmental protection for the planet. Formally known as the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the event provides unions and other organisations interested in [...]

30 April 2012

BY Paul Opanga It is few months before heads of state gather again in Brazil in June 2012 to resolve to work together for a prosperous, secure and sustainable future for the people and the planet. The Rio +20 Meeting under theme “the future we want” has recognised critical issues that include jobs, energy, cities, [...]

30 April 2012

BY Aisha Bahadur It is in the interest of the developed world to keep Africa poor. Resources of the continent are exported to continue building development in industrialised nations.  Africa has been blocked from colonial times by the developed world from making strategic use of these resources for its own development, hence the weak industrial [...]