Tag: Environmental Justice - Page 5
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Six Months Later, Stories of the Gulf Oil Spill Collected by NRDC & StoryCorps (Video)
In case the Gulf oil spill has begun to fade from your mind already, here are a couple first hand accounts to keep the impact fresh. Put together by NRDC in collaboration with StoryCorps and Bridge the Gulf, these are the first in a series of
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Vedanta Resources' Orissa Bauxite Refinery Expansion Blocked by Indian Government
Two months after the Indian government stopped plans by UK-based Vedanta Resources to put a bauxite mine on a mountain held sacred by two indigenous tribal groups in Orissa, on the
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India's First Environmental Tribunal Opens - 'Anyone & Everyone' Can Bring Cases Before Court
Back in May it was announced that India was establishing a National Environmental Tribunal to focus on prosecution of green crimes. While it's not quite establishing ecocide as a crime internationally, it's a good
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Falcons Fullback Ovie Mughelli Calls for End to Coal Ash (Video)
As a rule, celebrity eco-campaigns can be a mixed blessing. Everybody knows Sting likes organics, Prince Charles wants to save the rainforests, and that Daryl Hannah wants to save just about everything. While these TreeHugging
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EPA Revives Environmental Justice Working Group After Ten Year Hiatus
With little fanfare other than press release a week ago (which I missed and Miller McCune didn't) the Environmental
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The Dark Threat of Ecofascism
I confess I've always been bemused when angry skeptics denounce climate activists as "Hitler Youth", or label fellow TreeHugger Lloyd as either an eco-fascist or an eco-commie. While environmentalism, like any
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Commercial Palm Oil Production in Southeast Asia Violating Indigenous Peoples' Rights: New Survey
Take this one as reinforcement of what plenty of environmental NGOs have been saying for some time: The commercial palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia is trampling the rights of indigenous people and destroying
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Teenagers Plant 'Seeds of Peace' at a Unique Summer Camp in Maine
All of the media around questions of the mosque being built near Ground Zero is a powerful reminder of how intense and raw feelings are and how quickly those those feelings can turn to hatred and to
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Na'vi Hit London to Protest British Mining of Sacred Indian Mountain
It seems that even though "Avatar" is finally out of theaters, its environmental message and memorable imagery have taken root. Protest groups have used the movie's themes to raise awareness of
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Detroit Residents Getting Burned by Polluting Trash Incinerators
Residents in one Detroit neighborhood are anxiously awaiting the decision of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Environment (MDNRE) on whether a
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Raj Patel on The Value of Nothing
Raj Patel is one of the few people who has both worked at the World Bank, and been tear gassed protesting against it. An activist scholar, and author of Stuffed and Starved, Patel argues that markets are a beautiful thing, but that modern capitalism has
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Global Warming Hits World's Women Hardest - Especially When They Don't Have Equal Rights
It's already well known that climate change is not an equal-opportunity threat, with its impacts on food production,
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Repackaged, "Luxury" Mooncakes Foil China's Wasteful Packaging Ban
China has a packaging problem. I don't mean a branding problem. I mean the materials that companies cover their stuff with.
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WISER Earth: User Created Directory of 'the Largest Movement on Earth'
TreeHugger is a huge fan of Paul Hawken. We've interviewed him on TreeHugger Radio here, we've been honored to have him as a judge on our Convenient Truths video contest, and we've been gushing in our praise of his book Natural Capitalism. This
