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CONDOMS FOR CONSERVATION (con't) We've previously reported here and here that rainforest conservation can b...

FAREWELL FREI HEITOR Governador do Acre, Binho Marques, awarding the Order of the Star of Acre to Frei Heitor Turini. Amidst fanfare and...

MARINA SILVA:  LIGHT OF THE AMAZON Marina Silva 's visionary departure from the business-as-usual politics that has been determining ...

U.S. CLIMATE BILL: RIP The last year and a half has produced endless versions of a proposed climate bill. Senate Democrats had already sc...

BRASIL BRASILEIRO Eric Stoner celebrates the incredible beauty and diversity of Brazil. Gilbert Gil, Brazil's world musician and t...

TOXIC GULF (Views from the bottom.) Not from the bottom of the sea but from the real folks on the ground. Definitely five stars. (parts 2...

THE CONSPIRACY TO GRAB THE AMAZON Ever since Henry Wickham committed the bio-piracy that led to the British Empire's more efficient ...

"Can the Amazon Thrive in the 21st Century?" The title is not mine. It belongs to Andrew Revkin's post at the NY Times blog D...

MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING Mountaintop removal coal mining in Kentucky Wendell Berry asks WHAT ELSE? Go to original at Solutions Jou...

WHY OBAMA IS BEING VERY CAUTIOUS ABOUT HERALDING THE CORKING OF THE GULF GUSHER First of all, we really don't know if the well wil...

HOW TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER Says it all!

OH, GOD OF DEVELOPMENT, WHO DO YOU SERVE? The music video above has emerged as an anthem for the struggles of indigenous peoples across I...

WHY WE ARE STUCK Geographer David Harvey explains the internal contradictions of capital accumulation and why capitalism cannot acce...

IGNORANCE TRUMPS FACTS (USUALLY!) Want to reinforce people's attachment to misinformation? Just give them the facts. And, not only is...

EVERY BLADE OF GRASS A FLOWER To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your han...