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ERA: Twenty years of fighting environmental crimes
by Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director, ERA/FoEN (1993-2013). Nnimmo speaks at an event to mark the 20th Anniversary or EJOLT partner ERA. This is his speech: It…
EJOLT PROJECT EXTERNAL EVALUATION REPORT
Professor Jennifer Clapp (Waterloo University, Canada) is the external evaluator of the EJOLT project. She has recently finished the Evaluation Report for the first 18 months (April…
NEW ONLINE COURSE: “Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice”
EJOLT is running an online course “Ecological Economics and Environmental Justice”, taught through civil society organisation (CSO) case studies across a broad range of topics…
EJOLT contributor Marc Ona arrested!
By Khadija Sharife. When does a man – bound to a wheelchair – become an Enemy of the State? When Marc Ona arrived at the…
NEW BOOK: Ecological Economics from the Ground Up
EJOLT follows from a previous FP7 project called CEECEC and this book is one of the results of that 2 year long effort by 8…
Stay tuned on struggles for environmental justice
As the EJOLT project gains steam, we are increasing our efforts to keep you up to date on the fight for environmental justice – wherever…
Summer School and Workshop on Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, and Conflicts
This course, held from July 2nd – July 11th 2012, examines the global movement for environmental justice and focuses on socio-environmental conflicts at different scales and in different…
General News
European support for the first network of research and training in political ecology
A group of eleven organisations, coordinated by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), will train 18 researchers…
International seminar on environmental justice and water justice
EJOLT is the co-sponsor of an international seminar on environmental justice and water justice in Colombia, October 2013. Here is the call for papers: Objective…
Massacre in Totonicapán, Guatemala
Seven were killed and some 40 wounded on Oct. 4 when security forces attacked a protest road blockade by Maya indigenous campesinos in Guatemala’s highland…
Environmentalists becoming an endangered species
By Leon Dulce. Willem Geertman, a Dutch missionary and NGO worker, was shot dead in front of his office in San Fernando, Pampanga on the second…
Opinion
Ejolt partner Accion Ecologica wins Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Prize
By: Vaaruni Eashwar (TERI)/New Delhi, India, December 2012 Indian think tank The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) recently announced the winners of the first-ever Georgescu-Roegen…
STEFANIA BARCA: The Environment and the Working Class
“Environmentalism is a luxury hobby for affluent people with jobs”. That’s a pretty common statement you’ll find in North and South alike. Too often, the…
Geoengineering conflicts: the ETC map
Joan Martinez-Alier. When we wrote the EJOLT project three years ago, we selected a wide range of environmental justice conflicts: from extraction to waste and…
High speed train in Italy. The end of the tunnel?
By Lucie Greyl. It will be almost 20 years since an entire Italian alpine valley started to resist against the development of a new high-speed…
Mining activists killed in Mexico
The double assassination on October 22, 2012 of the leader of Barzon movement, Ismael Solorio Urrutia, and of his wife Manuela Martha Solis Contreras is…
Champions of De-Growth Offer Alternatives to Destructive ‘Extractivism’
EJOLTs’ coordinator – Joan Martinez Alier – was a keynote speaker in the recently held third international degrowth conference, in Venice. He spoke about the…
Destroying Africa’s oldest and best known slum: Makoko
By Godwin Ojo and Nick Meynen. In Nigeria, the Lagos State Government ordered to demolish a 200-year old settlement at the Makoko waterfront. The first…
EJOLT partner CDCA: new english website with conflict map and more
The CDCA – Documentation Centre on Environmental Conflicts, now an autonomous non profit organisation, was founded in October 2007 by the Italian Association “A Sud”….
Ten African countries going for the green economy of the 1%
By Michele Maynard. The recently adopted text “The Future We Want” by Heads of States attending the Rio+20 Earth Summit is, yet again, a reflection…
Rio+20 ‘compensates’ emissions with Brazilian CDM credits. Bad idea.
Those that participated in the Rio+20 conference must have noticed that the UN was proud to ‘compensate’ all carbon emissions from the conference through buying…
