
The Alternative World Water Forum stands on the very verge of a global struggle for a paradigm-shift beyond the commodification of the commons.
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Everything on climate, nature, agriculture and energy.

The Alternative World Water Forum stands on the very verge of a global struggle for a paradigm-shift beyond the commodification of the commons.
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By freeing itself from dependency on exploitative and repressive systems, Occupy Wall Street has allowed roses to grow out of the concrete everywhere.
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By ignoring the adverse effects of laissez-faire economics on the environment and on social disparities, the Queen’s speech from the throne ignites indignation.
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What are the economic and political consequences of high and rising oil prices? And will the Arab Spring really help wean us off the Black Gold?
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This stunning WWF audio slideshow displays the ancient way of living of the Balau Laut, which is being threatened by depleting fish stocks and environmental degradation.
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Very little attention seems to be expended to the millions of people who will die as a result of coal-related accidents, pollution and climate change.
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Leading UK environmentalist launches desperate plea to fellow Greens not to make “unjustifiable leap” and abandon low-carbon nuclear power over the Fukushima emergency.
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In 2008, Ulrich Beck wrote in the Guardian that nuclear power should not be seen a “green panacea” but as a “reckless gamble,” and warned the world that we are being urged “to climb into an aircraft for which a landing strip has not yet been built.”
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The triple tragedy that is unfolding in Japan has starkly revealed a major contradiction in man’s relationship to nature under the conditions of late modernity. Stumbling along in ‘collective blindness’, humanity continues to live at the mercy of risks that we will never fully understand.
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While Japanese workers are furiously trying to stave off a nuclear meltdown, the political fallout has already reached European shores — in a very big way.
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