C40 World Mayors Summit 2019: Vandana Shiva
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Satyagraha for a Sacred Economy
On 2nd October 2019, Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, a new Satyagraha for a Sacred economy is beginning in Bangalore.
Education and knowledge can stop the fake “science” of multinationals that is leading the planet and society to collapse
It is significant that at a time in history when a global economic paradigm shift is being loudly and clearly demanded due to the evident and documented failure of the current system of production, global trade and distribution that...
We Need Biodiversity-Based Agriculture to Solve the Climate Crisis
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Truthout, 22 September 2019 | Source The Earth is living, and also creates life. Over 4 billion years the Earth has evolved a rich biodiversity — an abundance of different living organisms and ecosystems...
“Poison-free, Fossil fuel-free Food & Farming Communities: 2030” – Panel at Heirloom Expo
Photo courtesy of California Guild The highlight of this year’s edition of the National Heirloom Expo (Santa Rosa, California, 10-12 September 2019) was a panel presentation on the health of the planet, chaired by Mary Jacob, President of Friends...
Industrial Agriculture, based on War Technologies, continues to kill millions of species driving the sixth mass extinction: Agroecology is the Future
By Dr Vandana Shiva Statement issued on 6th August, Hiroshima Day On this day, 6 August 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima which immediately killed 80,000 people with tens of thousands more dying later as a result...
Third World Profiteering by ‘Big Tech’ Plutocrats
Erin Go Bragh, 1 July 2019 Dr Vandana Shiva is an extraordinarily powerful and persuasive critic of Gates’ interference in the sovereignty of third world nations like India. In her most recent book, “Oneness and the 1 Percent” she...
Opinion | Agroecology as Innovation
By Timothy A. Wise – Triple Crisis, 17 July 2019 | Source Recently, the High Level Panel of Experts of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its much-anticipated report on agroecology. The report signals the continuing shift...
Federal Judge Finds Hawai‘i Agribusiness Development Corporation Is Unlawfully Contaminating Kauaʻi’s Shores
Earth Justice, 10 July 2019 | Source Honolulu, HI — Hawai‘i’s Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) has violated the federal Clean Water Act by polluting ocean waters along Kauaʻi’s West Side without a permit, a federal court ruled yesterday. Community...
Column: Gen Z must carry on to protect planet
By Mackenzie Kamalei Feldman – The Star Advertiser, 10 July 2019 | Source In the last two weeks of June, Lee Johnson, the Bay Area school groundskeeper who made history by taking on Monsanto/Bayer and winning in court, was...