Achieving sustainability in an era of perpetual growth
In a recent article, retired soil scientist Fred Magdoff draws our attention to one of the most pressing problems in the global environmental movement: its failure to address the...
Messages from the People’s Climate March
Over 300,000 demonstrators attended the People’s Climate March on September 21st, 2014 in New York City. The march was not organized around an official message or points of unity,...
People’s Climate March – A Movement in the Making or a Dull Knife?
As the People’s Climate March looms right around the corner, a debate is surging within the climate movement over the significance of the march and the usefulness of its...
Going to the People’s Climate March? Here are the details
Date: Sunday, September 21st The march begins at 11:30am at Columbus Circle in New York City. Participants should plan to enter the march line-up according which “contingent” you belong....
Disruption – A film about the need for action on Global Climate Change
This week the organizers of the upcoming People’s Climate March released a film in conjunction with PF Pictures. The film is Called Disruption: Climate. Change and includes interviews by...
Solar Power in India! Who Will Benefit?
India’s National Solar Mission was launched in 2010 with the goal of adding 20,000 Mega-Watts of grid connected solar power by 2022. The National Solar Mission supports small and...
Getting the Most Out of the Sun: Agrovoltaic farming, Agroforestry, and the Third World
A group of researchers in Montpelier, France have developed a new system of farming called agrovoltaic agriculture. This system makes it possible to use the sunlight shining onto fields...
Assessing 50 Years of Agrarian Transition in India
Excerpts from the Inaugural Address of Second Chance Foundation Director Dr. Joan Mencher to the International Seminar on Agrarian Transition in India, January 28th 2014. “When I first started...
Film “Cesar’s Last Fast” spotlights the struggle to protect US farm workers
In a segment on today’s edition of Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman spoke with Richard Ray Perez, the co-director of a new film about Cesar Chavez’s last political fast. Cesar...
The Flawed Science Behind GM Crops
The debate over the safety of foods made from Genetically Modified (GM) crops has been raging bitterly since GM crops were first introduced in the early 1990s. As expected,...