Presumably few Europeans would oppose one percent of their water bill going to international solidarity projects to help people who don’t yet have access to safe water and adequate sanitation. And as the Swedish proverb says, many little streams m…

Nancy Peluso’s exciting and much discussed keynote speech drew on the metaphor of the ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Using the humorous but thought-provoking imagery of the story, Peluso highlighted the variety of ways in which the relationship between n…

Day two of the Nature™ Inc conference, and a special day indeed. We only had one round of sessions in the morning, and one plenary session. The rest of the day was devoted to a fieldtrip to the Oostvaardersplassen. More about that in a minute: fir…

Finally, after a year of preparations, the Nature™ Inc Conference started today! This conference, held at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Hague, seeks to critically engage with the market panacea in environmental policy and conservati…

Susan George is Chairperson of TNI. She introduces the 2011 Fellows Meeting. When talking about sharing the pie, dividing resources, what are your…

The alarm bells this time are not being rung by climate scientists or by environmental activists. They are rung by none other than the International Energy Agency (IEA), the institution set up in the 1970s to defend the interests of western oil co…

Yao Graham expresses his concern about the new scramble for Africa at the TNI Fellows Meeting 2011. Graham is the Executive Director of the Third World Network, a research and advocacy organisation based in Accra, Ghana….

Brian Ashley, editor of Amandla magazine, believes in the importance of linking the climate crisis with other pressing struggles. In South Africa people are faced with mass unemployment, a housing crisis and land issues. In order to make the clima…

Susan George, (2010), “Whose Crisis, Whose Future? Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World”, Polity Press, Cambridge. The book is published as well in French and Spanish, see details below. Here is a book that attempts to explain how high finances…

Investing 2% of global GDP into ten key sectors can kick-start a transition towards a low carbon, resource efficient Green Economy, a new United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report suggests.The sum, currently amounting to an average of a…