Views Friday, April 22, 2011 On Earth Day, Recognize the Rights of Mother Earth This Earth Day, we need to start envisioning a future based not on exploiting nature but on recognizing that nature has inherent rights. Ironically, this week also marks the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, the worst one in U.S. history. Beyond headline-grabbing catastrophes, every day we dump 2 million tons of toxic waste into the world’s water, the equivalent of the weight of the entire human population. Every day we literally blow the tops off of mountains to release hidden coal. Read more
Views Sunday, December 12, 2010 We Need 1,000 Cochabambas Months before civil society boarded planes or hopped on buses and bikes destined for Cancun (yes, we met up with a small contingent of cyclists arriving from West Virginia) — it was clear that we weren’t really very welcome. Read more
