Viewpoints

Act to Stop ‘Climate Deniers’ From Winning the Information War

Act to Stop ‘Climate Deniers’ From Winning the Information War

  By Nick Fillmore TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, May 22, 2013 (ENS) – The global warming deniers are at it again, and it is high time that the environmental movement in the United States and Canada launched an organized campaign to expose...

 

World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant

World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant

  By Jonathan Porritt, Co-Founder, Forum for the Future ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, December 26, 2012 (ENS) – I am seriously delighted at this photo. That’s me and Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany standing by one of the 258,048 mirrors...

 

Viewpoint: The Brazilian Digital Prophecy of 2016

Viewpoint: The Brazilian Digital Prophecy of 2016

  By Alfonso Stefanini, Environmental Consultant RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, December 10, 2012 (ENS) – As we approach the date for the Mayan doomsday prophecy on December 21, 2012, and the nature and history channels fear-monger the demise...

 

Viewpoint: Let Us Stop Breaking the Land

Viewpoint: Let Us Stop Breaking the Land

  By Stan Olmstead, Natural Resource Specialist, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, retired VERNAL, Utah, December 3, 2012 (ENS) – Never looking through rose colored glasses it is obvious that we have monumental environmental concerns...

 

Cold Hands, Determined Hearts

Cold Hands, Determined Hearts

By Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International ONBOARD THE ARCTIC SUNRISE, August 28, 2012 (ENS) – When I spoke to my friends and family this weekend I was unanimously scolded. After Friday’s 15-hour occupation of Gazprom’s...

 

On Eluding Extradition

On Eluding Extradition

By Captain Paul Watson, founder, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society {Editor’s Note: Paul Watson was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany on May 13, 2012 on a 10-year-old warrant from Costa Rica for an alleged “violation of ship traffic,”...

 

Throwaway Economy Headed for Junk Heap of History

Throwaway Economy Headed for Junk Heap of History

By Lester R. Brown, founder, Earth Policy Institute WASHINGTON, DC, August 3, 2012 (ENS) – In their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, American architect William McDonough and German chemist Michael Braungart conclude...

 

Rio+20: Outcome and Follow-up

Rio+20: Outcome and Follow-up

By Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Environment BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 11, 2012 (ENS) – Much has been said in the press and elsewhere about the disappointment many have felt about the Rio+20 outcome. Together with my colleagues...

 

INSIGHTS: Death at Dawn in a Peruvian Mining Camp

By Alejandro Zegarra Pezo PIURA, Peru, November 13, 2009 (ENS) – It is four in the morning on Sunday, November 1 in the paramo and cloud forest of Huancabamba, Piura Department in northern Peru. Harsh detonations and yellow refulgence...