Articles
Articles
Here you will find articles written by Movement Generation, our network partners and by various authors, to contextualize the movement, issues, debate and solutions.
Articles By Movement Generation
Articles by Topic – Click to navigate to a specific issue:
Biological and Cultural Diversity
Climate Change & Ecological and Climate Disasters
Consumer Culture & Personal Change
Ecology, Economy, Energy & Climate – Financial Crisis, Green Economy, New Systems
False & Questionable Solutions – Cap and Trade, Market Solutions
Food & Agriculture – Food Sovereignty, Farming, Farmers Rights, Urban Farming
Political and Social Change & Movement Building
Racial and Economic Justice
Resources – Resource Management, Commons, Water
Militarism & Ware
Waste, Toxics & Health
Woman & Gender
ARTICLES BY MOVEMENT GENERATION:
Jan 2, 2010 A Window to a New World, Organizing Upgrade
Dec 17, 2009 It’s Too Late to Compromise on Climate, YES Magazine
Dec 17, 2009 Towards a Coordinated and Powerful Climate Justice Movement in the US!
Dec 2009 What’s At Stake in Copenhagen
Dec 01, 2009 How to Break the Climate Stalemate Between the Global South and the North, YES Magazine
Fall 2009 War, Climate and Women, Urban Habitat
Fall 2009 War, Climate Change and Women, Urban Habitat [PDF]
Fall 2009 The Case for Holistic Economic Transformation, Urban Habitat [PDF]
Fall 2009 Resilient Cities: Building Community Control
Fall 2009 Resilient Cities: Building Community Control [PDF]
Fall 2009 Carbon Fundamentalism vs. Climate Justice Urban Habitat
Fall 2009 Carbon Fundamentalism vs. Climate Justice Urban Habitat [PDF]
Oct 01, 2009 A Time To Conspire: The Copenhagen Moment, Left Turn
March 2009 Mapping the Terrain: Campaign Research March 2009
June/July 2008 Ecology and the Left, Left Turn [PDF]
March/April 2008 Climate Justice – A Global View, Colorlines
Jan 01, 2008 Climate Change is Now… Is the Left Ready, Left Turn
BIOLOGICAL & CULTURAL DIVERSITY:
Vandana Shiva, Principles of Earth Democracy
Julie Whitty, Animal Extinction, the greatest threat to mankind, The Independent
Women Seed Forum in South Korea, Seed Heritage of the People PDF Version
Rob Hopkins, Resilience Thinking PDF Version
CLIMATE CHANGE & ECOLOGICAL AND CLIMATE DISASTERS:
Terry Allen, Climate Change Refugees, In These Times
CONSUMER CULTURE & PERSONAL CHANGE:
Derrick Jensen, Forget Shorter Showers, Orion Magazine
K. Ansje Miller, What’s Fair? Consumers and Climate Change, Redefining Progress PDF Version
ECOLOGY, ECONONY, ENERGY & CLIMATE – Financial Crisis, Green Economy, New Systems:
Judi Bari, Revolutionary Ecology WORD doc version
Victoria Burnett, A Job and No Mortgage For All in a Spanish Town, New York Times
Jeff Conant, The Right to Ecological Development, Left Turn
Bill Gallegos, Reflection on a Green Economy
George Monbiat, This is What Denial Does
Movement Generation, The Case for Holistic Economic Transformation Urban Habitat PDF version
Preeti Mangal, Tram Nguyen, Who Gains from the Green Economy, Colorlines
Vandana Shiva, Food, Finance and Climate, Triple Crisis, A Three-Fold Opportunity
Vandana Shiva, Principles of Earth Democracy
Via Campesina, Call to mobilise for a Cool Planet
FALSE & QUESTIONABLE SOLUTIONS – Cap and Trade, Market Solutions:
M.K. Dorsey, Green Market Hustlers
Friends of the Earth, GM Crops Failing to Tackle Climate Change
Friends of the Earth, Harvesting Harm: Agrofuels as a False Solution to Climate Change and Poverty
Friends of the Earth, Fueling Destruction in Latin America: The Real Price of Agrofuels
Friends of the Earth International, What’s Missing from the Climate Talks? Justice!
Richard Heinberg, Is “Clean Coal” a Dead End?
Indigenous Peoples’ Guide, False Solutions to Climate Change, PDF Version
Sasha Lilley, Debunking False Solutions
Megan Tady, Biofuels Are No Cure for Climate Change, In These Times
Clayton Thomas-Muller, Cycle of Destruction Energy Exploitation on Sacred Native Lands
FOOD & AGRICULTURE- Food Sovereignty, Farming, Farmers Rights, Urban Farming:
Victoria Burnett, A Job and No Mortgage For All in a Spanish Town, New York Times
Dana Harvey, Urban Food Co-op Tackles Economic Empowerment
Frances Moore Lappe, The City That Ended Hunger, Belo Horizonte, YES Mag
Friends of the Earth, GM Crops Failing to Tackle Climate Change
Clifton Ross, The Second Green Revolution
Vandana Shiva, Food, Finance and Climate, Triple Crisis, A Three-Fold Opportunity
Pablo Solon, Comrac Cullinan, For A Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
Via Campesina, Call to mobilise for a Cool Planet
Women Seed Forum in South Korea, Seed Heritage of the People PDF Version
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE & MOVEMENT BUILDING:
Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at, Three Calls From Copenhagen for Obama to Champion Climate Justice
Judi Bari, Revolutionary Ecology WORD doc version
Jeff Conant, The Right to Ecological Development, Left Turn
Evo Morales, 10 Commandments to Save the Planet
Movement Generation, Climate Change is Now… Is the Left Ready, Left Turn
Movement Generation, Ecology and the Left, Left Turn, PDF version
Smart Meme, A Call To Inovation
Vandana Shiva, Principles of Earth Democracy
RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE:
Rachel Oliver- Rich, Poor and Climate Change, CNN
Poplock, The Poor Are Hit the Hardest By Climate Change, But Contribute the Least to it, Seattle PI
Julie Varughese, Poor left out of Environmental Loop, Times Union
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Climate Change as Civil Rights
Ngoc Nugyen, The Climate Gap– Poor Minorities Hardest Hit By Climate Change, New American Media
RESOURCES – Resource Management, Commons, Water:
Maude Barlow, On The Threshold of a Global Water Crisis
Beverly Bell and the Other Worlds Collaborative, Who Says You Can’t Change the World?
Martin Lagod, We’re Running Out of Water, SF Chronicle
Millenium and Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystems and Human Well Being: Wetlands and Water PDF Version
Vandana Shiva, Water Wars, Excerpts from Water Wars Book
MILITARISM & WAR:
Winona La Duke, An Indigenous Perspective on Feminism, Militarism and the The Environment
Movement Generation, War, Climate and Women, Urban Habitat
Movement Generation, War, Climate Change and Women, Urban Habitat PDF version
WASTE, TOXICS & HEALTH:
Climate Justice Fact Sheet, Corpwatch
Friends of the Earth, GM Crops Failing to Tackle Climate Change
Kenny Bruno, Joshua Karliner, & China Brotsky, Greenhouse Gangsters vs. Climate Justice, Corpwatch
Robert Bullard, Toxic Waste and Race at Twenty
Robert Bullard, Toxic Waste and Race at Twenty PDF Version
Ellen Choy, Ana Orozco, Chevron in Richmond, Urban Habitat
Michael McCarthy, Water Scarcity Could Affect Billions: Is This the Biggest Crisis of All?
Lydia Polgree, Marlise Simons, Global Sludge Ends in Tragedy for Ivory Coast, New York Times
WOMEN & GENDER
Movement Generation, War, Climate and Women, Urban Habitat
Movement Generation, War, Climate Change and Women, Urban Habitat PDF version
Winona La Duke, An Indigenous Perspective on Feminism, Militarism and the The Environment
Women Seed Forum in South Korea, Seed Heritage of the People PDF Version
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