What’s MG Reading
Here you will find articles written by various authors, to contextualize the movement, issues, debate, and solutions.
To see articles written by Movement Generation, visit our MG Articles & Speeches page.
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 & War
Waste, Toxics & Health
Woman & Gender
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
Manuel Pastor, Robert Bullard, James Boyce, Alice Fothgrill, Rachel Morello-Frosch & Beverly Wright | In the Wake of the Storm: environment, disaster and race after Katrina
CONSUMER CULTURE & PERSONAL CHANGE:
K. Ansje Miller | What’s Fair? Consumers and Climate Change, Redefining Progress [PDF Version]
ECOLOGY, ECONOMY, ENERGY & CLIMATE –
Financial Crisis, Green Economy, New Systems:
Movement Generation | The Case for Holistic Economic Transformation Urban Habitat [PDF version]
Preeti Mangala Shekar | 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 | Fueling Destruction in Latin America: The Real Price of Agrofuels
Richard Heinberg | Is “Clean Coal” a Dead End?
Indigenous Peoples’ Guide to False Solutions to Climate Change [PDF Version]
Sasha Lilley | Debunking False Solutions
Clayton Thomas-Muller | Cycle of Destruction Energy Exploitation on Sacred Native Lands
FOOD & AGRICULTURE –
Food Sovereignty, Farming, Farmers Rights, Urban Farming:
Dana Harvey | Urban Food Co-op Tackles Economic Empowerment
Frances Moore Lappe | The City That Ended Hunger, Belo Horizonte, YES Mag
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:
Beverly Bell and Other Worlds Collective | Who Says You Can’t Change The World, Just Economies and Societies in an Unjust Planet
Jeff Conant | The Right to Ecological Development, Left Turn
Movement Generation | Climate Change is Now… Is the Left Ready, Left Turn
Movement Generation | Ecology and the Left, Left Turn, PDF version
Center for Story-based Strategy (formerly Smart Meme) | A Call To Inovation PDF Version
RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE:
Poplock | The Poor Are Hit the Hardest By Climate Change, But Contribute the Least to it, Seattle PI
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?
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:
Corpwatch | Climate Justice Fact Sheet
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
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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