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Ecuador: water is not for sale and the páramo is defending itself

The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) presented the National Assembly with the “Draft Organic Intercultural Law for Integral Water Management”. At the event held in Quito on Tuesday 28 March 2023, Leonidas Iza, president of CONAIE Ecuador, was…

Let’s free nature from the domination of finance. Petition on change.org

The value of life is not money or power. The petition promoted by Elena Mazzoni is directed to Italian President Sergio Mattarella Over the past three decades, money (finance) and power (war) have increased their dominance over life, thanks in…

The Cáceres mine gets closer and closer

In Spain, the people of Cáceres oppose the implementation of a mining project that the government continues to promote in spite of everything. As the author of this article says, “the administration is agile with large companies and slow, very…

Civil Society Groups Release Day of Zero Waste Declaration

Declaration Sent to Government Leaders Worldwide on the UN International Day of Zero Waste GAIA speaks at the UN New York, NY– On the first annual United Nations International Day of Zero Waste on March 30, the Global Alliance for…

How Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agriculture

 As a rapidly warming world strains at the shortcomings in industrial farming, key lessons can be taken from Indigenous practices. By Daniel Ross Several Hollywood action films center around an impending apocalypse in the form of an asteroid on a…

Green Groups: Safely Manage Busted Fluorescent Lamps to Avoid Mercury Vapor Release 

28 March 2023, Quezon City.  Two Quezon City-based environmental organizations reminded the public to abide by the city’s regulations governing the disposal of busted fluorescent lamps to prevent mercury vapor release from such lighting products. The Mother Earth Foundation (MEF)…

Why is the recovery of tropical ecosystems vital in the fight against Climate Change?

Tropical ecosystems: The tropical zone of our planet is located between 15°-25° degrees north and south of the equator. Because of its warm temperatures and rainfall, it offers the best conditions for the development of various tropical ecosystems rich in…

Rights of Nature PH Declares Climate Emergency, Pushes for Passage of Rights of Nature Bill

Over 80 faith-based, government, and non-government organizations have signed a declaration calling for the Philippine government to declare a climate emergency during a press conference last Thursday, March 23, 2023. The Rights of Nature Philippines (RoN PH) movement, steered by…

Toxics Watchdog Group: Ban “Forever Chemicals” 

25 March 2022, Quezon City.  Alarmed by the unfolding global contamination crisis linked to the largely unregulated production and use of the so-called “forever chemicals,” the EcoWaste Coalition has appealed to the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) to consider banning these…

Trump Rot at the EPA

A new report by the EPA’s internal watchdog has exposed Trump administration appointees that meddled in the agency’s science to weaken “the toxicity assessment of PFASs.” If not for the Biden administration, which discovered this egregious complicity by political appointees…

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