Friday, January 14th, 2011
Silvia Ribeiro* Las negociaciones de Naciones Unidas sobre cambio climático en Cancún en diciembre 2010 (COP 16) significaron un parteaguas en muchos sentidos, todos negativos. No así las movilizaciones populares frente a esta cumbre, de organizaciones como Vía Campesina y otras de base, que no han perdido el sentido de la realidad, de lo que [...]
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Mapmaking and conquest has a disturbingly close history. As indigenous people learned, the innocuous mapmaker may be followed by weapons, property claims and exploitation. So too for the recent rash of science projects using mapping
Monday, February 6th, 2006
While some ETC Group staff were in Caracas strategizing with partners to strengthen the global opposition to Terminator, others of us were subjected to the slog of the CBD meeting in Granada. And one of us was spending a few days with unlimited access to free chocolate at Swiss Re’s opulent Centre for Global Dialogue near Zurich. Swiss Re, the world’s largest re-insurer (an insurer of insurance companies) is concerned – no surprise – about those risks associated with nanotechnology that may result in financial losses for the company.
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