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Talking The Wrong Way About Carbon 

The climate movement is talking about carbon all wrong, a new book argues Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life...

Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It

Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert (Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2021). https://www.brightgreenlies.com By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) | Axis of Logic Axis of Logic exclusive  Monday...

Study warns up to a quarter of Philippine vertebrates risk extinction

By Keith Anthony S. Fabro / Mongabay The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of its unique land-dwelling vertebrate...

Filipino Communities Use Vast Variety of Endemic Plants 

By Keith Anthony S. Fabro / Mongabay In the forested highlands of Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines, Mingay Dakias knows exactly where to find medicine — not in modern health clinics but in...

Greater Equality Is Better for the Planet

Editor’s note: Wealth inequality is higher in the Empire than in almost any other “developed” country and has risen for much of the past 60 years. The Black-white wealth...

Rich Nations Fuel Global Biodiversity Loss at ‘disproportionate’ Scale

Norway: Thousands of Youth Demonstrated against “Green Colonialism”   On March 3, the largest civil disobedience action in recent Norwegian history came to an end. 16 Sami activists occupied the lobby...

Our Humanity Dictates Including Palestine

Palestine is the central geopolitical and moral issue of our time.   By Prof Jem Bendell / living with metacrisis and collapse Many of us are lucky that societal collapse is still only a concept. It...

The Philippines Is Going All-in On Transition Minerals 

“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” The island of Mindanao in the Philippines is ringed by beaches and covered in volcanoes...