environment
Videos: Cuba's green revolution
A clip from the BBC's Around the World in 80 Gardens (2008) introduces the urban organic food gardening revolution in Havana, Cuba.
Are livable cities just a dream?
By Dave Holmes
Individual versus social solutions to global warming
By Terry Townsend
Climate Crisis — Urgent Action Needed Now!
Statement initiated by participants in the Climate Change|Social Change conference, Sydney, Australia, April 11-13, 2008. The statement is now available at to be signed online at http://www.petitiononline.com/Nelmezzo/petition.html. Please distribute this information to your networks, and get all who are serious about fighting global warming to sign on.
The conference was organised by Green Left Weekly. For video and audio from the conference, please click here.
The following statement was started by the participants in the Climate Change|Social Change conference. It is being distributed to environmental, trade union, Indigenous, migrant, religious and community organisations to help build the movement against global warming.
London, May 8, 2008: Can the free-market stop climate change?
Is big business responsible for dangerously increasing levels of CO2 emissions or can we buy our way out of climate change with market based solutions such as carbon trading?
Take part online or in person.
Speakers:
Caroline Lucas, MEP Green Party
Peter Hardstaff, World Development Movement
Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
Watch online
This will be streamed below on 8 May 7.30-9pm.
Register for an email reminder of when the event is live
Watch in person
To attend the live event please register for a free place.
Marxism and the environment -- John Bellamy Foster
Marxism and the environment was a workshop given by John Bellamy Foster to the Climate Change Social Change Conference, in Sydney on April 12, 2008.
Climate change solutions: what role for the market? & Equity in energy consumption -- Patrick Bond
Two talks by Patrick Bond, delivered at the Climate Change Social Change Conference, Sydney, April 12, 2008.
Climate change solutions: what role for the market?
Climate change and its social roots
Recording of the public meeting at the Climate Change Social Change Conference April 11, 2008.
Speakers
Cuba: The challenge of fossil fuels and climate change
Roberto Perez, Cuban biologist and permaculturalist, Antonio Núñez Jimenez Foundation for Nature and Humanity, a Cuban NGO. Feature talk at the Climate Change Social Change Conference, Sydney, April 12, 2008.
Audio: John Bellamy Foster on `Ecology, capitalism and socialism'
John Bellamy Foster's feature talk, recorded at the Climate Change Social Change Conference on April 12, 2008.
Video and audio: Cuban permaculturist -- `Climate change means we must change'
Cuban permaculturist Roberto Perez spoke at the Climate Change | Social Change conference, April 11-13, Sydney. Click here for more videos and text.
Video: John Bellamy Foster on Capitalism and Climate Change
John Bellamy Foster, Marxist ecologist and editor of Monthly Review, addressed the Climate Change I Social Change Conference on “Capitalism and Climate Cha