by Jessica Mosby – USA – The world’s weather is changing and millions of people will be displaced. This tragic reality is captured in the new documentary film, Climate Refugees. Without engaging in the divisive global warming debate, director and…
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Climate Refugees: The Human Toll of a Changing Planet
Tagged with: alternative energy, Arts & Culture, climate change, Environment, Films & Documentaries, interview, Michael Nash, Politics, Refugees
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
A Turbulent Year for California’s Cormorants
by Kimberly N. Chase – USA – Once one of the world’s most notorious prisons, Alcatraz is now home to a new type of visitor – nesting seabirds. On a bright May morning this year, the sun cast bold shadows…
Tagged with: Animals, California, Conservation, Environment, San Francisco, Science
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
Crude: The Real Price of Oil – An Interview with Director Joe Berlinger
by Jessica Mosby – USA – Crude: The Real Price of Oil is outright sickening. Huge crude oil pits dot the landscape, natural waterways are so polluted that drinking the water causes cancer, and Ecuador’s indigenous communities’ entire way of…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, Berlinger, Chevron, Ecuador, Environment, Films & Documentaries, interview, Latin America, oil, Pollution
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Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
Creating Sustainable Cities: The Bay Area and New York City Lead the Way
by Michelle Chen – USA – Angela Greene has a tough job: she and her workcrew scale the rooftops of Richmond, California to run wires, lay racks, and bend metal piping. Yet in the end, when she unfurls a gleaming…
Tagged with: activism, Energy, Environment, New York City, San Francisco, Science, Technology
Posted in Economy, FEATURE ARTICLES
Posted in Economy, FEATURE ARTICLES
Threatening Tides: Extinguishing Ecosystems and Communities in the Name of Hydroelectric Power
by Michelle Chen – USA – “Rich men dam the water Flooding the hill rice field, causing problems for Mother Rich men dam the river Flooding the roof and making Mother homeless” To the Karen people living along the Salween…
The 11th Hour: Only Governments Can Make the Big Changes Affecting the Environment, But There Are Still Lots of Real-World Solutions for the Average Joe!
by Jessica Mosby – USA – In an admirable effort to contribute to the dialogue on what to do to save the planet, Leonardo DiCaprio has recently released a documentary film, The 11th Hour, which he produced and narrates. However,…
Tagged with: Arts & Culture, Environment, Films & Documentaries, Natural Resources, sustainability, United States
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
Medical Community in Uganda Unites in Support of Pesticide Use to Eradicate Malaria – Environmentalists Still Protest
by Halimah Abdallah Kisule – Uganda – The numbers are staggering. Dr Myers Lugemwa, officer in charge of malaria research at the Ministry of Health’s Department of Malaria Control Program says, “Malaria is the greatest killer in this country: 320…
Are Biofuels Really the Answer? New Studies Blow the Lid Off Biofuel Production and the Price the Planet Will Pay
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP – USA – The issue of deforestation hasn’t been on my radar for some years. It is one of the problems on our planet that I’d assumed would be so obvious that surely…
Tagged with: Conservation, Energy, Environment, Technology
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The WIP Editorial
Climate Change: An Urgent Issue for Poor Countries Like the Philippines
by Imelda V. Abaño – Philippines – Nowhere will the impact of climate change be felt more than in the world’s poorest nations where people live on less than a dollar a day. The brutal reality is that impoverished countries…
Uganda’s Coffee Producers Hope to Benefit from Vietnam’s Dismal Crop Yield After Climate Change Diminishes Supply
by Esther Nakkazi – Uganda – Coffee exporters in developing countries are bracing themselves for higher unit export prices.Triggered by speculative buying from a supply shortage from Vietnam, one of the world’s biggest coffee producers, current conditions are fueling an…
