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Two International Evenings in Brooklyn

Earth in the Balance: Environmental Activism & Social Change in Brazil & China Thursday, March 10 6:30 – 8:30 PM Free of charge. A light meal will be served. Carroll…

The Triangle

…and Brazil) and analyzes the dynamics shaping this triangle. Wanqing presented an earlier version of this paper at the Global Research Forum on Production and Consumption in Shanghai, China, on…

Globalization of Factory Farming

high in fats, sugar, processed foods, and salt. Five country case studies (Brazil, China, Mexico, South Africa, and India) provide cautionary examples of how an increase in non-communicable diseases almost…

China

Only two generations after a devastating national famine, China is eating increasingly high on the food chain. In the past decade and a half, consumption of China’s most popular meat,…

A Vegan in Norway: Food, Policy, and Public Attitudes (Part I)

…York I did some research and was surprised and pleased to find a Vegan Oslo website that helpfully offered a Vegan Oslo app that I downloaded to my phone. My…

Sustainability & Community

…are being carried out with a number of NGOs, community-based organizations, and individual leaders. Girls Education, Leadership, Rights Training Initiative Supporting Indigenous Perspectives on Environmental Issues Challenge for Africa  …

Remembering Wangari Maathai: Colleague, Friend, and Inspiration

…keenly engaged in Kenya’s struggle to restore multi-party democracy. In the 1980s and 1990s, she’d led high-profile efforts to halt construction of a skyscraper in Uhuru (“Freedom”) Park in downtown…

Affiliate Event – Global Climate Action Summit

…with Demand-side Solutions Tuesday 11 September 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (525 Golden Gate Avenue), 2nd Floor Event is open, but RSVP highly encouraged to…

COP25

…climate sanity and protection/rights of human and non-human communities. We prepared a set of policy recommendations for the COP called “Climate Policy Must Support Sustainable, Equitable, and Climate-Compatible Food and…

Read Our End-of-Year Newsletter on COP28

COP28

…we got from government negotiators, the staff of technical agencies, journalists, and even other NGOs were blank stares or a version of “Oh, so you want me to be a…