Category: Analysis

Protecting Displaced Slum Populations

Since May 2006, more than 150 slums in Delhi, India have been demolished under government pretenses of transforming India’s capital into a clean and more cosmopolitan world city. Learn about our grantee the Hazards Centre.

Bishop Cappio Ends Three-Week Hunger Strike

January 4, 2008 UPDATE: Bishop Luis Flavio Cappio ended hunger strike after three weeks of fasting in opposition to a planned diversion of the Sao Francisco Reiver in northeast Brazil.

Two Thumbs Up — Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute; fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.

Kerala, India: Precedent-Setting Zero Waste Action Plan

Grassroots community action group Thanal has achieved a milestone in their fight for healthier, cleaner communities in India. The Zero Waste approach doesn’t just seek to find a place to store waste—it designs it out of the system.

Climate Change Conference Summary and Thoughts

Environmental activists flocked to Bali for the UN climate change conference. Several of our own advisers were in attendance to ensure that the critical grassroots role in this world dilemma was not overlooked.

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