By Alex Grossman, Director of Communications Earlier this month Ecuador’s Constitutional Court made a unanimous decision to reject Chevron’s final appeal of a $9.5 billion pollution judgment that found the company guilty of deliberately dumping billions of gallons of toxic oil waste into the Amazon rainforest. This was a huge victory for indigenous groups that […]
The Ituango hydroelectric dam on the Cauca River, Colombia’s largest hydropower project to date, was slated to bring millions of dollars and a host of detrimental environmental impacts to the country and its people. For the many locals who live near the project, their ways of life have been severely altered by the construction – […]
“The half million acres of the Bialowieza Puszcza contain Europe’s last remaining fragment of old-growth, lowland wilderness. Think of the misty, brooding forest that loomed behind your eyelids when, as a child, someone read you the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales”. –Weisman, A. (2008). The world without us. London: Virgin Books. Situated between Poland and Belarus, […]
By Alex Grossman, Director of Communications “Today, too much research is done from a distance, so that peoples’ agency and authority are taken away and placed in outsiders’ hands and control. This is the mistake of history: that it is often the story of the victor, not of the vanquished.” Bobby Peek, Director of groundWork, […]
Words by Majandra Rodriguez Acha and the TierrActiva Colombia team with special input from Jorge Jimenez Castro. In 2017, TierrActiva Latin America received a $7,500 grant to organize a climate justice gathering in Machetá, Colombia as the first official activity of the network. Over three days, the group welcomed 80 youth climate leaders of various […]
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