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The global shift in rainfall will see many current food producing areas suffer from drought or low crop yields by 2020 according to an article published in the journal Nature this week. While Europe, North America, Chile, West Africa and Australia are all headed for an overall reduction in rainfall, East Africa, Pakistan, western and Continue Reading →
Detailed measurements of ocean temperatures this week reveal that the world’s oceans have absorbed over 90% of the additional heat trapped within the Earth’s atmosphere as the result of additional carbon dioxide. As a result, ecosystems are shrinking away from the equator, disease is spreading among fish populations, wild storms are on the increase resulting Continue Reading →
Writing in CounterCurrents this week, Gustavo Esteva reports that the Oxaca Commune in Southern Mexico has continued to evolve and grow despite brutal repression by the Mexican government in 2006. A gentle revolution by the largely indigenous population of 4 million people set out to displace the economy from the center of social life, reclaiming Continue Reading →
The Finnish Government has moved ahead with plans to trial a Basic Income Scheme on 2,000 random citizens to study the impact on employment. Under the scheme, recipients receive a basic income of $US600 per month. Prime Minister Sipila wants to see if the measure can boost employment and simplify the welfare benefits system. “The Continue Reading →
The John James newsletter this week collated a number of statistics about the Australian take up of solar energy Australians have invested $8 billion of their own money in rooftop solar over the last 8 years, and they now save around $1 billion in electricity bills each year [1] Rooftop solar systems will prevent over Continue Reading →
Global efforts at reforestation are accelerating, gollowing commitments made in the Paris Agreement of November last year. Volunteers in India smashed a world record by planting 49.3 million tree saplings on July 11. Last year, volunteers in Ecuador planted 647,250 trees from 200 species in one day. In 2014, Men of the Trees planted 100,450 Continue Reading →