Stories by Jeff Conant
Jeff Conant is a writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author of A Community Guide to Environmental Health (Hesperian Foundation, 2008) and A Poetics of Resistance (AK Press, 2010).
Posted on Apr 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The Gill Tract is prime agricultural soil that activists hope can feed hundreds. But the UC Berkeley-owned land may be sold to Whole Foods.
Posted on Jun 8, 2011, Source: AlterNet
A leading environmental activist from Chiapas talks about the threats faced by biofuel plantations, carbon offset programs and more.
Posted on May 25, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The judge greenlighted most of the policies in California's AB32 except the cap and trade plan, which some argued would benefit polluters at the expense of poor communities.
Posted on Apr 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Communities in California and Mexico are angered by a cap-and-trade plan that could shift the burden from polluters to poor communities.
Posted on Feb 4, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The promise of carbon credits and free money from schemes like the U.N.-backed Clean Development Mechanism, appear to be among the causes of renewed violence.
Posted on Nov 7, 2010, Source: YES! Magazine
Under the agreement, no geoengineering projects can take place until risks to the environment as well as social, cultural, and economic impacts have been assessed.
Posted on Nov 5, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The quest to replace black fuels with green fuels is just another resource and land grab by big corporations.
Posted on Oct 25, 2010, Source: AlterNet
How close are we to space sunshades, mountaintop painting, 'fertilizing' the oceans with iron, and redirecting hurricanes? Closer than you might imagine.
Posted on Jun 7, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The practice known as 'cloud seeding' has been done in California for decades. But the environmental costs are high and the regulations for corporations nonexistent.
Posted on Mar 31, 2010, Source: Transnational Institute
In early February, representatives from more than 30 countries met to discuss the benefits and dangers of democratizing water resources.
Posted on Feb 19, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Despite a widespread crisis of confidence inspired by the failures of privatization and the global economic crisis, the private water industry is far from giving up the ghost.
Posted on Apr 2, 2009, Source: AlterNet
If we learned anything from the World Water Forum it should be that the privatization model has failed and a grassroots movement is needed.
Posted on Mar 18, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Behind the public posture as a trade expo and an educational forum for water advocates lies a labyrinth of political intrigue and corporate cronyism.
Posted on Mar 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A block of southern governments led by Uruguay is building support for an alternative, legitimate forum to be led by the United Nations.
Posted on Jan 9, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Bolivia ignited anti-globalization supporters by ousting the company that controlled its water. But that was just the beginning of its problems.
Posted on Dec 1, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The idea that Coca Cola can be environmentally accountable for the water it uses -- 'water neutral' -- has many skeptics.
