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Climate change lessons for KZN

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Durban – KwaZulu-Natal is getting lessons on climate change ahead of the all-important United Nations conference on the pressing subject matter later this year.

KZN MEC for Agriculture, Environmental Affairs and Rural Development, Lydia Johnson, took to the streets of Ntuzuma township in an awa

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Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm Goliath

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Borneo Penan
Borneo Penan

A small group of Borneo hunter-gatherers have scored a major victory over a giant oil palm firm that was targeting their rainforest.

Survival International revealed last month that the Malaysian firm Shin Yang was clearing forest and planting oil palm in an area where members of the Penan tribe were due to be resettled, to make way for the Murum dam. [Read more…] about Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm Goliath

US oil spill in Yellowstone river prompts evacuation

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Los Angeles – An oil pipeline rupture beneath the Yellowstone River has prompted temporary evacuation of residents in south-central Montana, authorities said on Saturday.

Oil slick from the rupture fouled more than 40 km of the waterway, local newspaper The Billings Gazette reported, quoting sta

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UN fails uncontacted Indians

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Bullying Paraguay
Bullying Paraguay

The UN’s flagship business initiative is being used as a tool to mask human rights abuses, according to Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay.

Leaders of the tribe, some of whose members are still uncontacted, have written to the UN Global Compact saying they are ‘concerned and frustrated’ by the inclusion in it of a controversial Brazilian ranching company. [Read more…] about UN fails uncontacted Indians

The Story of Stuff

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The Story of Stuff

“Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, in consumption .. we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerated rate”