PLATFORM continue to focus on the issues of corporate responsibility for oil conflict in the Niger Delta through their project Remember Saro-Wiwa. The Guardian's extensive story on a new report by the social and environmental activists highlights the consequences of Shell paying off militia groups to stop them damaging pipelines. This funds and stimulates conflict... Continue Reading →
BLDGBLOG: Tar Creek Supergrid
BLDGBLOG's most recent post relates to a PhD focusing on re-purposing abandoned mines as renewable energy infrastructure.
Wasteland Twinning
Wasteland and stalled spaces are important. This new project connects wasteland in different places as well as offering some suggestions for ways to explore those on your doorstep - join in and be twinned with places in Indonesia, Australia, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Malaysia, India (interestingly there are no US or Canadian partners). Most of... Continue Reading →
AHM’s State of Play, Dundee
AHM's final State of Play event takes place in Dundee on Saturday 1 October. As with previous events it will include a number of 'One Minute Manifestos'. One of these has emerged through a collective process of writing initiated by Tim Collins and contributed to by a number of participants in the Values of Environmental... Continue Reading →
Natural Rights
Philosophically speaking 'natural rights' is an element of an argument about the basis of the rights that individuals have in society. What if nature had rights? What if there was a Ministry of Mother Earth? What if the experiences of people living with land were given priority? Remember that capitalisms roots are in the extraction... Continue Reading →
Top 5 reasons why tar sands cover-up “ethicaloil.org” is a seriously dirty trick | Platform
Top 5 reasons why tar sands cover-up “ethicaloil.org” is a seriously dirty trick | Platform. Thanks to Suzaan Boettger for drawing attention to PLATFORM's rebuttal of the "ethicaloil.com" website. "ethicaloil.com" is a web site that purports to demonstrate that tar sands are an ethical form of oil extraction as distinct from "conflict oil". We... Continue Reading →
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