http://www.fpif.org/issues/environment FPIF Issues: Environment Tue, 21 May 2013 00:01:50 -0400 en-us 38.906778-77.041481 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~3/PUSErJwx_7E/imperial_gigantism_and_the_decline_of_planet_earth http://www.fpif.org/articles/imperial_gigantism_and_the_decline_of_planet_earth Thu, 09 May 2013 14:05:44 -0400 What if the unipolar moment turns out to be a planetary moment in which previously distinct imperial events fuse into a single disastrous system?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~4/PUSErJwx_7E" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/imperial_gigantism_and_the_decline_of_planet_earth http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~3/AemRNSzLwtA/wall_streets_climate_finance_bonanza http://www.fpif.org/articles/wall_streets_climate_finance_bonanza Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:31:16 -0400 An elite group of developed countries appears to be on the brink of instigating yet another corporate handout and big bank giveaway--this time in the name of fighting climate change.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~4/AemRNSzLwtA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/wall_streets_climate_finance_bonanza http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~3/k4EpYxs74AM/sopac_expedites_new_seabed_mining_legislation_for_lockheed_martin http://www.fpif.org/blog/sopac_expedites_new_seabed_mining_legislation_for_lockheed_martin Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 An organization intended, in part, to assess coastal protection and geo-hazards seems, instead, to be working on behalf of Lockheed Martin.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~4/k4EpYxs74AM" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/sopac_expedites_new_seabed_mining_legislation_for_lockheed_martin http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~3/UHkxoKWK8_s/gm_seeds_and_the_militarization_of_food_-_and_everything_else http://www.fpif.org/articles/gm_seeds_and_the_militarization_of_food_-_and_everything_else Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:34:09 -0500 Dr. Vandana Shiva talks about GMOs, the militarization of agriculture, the politics of occupation, and the primacy of biodiversity.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~4/UHkxoKWK8_s" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/gm_seeds_and_the_militarization_of_food_-_and_everything_else http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~3/Yu48RrI4fGg/climate_change_as_historys_deal-breaker http://www.fpif.org/articles/climate_change_as_historys_deal-breaker Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:57:06 -0500 Climate change, global warming, extreme weather -- call it what you will -- is the obvious deal-breaker in human, if not planetary, history.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~4/Yu48RrI4fGg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/climate_change_as_historys_deal-breaker http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~3/xW2PZzftJ7E/what_next_for_the_green_climate_fund_after_the_doha_dud http://www.fpif.org/blog/what_next_for_the_green_climate_fund_after_the_doha_dud Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500 By refusing to make any firm commitments at the Doha summit to deliver money over the next decade, industrialized countries are effectively relegating the GCF to irrelevance.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~4/xW2PZzftJ7E" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/what_next_for_the_green_climate_fund_after_the_doha_dud http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~3/mToqNV5uy_A/towards_a_foreign_policy_for_the_99_percent http://www.fpif.org/articles/towards_a_foreign_policy_for_the_99_percent Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:28:01 -0500 There is a growing U.S. movement linking human and environmental needs with a demand to end our wars and liberate the vast resources they consume.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~4/mToqNV5uy_A" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/towards_a_foreign_policy_for_the_99_percent http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~3/CqV7RpgSCF4/not-broke-2012 http://www.fpif.org/reports/not-broke-2012 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:00:00 -0500 This commonsense guide to avoiding the fiscal swindle would nearly eliminate the budget deficit while making the United States more equitable, green, and secure.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~4/CqV7RpgSCF4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/reports/not-broke-2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~3/G276aUPjNj4/towards_a_grand_climate_compromise http://www.fpif.org/articles/towards_a_grand_climate_compromise Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:45:17 -0500 The climate conference in Doha is a diplomatic charade masquerading as a serious climate negotiation.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~4/G276aUPjNj4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/towards_a_grand_climate_compromise http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~3/KYCxNHdUm7A/lessons_of_sandy http://www.fpif.org/articles/lessons_of_sandy Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:32:52 -0500 Hurricane Sandy demonstrated that a natural disaster could quickly, if temporarily, downgrade a rich country to third-world status.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Environment/~4/KYCxNHdUm7A" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/lessons_of_sandy