El Proyecto hidroeléctrico Díquis entra en conflicto directo con la cosmovisión y derechos de los pueblos originarios de nuestro país, además de que es claro ejemplo de una nula participación ciudadana de la comunidad donde se desarrollaría. 

Publicado originalmente el viernes 3 de mayo, durante la visita de Obama a Costa Rica Los intereses comerciales de la visita La visita del presidente de los Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, se puede analizar desde múltiples ángulos, todos ellos válidos y necesarios para lograr un entendimiento lo más amplio posible de lo que ello significa. Ya se [...]

De cómo la escasez de recursos y el cambio climático podrían producir una explosión global Prepárense. Puede que aún no se lo digan, pero, según los expertos de todo el mundo y la comunidad de la inteligencia estadounidense, la tierra está cambiando ya bajo sus pies. Lo sepan o no, Vds. están sobre un planeta diferente, [...]

A unanimous Los Angeles City Council has demanded the Nuclear Regulatory Commission conduct extended investigations before any restart at the San Onofre atomic power plant. The move reflects a deep-rooted public opposition to resumed operations at reactors perched in a tsunami zone near earthquake faults that threaten all of southern California.

How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the U.S. intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you.  Whether you know it or not, you’re on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort [...]

On this Earth Day, those of us fighting for climate justice and an end to the world’s fossil fuel domination should take heart from the struggle against slavery. Imagine for a moment that it is 1858 and you are an abolitionist. Talk about discouragement: The previous year, in its Dred Scott decision, the U.S. Supreme Court [...]

Fossil fuel companies’ bet that climate agreements won’t stop them from burning carbon puts pension funds at risk     Suppose you weren’t worried that we humans are destroying our water supply and eroding our ability to feed ourselves by burning coal and gas and oil and hence changing climate. Suppose you thought that was all liberal hooey. [...]

Una veintena de organizaciones ecologistas y más de 50 personalidades de Costa Rica, rechazaron la mutilación de mil hectáreas del Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja, en Guanacaste, para producir energía geotérmica. 

The Strategic Importance of Keystone XL Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns. Such is the case with the Keystone XL pipeline, which, if built, is slated to bring some of the “dirtiest,” carbon-rich oil [...]

Megatrends, Game-Changers, Black Swans, Tectonic Shifts, and a World Not That Different From 2012 Think of it as a simple formula: if you’ve been hired (and paid handsomely) to protect what is, you’re going to be congenitally ill-equipped to imagine what might be.  And yet the urge not just to know the contours of the [...]