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Climate Factsheets

To contribute to a broader public understanding of the present state of climate science, a series of factsheets clearly set out the evidence for anthropogenic global warming and its interaction with various climatic events, such as wildfires, droughts and flooding. By the Public Research Interest Centre.

Trade and Development Report, 2012

A United Nations report slams 30 years of global policies and ineffective recent austerity measures, arguing that reducing the widening gap between the rich and poor is not only necessary for social justice, but is also a precondition for sound economic growth. By UNCTAD.

Growth or Equality: Two Competing Visions for America’s Future

Contrary to the incessant mantra of economists, politicians, and media pundits, economic growth is not the solution to what ails us. Our prime need is for a more intelligent distribution of the wealth we have—giving social and environmental returns priority over financial returns, argues David Korten.

Statement on Transforming Finance Based on Life's Principles

Financial experts, warning of future crises, call for re-affirming finance as a global commons, first recognized at Bretton Woods in 1945. The Transforming Finance group, as beneficiaries and active participants in global capital markets, affirm their responsibility to reform finance in a signed statement.

What You Need to Know About a Worldwide Corporate Power Grab of Enormous Proportions

The corporate cabal behind a new trade agreement including Cargill, Pfizer, Nike and WalMart, has done an exceptional job of maintaining an almost total lack of transparency as they literally design the future we will all inhabit, writes Laurel Sutherlin.

The Simplicity Exercises: A Sourcebook for Simplicity Educators

Living simply in a consumer society isn't easy, hence a new book brings many learning tools together in one place so that educators who want to share the rewards and potentials of simple living with others may have some grist for their own creative mills. By Mark A. Burch.

Poverty as a Human Rights Violation

If a proposal from Magdalena Sepúlveda - special rapporteur on human rights and extreme poverty - is approved by the United Nations Human Rights Council this month, eradicating poverty shall not only be a moral duty, but a legal obligation, acccording to Roberto Bissio.

Revisiting the Stiglitz Commission Report

The Commission of Experts of the UN General Assembly President in 2009, chaired by the Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, presented its report to the UN but little of its recommendations were followed up. Below is an extract of a paper that summarises and comments on the Commission’s report, by Yash Tandon.

Interviewed: David Harvey on Rebel Cities

If people cannot freely use the public and supposedly “common” spaces of the city, then it is critical that movements emerge to liberate those common spaces for their participation. Such movements can provide a vital opening for a broader common politics, explains David Harvey in an interview with Chris Carlsson.

Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative - Oxford Declaration

In a declaration from the GCGI's 10th Annual Conference, 'Sharing the Wisdom, Shaping the Dream: Reclaiming the Moral and Spiritual Roots of Economics and Capitalism', a group of activists, economists, academics and members of the business community unanimously agreed on the urgent need to create an equitable and sustainable world for the common good of all.

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