Main Navigation

Photo: benkamorvan

Main Content

Tag Archives: Barack Obama

The Decade of the Citizen

Posted By Halina Ward on 26th January, 2010

Adding to some of the themes explored in an earlier post on the idea of the ‘consumer citizen’, this post from guest blogger Jules Peck, over at Citizen Renaissance, argues that the mix between consumerism and citizen action for sustainable development…

Posted in Blog, consumption Also tagged citizenship, climate change, consumption Leave a comment

Ecologically viable civilisation now hinges on the workings of the US Constitution

Posted By Ian Christie on 6th November, 2009

The signs are that expectations for the Copenhagen climate conference are being seriously downgraded. There is so much disagreement still, and so much uncertainty about when and whether the USA will make substantial commitments, that a binding global deal at…

Posted in Blog, climate change Also tagged climate change, US Leave a comment

Democracy and climate change

Posted By Halina Ward on 23rd August, 2009

In the US, opposition to the Climate Bill has shown just how hard it can be to get popular support for much-needed measures to put economies on track to head off the worst effects of climate change.

The US model of…