Energy

How I joined the 15 foot high club January 2012
Camilla Berens describes her most empowering experience of direct action

Fueling an oily future November 2011
Art activists Platform look at BP's sponsorship of the Olympics

South Africa: Power to the people September 2011
Bobby Peek tells how the struggle for environmental rights is intertwined with the one over access to energy

Nuclear power? It’s still no thanks September 2010
Nuclear is no green alternative, writes Oscar Reyes

An indigenous Rubicon August 2009
While climate jargon-fuelled meetings like the recent Bonn talks happen at the global level, examples of local resistance remind us what dealing with climate change is really about. The indigenous peoples' struggle in Peru against the colonisation of their lands by polluting industries is one such example, writes Joanna Cabello

Shell to Sea December 2008
Andy Bowman examines the global links and networks being built by Irish anti-Shell activists

Agrofuels: are we winning? October 2008
With mounting evidence of environmental damage and grave social consequences, making fuel from plants no longer seems such a good idea. But is the widespread criticism of agrofuels forcing policy changes? Oscar Reyes investigates

The green goldrush August 2008
It is a long time since activists spray painted ‘We are winning’ on a wall at the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organisation in December 1999. Movements for global justice have had little to celebrate since then. Will things be any different for the ‘carbon movement’ that is emerging around the Climate Camp – [...]

The end of the world as we know it August 2008
As fuel prices rocket, a new world energy order is emerging. It will bring with it a fierce international competition for dwindling stocks of oil, natural gas, coal and uranium, and also an epochal shift in power and wealth from energy-deficit states such as the US, Japan and the newly-industrialising China to energy-surplus states such as Russia, Venezuela and the oil producers of the Middle East. Michael Klare examines the likely consequences of the growing competition for the soon-to-be diminishing supply of energy

Occupation without troops November 2007
The US and UK governments, the IMF and oil corporations are behind Iraq's proposed Hydrocarbon Law, which would effectively privatise Iraqi oil. Becca Fisher investigates

Agro-fooling ourselves October 2007
EU and US targets and subsidies are fuelling a growing demand for 'agrofuels'. Far from being a sustainable energy source, the increased cultivation of crops for fuel threatens the world's poor with starvation, damages biodiversity and even contributes to global warming, argues Oscar Reyes

The sting in the bio-buzz March 2007
The EU’s new targets for biofuel use will result in the destruction of forests and livelihoods in the global South without a clear environmental gain, writes Jutta Kill

Fissile fantasies June 2006
The nuclear industry has always had something of the absurd about it. Efforts to recover its lost glory by painting itself green is just the latest example of this.

(Micro)power for the people September 2005
It's been described as the environmental equivalent of "the leap from the steam engine to the diesel locomotive". Melanie Jarman considers whether a shift to micropower generation is the solution to climate change

Why planting trees for carbon guilt doesn’t add up March 2005
Dirty, dangerous and financially unviable, nuclear power could never help in the battle to forestall climate change

Back to the post-oil future February 2005
The imminent demise of the global petroleum industry will necessarily entail a complete redesign of industrial societies.

Energy independence and the American dream October 2004
Both Kerry and Bush recognise the need for alternatives to fossil fuels. Yet neither show any desire to address the US's bulimic consumption patterns.

The end of the oil age May 2004
Fossil fuel companies are about to become industrial dinosaurs. Efforts to postpone their extinction would only accelerate the overheating of the planet.

The Devil’s tears May 2004
In Azerbaijan, oil is known as the Devil's tears - a curse for the desperately poor Azeris and a blessing for their autocratic rulers. Satan cried a lot in this former Soviet satellite state on the west coast of the Caspian Sea. His tears were mostly shed offshore.