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The reading of the speech/ essay LINK Wikipedia LINK In “My Seditious Heart,” Roy rides to battle against a host of troubles. Most frequently, she criticizes India’s fondness for big dams, and its cruelty to the people displaced by them. She lambasts the American imperium and its souped-up capitalism, multinational institutions like the World Bank,…

SNOMED – https://www.snomed.org/ SNOMED International determines global standards for health terms, an essential part of improving the health of humankind. Climate Movements: “Social movements are large-scale, organized efforts to achieve a social or political goal. Climate movements are specifically focused on advocating for policy, economic, and cultural shifts to tackle climate change. Social movements are…

Inflation Reduction Act President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has changed the battery landscape in the US, leading to a gigafactory building boom that has increased forecast battery capacity by two thirds, according to Benchmark. LINK Global Climate Impacts: 40% 2030, Net Zero by 2050 Various sources What the White House is saying: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/17/what-they-are-saying-one-year-anniversary-of-the-inflation-reduction-act/ Tracking the…

“Every year we dump a massive 2.12 billion tons of waste. If all this waste was put on trucks they would go around the world 24 times. This stunning amount of waste is partly because 99 percent of the stuff we buy is trashed within 6 months.” LINK Right to Repair European Commission: LINK Overview…

Once the financing is taken care of, the scientists, technocrats, contractors, and much of the public presumes the project has all the necessary clearances. The foreign capital legitimizes the process. Lenders like the World Bank bring their own credibility, among the elite and planning population, and then people say, “Who are you to know better…

The EJAtlas takes seriously the belief that the peasants, the polluted, the workers, the indigenous are not a minority, and are neither simply victims nor spectators but that they constitute the driving force behind the necessary sustainability transformation.  Temper, L., Demaria, F., Scheidel, A. et al. The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces…

You could say that my first politics was feminism. The second was caste politics. It is one of the fundamental postulates on which I have built my life—a woman must have a place where she can express herself with freedom. You could say that my first politics was feminism. The second was caste politics. My…

What is Ontology? SNOMED is an ontology, a systematic classification of medical terms. OR Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine. It is a standardized, international, multilingual core set of clinical healthcare terminology that can be used in electronic health records (EHRs). LINK What is ontology of place? What are the ontologies of place – the places that…

List of Readings Video Vandana Shiva is an Indian physicist, environmental activist and anti-globalisation author. She has been described as ‘the most powerful voice’ for people of the developing world. Her work links the destruction of nature, the polarisation of societies and indiscriminate corporate greed, and her memoir, Terra Viva, reflects on her decades of work…

How to Practice Bearing Witness How to Practice Bearing Witness – Lions Roar Global Witness About: Taking on governments & companies fuelling climate crisis and undermining human rights | Global Witness | Global Witness Annual Report: Annual report 2021: our case for change | Global Witness Podcast: Defenders of the Earth, “In every story of…