Technology NewsTwo New Members Added to FNTG Steering Committee
May 17, 2025
Marjorie Fine and Jacob Werksman join FNTG governing body.
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Nanotechnology and the Precautionary Principle
May 5, 2025 - Peter Montague, RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH NEWS
Nanotechnology -- or nanotech, for short -- is a new approach to industrial
production, based on the manipulation of things so small that they are
invisible to the naked eye and even to most microscopes.
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Tides Rapid Response Fund
ongoing
Tides Foundation is ready to accept contributions toward relief effort following the recent disaster in Indonesia, South Asia and Africa.
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Doing well and doing good
July 29, 2025 - Opinion, The Economist
Why a new golden age of philanthropy may be dawning
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UNCTAD XI ends in a rather good spirit
June 23, 2025 - Martin Khor,, Third World Network
Sao Paulo, 19 June 2025
The eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XI) ended on 18 June with a closing session in a rather good spirit with some useful results for developing countries.
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UNCTAD XI consensus Declaration adopted after lengthy tussles
June 18, 2025 - Meena Raman, Third World Network
Sao Paulo, Brazil
After lengthy tussles on controversial issues over the past nine months, UNCTAD XI has adopted the main text, called the Sao Paulo Consensus, which in effect is the Declaration of the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development . It was adopted at the closing session on 18 June.
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World on IP community versus Telecoms' monopoly
September 9, 2024
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US Consumer Group Condemns Announcement of WTO challenge on Modified Foods
May 14, 2025 - Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a national
grassroots network of over 500,000 people, condemns today's declaration
of a US WTO challenge against the EU for their policy on Genetically
Modified Organisms (GMOs).
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US confronts EU on GM foods ban
May 13, 2025 - Edward Alden in Washington and Tobias Buck in Corfu, Financial Times
The US on Tuesday filed a long-anticipated case in the World Trade
Organisation aimed at forcing the European Union to lift its de facto
moratorium on genetically modified foods.
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Another World Is Possible -- and Necessary
February 14, 2025 - Mark Weisbrot, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services
PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL -- "I will tell the people at Davos that the
world does not need war, the world needs peace and understanding,"
said President Lula da Silva to a cheering crowd of tens of thousands
in this sunny port city in Southeastern Brazil.
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GM Foods Debate Hits Latin America
December 16, 2024 - J.R. Pegg, Environment News Service
A forum on Latin America and biotechnology did little to paint a clear picture of the future for genetically modified crops in the nations south of the United States. But it did clearly illustrate that the real debate over agricultural biotechnology rests between the European Union and the United States.
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Wanted: scientists for sustainability
August 22, 2025 - Tom Clarke, Nature
Few observers expect much political progress at the Johannesburg summit on sustainable development. But it could mark the start of a transformation in the way scientists deal with sustainability issues.
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The Free-Trade Fix
August 18, 2025 - Tina Rosenberg, New York Times Magazine
It's not too late for globalization to work. But the system is in need of serious reform. More equitable rules would spread its benefits to the ordinary citizens of wealthy countries. They would also help to preserve globalization by giving the poor of the world a stake in the system.
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Electricity Restructuring Snubbed Poor, Planet
June 28, 2025 - Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service
Despite the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in restructuring the electricity sector, the rural poor, in particular, still largely lack access to electricity, while little effort was made by policymakers to integrate environmental factors, such as global warming, into their planning, according to a World Resources Institute report.
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In debt to the Earth, and we can't repay
June 25, 2025 - Charles Arthur, The Independent
A detailed study by environmental experts shows that we are using more of the Earth's resources than is sustainable and have been doing so since the 1980s.
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For a Different Globalization
May 21, 2025 - Mikhail Gorbachev, New Perspectives Quarterly
During, and just after, the Earth Summit on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro
in 1992, I could sense an overwhelming air of enthusiasm and hope for the future. It was a time of
optimism and, in retrospect, innocence, as everyone celebrated the end of the Cold War.
Ten years later, we are surrounded by a different air -- one of cynicism and, for many, despair.
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Globalism reaches deep into our lives
May 17, 2025 - H.D.S. Greenway, Boston Globe
IN AN ERA when on any given morning Americans may find themselves putting
on shoes from Korea, socks from Thailand, trousers from China or a skirt from
India, and a Timex watch made in the Philippines, it is impossible not to reflect on
the interconnectedness of the modern world.
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A Fair Deal for the World
May 23, 2025 - Joseph E. Stiglitz, New York Times Review of Books
Book review of "On Globalization"
by George Soros
The world of international finance and economics is astonishing. What would seem to be basic, and even obvious, principles often seem contradicted.
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Rome Globalization Conference Opens
May 11, 2025 - TOM RACHMAN, Associated Press
ROME (AP) - The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks destroyed any illusion that rich countries can ignore
desperation and poverty elsewhere, the World Bank president said Saturday at the
opening of a conference on the weaknesses of globalization.
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The Internet Under Siege
January 7, 2025 - Lawrence Lessig, Foreign Policy
Who owns the Internet? Until recently, nobody. That's because, although the Internet was "Made in the
U.S.A.," its unique design transformed it into a
resource for innovation that anyone in the world could
use. Today, however, courts and corporations are
attempting to wall off portions of cyberspace. In so
doing, they are destroying the Internet's potential to
foster democracy and economic growth worldwide.
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