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Don't Mention the Climate Debt
I just attended an excellent report-back from the Copenhagen climate talks fiasco. The speakers included Payal Parekh, climate director from...
Smart Profs, Teabagger Administrators. UC Berkeley proposes shutting invaluable water library
Across the road from the International Rivers office, on the UC Berkeley campus, is the Water Resources Center Archives, an...
Offsets and the Truthy Targets of Waxman-Markey
[Truthiness: The quality of seeming to be true, even if this contradicts evidence or rational thought – http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/truthiness] Explanations of...
Spreadsheet Showing Impacts of Offsets Upon ACES Targets
This spreadsheet shows the impact upon the targets in the Waxman-Markey climate bill of allowing pulluters to use up to...
Leading Socially Responsible Investor Joins Advocates in Call to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders
MONDAY, APRIL 27 Shelley Alpern (Trillium), (617) 292-8026 x. 248 Bama Athreya (ILRF) 202-347-4100 Patrick McCully (International Rivers) 510-848-1155 Leading...
Berkshire Hathaway Sustainability Report Resolution
International Rivers, together with the International Labor Rights Forum, is urging shareholders in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Corp. to support...
Mourning the Loss of Life-Long Activist, and Friend, Smitu Kothari
I am greatly saddened by the news that Indian scholar-activist Smitu Kothari died on Monday morning of a cardiac arrest....
Bad Day in Congress for the CDM
The Clean Development Mechanism got lambasted at yesterday's US Congressional hearing on the "potential role of offsets as a cost-containment...
Barack Obama and the River of Hope
“To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean...
US Congress Nixes Funding for World Bank Coal Fund
A succession of good news on climate from Washington last week. Obama's proposed budget includes a carbon cap with full...