Energy

India is implementing active measures to combat its ever-growing rise in energy consumption

October 2010

Even with increases in energy efficiency, and despite the 45 percent who have no electricity connection - India's policy goal to quadruple energy consumption by 2032 represents a catestrophic GDP-ism focused on destructive models of development.

Twenty-first century energy superpower

September 2010

Michael Klare

As the worlds new leading energy consumer, China's choice of energy strategy over the coming years will have defining implications for international relations and the fate of the environment.

Agrofuels: Big Profits, Ruined Lives and Ecological Destruction

June 2010

François Houtart

The green potential of agrofuels has been wasted by businesses that put profits above environmental protection, which has led to an absurd situation where an energy source that should be sustainable actually increases human and ecological damage.

Dangerous nuclear delusion

May 2010

Praful Bidwai

Small farmers are being driven off their land in Maharashtra to make way for the Indian government's planned "nuclear park" - to be built by the French company AREVA. Yet, nuclear energy is notoriously slow, costly, inefficient and dangerous to develop, as demonstrated by a global decline in...