Deep Ecology

Profile of the tireless Rosa Maria Chan and the team of ProPeten, one of Guatemala’s most important environmental organizations. The group is working to give Mayan communities a sustainable economic alternative that will help re-establish forests in this troubled region, which comprises a third of Guatemala. Home to Tikal, this was the heart of the ancient Mayan kingdom; now it’s succumbing to pressure from cattle ranchers, multinationals buying up land for oil palm and the impoverished Mayans themselves. Read the story at www.TheEsperanzaProject.org.

Full lecture on Bookchin’s “Social Ecology”. San Francisco, 1985

Representatives of BioJustice 2007 addressed the crowd gathered

The Baiji population declined drastically in recent decades as China industrialized and made heavy use of the river for fishing, transportation, and hydroelectricity. Efforts were made to conserve the species, but a late 2006 expedition failed to find any Baiji in the river. Organizers declared the Baiji “functionally extinct”,which would make it the first aquatic mammal species to become extinct since the demise of the Japanese Sea Lion and the Caribbean Monk Seal in the 1950s. It would also be the first recorded extinction of a well-studied cetacean species (it is unclear if some previously extinct varieties were species or subspecies) to be directly attributable to human influence.

Taken from: www.audioanarchy.org Raoul Vaneigem (1934-) is one of the original Situationist philosophers and participated in the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970. He is best known for his book “The Revolution of Everyday Life”.