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GreenTech Announces Its Name Change and the Acquisition of Affordable Solar GreenTech Solar originally founded in 2008 is pleased to announce today that it has changed its name to GreenTech Energy Although this is a minor change to our

BREAKING - an bill has been introduced in Argentina's Chamber of Deputies! 🇦🇷

The bill was put forward by the Argentine MP Margarita Stolbizer (Partido GEN) and includes the 2021 Independent Expert Panel consensus definition of ecocide.

FULL STORY 👉 https://www.stopecocide.earth/bn-2025/argentina-a-bill-on-ecocide-introduced-in-the-chamber-of-deputies

The introduction of the bill signifies another major development for in the Latin America region.

Damage comparable to ecocide has already been criminalised in and proposals for the criminalisation of ecocide have been introduced in and ’s parliaments!

Learn more: https://www.stopecocide.earth/leading-states

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Nirmal Jivan Shah on LinkedIn: Geopolitics is a significant barrier to effective climate action, as… Geopolitics is a significant barrier to effective climate action, as demonstrated at the recent Cop29 in Azerbaijan. With world leaders preoccupied by…

Rule based order? I Think Not - Mob Rule Rather

Why is Israel's PM not under arrest? Because US congress issued threats to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Today, the president of ICC spoke to entire UN: "the Court has been subject to unprecedented levels of threats, pressures & coercive measures which pose a serious threat to the administration of justice by the Court: “ https://lnkd.in/gjc7wRfT

Like most UN institutions they avoid mentioning names and blame games. However, below interview reveals that US congress is behind the threats: “So this bill you voted for, It didn't just go after ICC officials, but also quote the immediate family members of ICC officials. That is mob like behavior … By putting sanctions on ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan's two adult sons. What did they do wrong?” https://lnkd.in/gUwcrv7x

In addition to the bill voted by the US congress, a group of senators signed a public threat to ICC saying “Target Israel and we will target you... You have been warned.” https://lnkd.in/ghCNG85F Some senior US leader told ICC: "The Hague is for 'Africans and thugs like Putin'" https://lnkd.in/g32tHpY6

When diplomats talk about a "Rule based order", they don't mean International Law as established by the UN, but rather as Rule by an Empire. This is the times we live at the moment.

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International Conference:
ISLANDS AND ISLAND STUDIES 2025
Visions, strategies and local projects
Organised by the Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies (JICAS) in collaboration with Shima and the Small Island Cultures Research Initiative (SICRI)
Venue: JICAS, Jersey - Dates: June 3rd-7th 2025
The interdisciplinary field of Island Studies began in the early 1990s with the establishment of ISISA (the International Small Islands Studies Association). The field was subsequently enhanced through the formation of SICRI (the Small Island Cultures Research Initiative) in 2005, and with the establishment of a number of academic periodicals, including Island Studies Journal (in 2006), Shima (2007), The Journal of Marine and Island Cultures (2012) and the Okinawan Journal of Island Studies (2020). Organisations such as Island Innovation (founded in 2018) have also pursued collaborative research, development and dialogue between and for islanders.
The Islands and Island Studies 2025 conference will provide an opportunity for researchers, administrators, policy makers and islanders to explore key questions concerning island societies and jurisdictions in the early 21st Century and to review research in the field to date.
The conference will comprise 3 plenary sessions and two parallel panel strands.
Plenary #1 – Lessons from and challenges for Jersey – featuring contributions from Jersey government officers and representatives of local organisations.
Plenary #2 – Two decades of Island Studies as represented in its journals – featuring presentations from journal editors Philip Hayward (Shima), Sun-Kee Hong (The Journal of Marine and Island Cultures), Ayano Ginoza (Okinawan Journal of Island Studies) and Su Ping (Island Studies Journal) + response by Dr Jonathan Pugh (Professor of island Studies, Newcastle University, UK) (tbc).
Plenary #3 – New Voices in Island Studies (programmed by SICRI) – featuring presentations from six emerging island Studies scholars.
Proposals for panels and/or individual papers for the parallel strands are welcome on the following topics:
Issues in Island Studies
Research collaborations with island communities
Island cultures in periods of transition
Island societies, climate change and the Anthropocene
The conference will commence with an early evening reception on June 3rd, there will be three full days of panels and papers on June 4th-6th and a study trip on June 7th.
Proposals should be submitted to [email protected] by November 1st 2024 and notifications of acceptance will be issued by December 10th 2024. Any inquiries as to the suitability of proposed topics etc., can be sent to Philip Hayward (on behalf on conference organising committee) at [email protected]
Conference Registration Fee (includes conference receptions, lunches and refreshments): UK 175 pounds.
Information about accommodation deals for delegates will be posted on conference website in November: https://shimajournal.org/conferences.php

We’ve got a brand-new logo and website! 🌳📢

Make sure to take a look around! ➡️ https://ow.ly/MXCw50Thbqb

All the beautiful illustration work by the extremely talented Stu Mclellan.

Barbados' PM Drops a BOMBSHELL, Sending Shockwaves Across the West!

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"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time --when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

~Carl Sagan
"The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"

Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to one charge for violating the Espionage Act. “Whether you see Assange as a ‘fallen man’ depends on how you viewed him to begin with,” Raffi Khatchadourian wrote, in 2017. “He has detractors who believe that he is a criminal, or a maniac, or both, and supporters who consider him an immaculate revolutionary.” Revisit a Profile of the WikiLeaks founder, from 2017: http://nyer.cm/opaXM2D

The 3M Corporation sells everything from sandpaper to kitchen sponges; it invented Scotch Tape and Post-it notes. Several of the company’s most successful products contained man-made compounds called fluorochemicals, which are astonishingly versatile, in part because they resist oil, water, and heat. They are also incredibly long-lasting, earning them the moniker “forever chemicals.”

In the late 1970s, however, 3M scientists established that one of the company’s forever chemicals, PFOS, was toxic in animals and was accumulating in humans. 3M continued to produce millions of pounds of it per year. Between 1951 and 2000, 3M produced at least 100 million pounds of PFOS and chemicals that degrade into PFOS. This is roughly the weight of the Titanic. Scientists are still struggling to grasp all of the biological consequences. They have learned, just as one 3M scientist did decades ago, that proteins in the body bind to PFOS. It enters our cells and organs, where even tiny amounts can cause stress and interfere with basic biological functions. The company and its scientists have not admitted wrongdoing or faced criminal liability for producing these chemicals or for concealing their harms.

Sharon Lerner has been reporting on forever chemicals for nearly a decade. Much of her work focussed on what the companies knew, even as they continued to produce the chemicals. “But, as I reported on the coverup, I wondered what it meant for a sprawling multinational company to know that its products were dangerous,” she writes. “Who knew? How much, exactly, did they know? And how had the company kept its secret?” In a new investigation, she speaks with former corporate scientists who realized, decades ago, that PFOS was in the general public’s blood. It “wasn’t something anyone cared to hear,” one said. “It wasn’t for me to jump up and start saying, ‘This is bullsh*t!’ ”

Read about how 3M employees discovered—and then helped to conceal—the dangers of the forever chemicals their company created: http://nyer.cm/QwNFnCd

Lecture by Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados

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A Lecture by Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados | LSE Events Mia Amor Mottley became Barbados' eighth and first female Prime Minister on May 25, 2018.Ms Mottley was elected to the Parliament of Barbados in September 19...

Exclusive interview with Barbados' PM Mia Mottley

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Exclusive interview with Barbados' PM Mia Mottley For more:https://www.cgtn.com/videoLocated in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, Barbados is an island country famous for its stunning landscape and it...

As Terrence Long has stated, Dumped Monitions, ‘disposed’ of beginning at the end of World War One, and World War Two and continued ever since, are having long term environmental consequences when the chemicals (chemical weapons or high explosives) start leaking from corroding shell, missiles or mines. I have been reliably informed that at least one Baltic nation state has warned their citizens from consuming sea food.

See:

International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions IDUM Organizational Profile June 2020Download OUR MISSION OUR GOALS "Our mission is to promote the creation of an Internationally Binding Treaty on all classes (biological, chemical, conventional, and radiological)of underwater munitions, to lead to the cleanup of our seas and oceans worldwide." Cre...

Deep sea mining: Into the deep | 60 Minutes Archive

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Deep sea mining: Into the deep | 60 Minutes Archive Rare earth elements and metals used to make cellphones, supercomputers and more are sitting on the ocean floor, ready to be mined by multiple countries. In 2...

Launched at the United Nations Environment Assembly ( ) in , the : A Covenant for the Earth charter, has been drafted by leading Islamic eco-theologians and practitioners from around the world.

The charter creates a comprehensive Islamic framework on ecological and moral responsibility, urging collective action for the protection of our planet and states: “The enormity of the crime of ecocide – the extirpation of entire ecosystems, communities of species, including our own – can best be appreciated by considering the horrors of genocide – the extirpation of ethnicities and cultures. Crimes against the creation – al-khalq, al-‘ālamīn – are analogous to crimes against humanity and are no less grave. This kind of corruption in the Earth has yet to be recognised, litigated, and penalised in national and international legislation.”

More: https://www.stopecocide.earth/2024/new-islamic-charter-calls-ecocide-analogous-to-crimes-against-humanity

The European Union has become the first international body to criminalise the most serious cases of environmental damage that are “comparable to ”.

Ecosystem destruction, including habitat loss and illegal logging, will be punished with tougher penalties and prison sentences under the EU’s updated environmental crime directive.

The European Parliament has voted through the tougher law today (27 February) after countries reached an agreement in November. Member states will then have two years to enshrine it in national law.

Read the Euronews Green article here: https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/27/revolutionary-eu-criminalises-the-most-serious-cases-of-ecosystem-destruction