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Environmental Initiatives/Corporate AlterLinks Topic Index Americas Radical, Underground Climate Change Countermovement Smoking Out the Kochs Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The year is 2050; rising seas have inundated Miami, America’s most recent ghost city since Detroit. A deadly heat wave scorches Chicago, killing thousands of elderly, and a mega-drought has farmers in the Southwest on their knees, praying for relief, as a dreadful dustbowl blankets the fields. America goes hungry. At the crossroads between 'Green Economy' and rights of nature Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Under the rhetoric of "green economy", capitalists are actually attempting to use nature as capital, proposing unconvincingly that the only way to preserve natural elements such as water and forests is through private investment. Canadian lawyers and Chevron's court battle over environmental damage in Ecuador Iler, Kirsten Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A storm of controversy erupted amongst Canadian lawyers when the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) decided to intervene in Chevron's appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The appeal is part of Chevron's battle against Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples who seek to enforce a massive court judgment against the company for environmental damage in Ecuador. Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations Processes of Creative Self-Destruction Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 The authors examine the intricate relationship between corporations and climate change, while also looking at how corporations shape political and social responses to climate change. The Collaboration Trap Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Most of environmental/conservation groups in the West are participants in various public land collaboratives.Most participating collaborative members are made up of people who generally believe in exploiting natural landscapes for human benefit. As a generalization, there is overwhelming representation in such collaboratives by people who speak for the resource extraction industry or their sympathizers like rural county commissioners, ORV enthusiasts, and so forth. Connexions Digest Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990 Corporate money preventing all-out campaign to stop global warming Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Highly-regarded former Toronto Mayor David Miller says he is "very excited" about becoming the new President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada in September. But there are questions about whether the WWF is effective in its work and, moreover, why the WWF and other members of the global environmental movement have made such little progress combatting the most serious threat to earth - climate change. Earth Day Canada Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization Edelman's TransCanada Astroturf Documents Expose Oil Industry's Broad Attack on Public Interest Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The Edelman strategy documents and work proposals outline a "grassroots advocacy" campaign plan to build support for TransCanada's Energy East pipeline as well as to undermine public opposition to oil and pipelines generally. Documents obtained by Greenpeace detail a desperate astroturf PR strategy designed by Edelman for TransCanada to win public support for its Energy East tar sands export pipeline. TransCanada has failed for years to win approval of the controversial border-crossing Keystone XL pipeline, so apparently the company has decided to "win ugly or lose pretty" with an aggressive public relations attack on its opponents. EnvironmentSources.com Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information. Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s state unequivocally "there is no doubt" that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing "problem" well understood within the company. Greenwash The Reality Behind Corporate Environmentalism Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 How Big Oil Plans to Win Ugly in New York Leaked Transcript from PR Maven Shows Energy Companies will be Told to Make the Fight Against Fracking Opponents Personal Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A PR firm well known for its hardball tactics in defense of Big Tobacco will deliver the keynote address at tonight’s Independent Oil and Gas Association conference. How Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 In August 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit distributed an intelligence bulletin to all field offices warning that environmental extremism would likely become an increasing threat to the energy industry. The eight-page document argued that, even though the industry had encountered only low-level vandalism and trespassing, recent "criminal incidents" suggested that environmental extremism was on the rise. Inhance Mutual Funds Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization Leaked TTIP papers reveal 100% corporate sellout Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Secret documents leaked to Greenpeace from the EU-US TTIP negotiations show that environmental protection, climate change mitigation, consumer protection, public health and sustainability are sacrificed throughout to corporate profit and commercial interests. The Myths of 'Green Capitalism' A system based on the accumulation of capital without restraint will require unsustainable growth, however cleverly we measure our ecologica Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Environmental politics in the U.S. appears hopelessly polarized. Liberals and progressives try to sustain and occasionally strengthen environmental legislation, while those on the right are unalterably opposed, even seeking to defund core institutions such as the EPA. Nature Conservancy of Canada Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization Plenty of work to do, but still lots to be thankful for! Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 As Thanksgiving approaches and we gather with friends and family for the annual feast, we recognize in our lives that there are a number of things we can and should be thankful for. Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Rick Berman, the king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements. Berman specializes in setting up pro-corporate front groups to attack grassroots citizen groups. Berman advocates and practises a range of dirty tactics and propaganda techniques. Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights Resource Type: Audio Published: 2014 The king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements, including on efforts to increase the minimum wage for workers. Selling Modernity: How Global Greenwashing is Destroying Tribal People Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (APECO) in Casiguran, the Philippines, is a 12,923 hectare area currently being developed into a self-sufficient commercial hub and special economic zone.If completed, APECO will strip 3,000 small farms and indigenous Agta households of their land. Tar sands campaigners are Canada's new 'terrorists' Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Canada's Harper government has targeted as a new crime being a member of an 'anti-Canadian petroleum movement', and equating such a stance with terrorism. TransCanada hires controversial PR firm to derail opposition to Energy East pipeline Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 There are now multiple news articles that report Calgary-based TransCanada hired the controversial public relations firm Edelman in an attempt to derail growing public opposition to its proposed 1.1 million barrels per day Energy East tar sands pipeline. Transportation Association of Canada Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization The Yes Men Are Revolting Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2014 A documentary film about The Yes Men, a culture jamming duo who use the aliases Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. The film follows their exploits as they prank various organizations and corporations who engage in climate change denial.

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