1. Appalachia Rising
   Which Side Are You On?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   On January 9, 2014, a dangerous toxin, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, leaked from a busted tank and into the Elk River in West Virginia. It is believed that nearly 7,500 gallons of the toxin made its way from the 40,000-gallon tank into the river. This is a story too often told in Appalachia.
2. Bangladesh: Of Disasters and a Disastrous Development
   Resource Type: Article
   Dispossession, disparities in land distribution, and inappropriate development strategies in Bangladesh.
3. Canary Islands vs. Big Oil
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Thousands of Canary Islands residents and activists have begun campaigning against Spanish oil company Repsol, and the potential oil spill that could devastate the wildlife and tourist and fishing industries.
4. CHF
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
5. Citizens for Public Justice
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
6. Climate Change as a Class Issue
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Protesting PNC Bank in Pittsburgh financing of mountain-top removal (MTR) coal mining across Appalachia. MTR causes increased cancer rates and birth defects, as well as massive environmental degradation.
7. ClimateFast
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   ClimateFast is a group of dedicated climate activists, deeply concerned about worsening climate change. Our aim is to draw the public's attention to the crisis, and by fasting and public pledges to press our politicians into action NOW to confront this greatest threat to our children's future.
8. Connexions
   Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1981
   
9. Connexions Digest
   Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1988
   
10. Cotton-pickin trade
    US and European growers receive government subsidies while farmers in Mali struggle to survive on 300$ a year
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Inequity in the global tradiing system of cotton means that farmers in West Africa struggle to survive. International prices have been driven down by subsidies and disproportionately disadvantage the poorest producers. The author inteviews these farmers and investigates the benefits of fair trade cotton in West Africa to the producers and their communities.
11. Notebook: Toward a Second Haitian Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A historical review of economic policy in Haiti since its independence, and the impact of its smallholder's disposession by US policies that sought to 'liberalize' the economy. The author advocates investment in subsistence farming rather than spending foreign aid on foreign imports in the wake of the earthquake.
12. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
13. Zatoun
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    

Experts on Poverty & Environmental Degradation in the Sources Directory

1. Zatoun