Carbon Markets Don’t Work http://t.co/yefBsdj via @anirvan

Diabetes underestimated – 350 million people have it now and it’s set to dominate world health in future – http://t.co/5pmXE5m

San Francisco Art and Politics – a free newspaper that I don’t remember picking up, but pleased me to find in my slush pile this afternoon – presented some excellent covers from the 1970s periodical “Turnover: Newsletter of the People’s Food System”
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Raj think the second @feministhulk interview in Ms is smashing. http://t.co/VvL6uvM PS:Solve emphasis problem with *asterisks*?

Walmart judgment summarized by @DougHenwood : robed ghouls act in character: http://t.co/z8UAeAF

@AlisonBing I know, I know, but isn’t tendentiousness part of the art of tweeting? Also, where should folk look for good sust. tourism?

The present paradigm of intensive crop production cannot meet the challenges of the new millennium- so Save and Grow http://t.co/ZwNGRms

If someone is trying to sell you something, it’s worth substituting the word ‘bollocks’ for ’sustainable’ http://t.co/h3LTrHi

In general, if someone is trying to sell you something worthy, it’s worth substituting the word ‘bollocks’ for the word ’sustainable’. This is particularly true when it comes to tourism. In South Africa, for instance, sustainable tourism is the experience of driving across land that once used to belong to black people, on which they are now less welcome than the giraffes you’re there to see. When activists try to step out of this kind of ugliness by putting ourselves at the disposal of local social movements when travelling, we invariably cause more harm than good, diverting scarce resources to the tasks of babysitting, and chaperoning while shopping.

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Boom for Whom? Family farmers lose out, despite high prices http://t.co/iISZCr7