Here follows the final statement of the 2020 Ecosocialist Conference for Climate Justice, which took place online last week: The corona pandemic has exposed the fragility of the neoliberal global economy. We will face yet another wave of austerity and unemployment, as pro-business governments raise taxes and slash spending, just as they did after the financial crash of 2008. … [Read more...]
New project aims to capture oral Bushman traditions
The Cape Bush Doctors (CBD) are currently trying to raise funds for a project that will use digital technology to record the threatened and vastly disappearing oral traditions of the San healers and 'shamans' in their own words. The Cape Bush Doctors/Kaapse Bossiedokters main objective is the formalization, protection and restitution of Southern African indigenous healers … [Read more...]
E-marketing greening the digital process
For those of us who were brought up e-marketing, e-shopping, and all things e, we may feel smug that we are 'paperless' and green. Well, it's time to wake up! Direct mailers can actually be very responsible environmentally, and perhaps e-marketers need to pay closer attention to the environmental life cycle of digital commerce. In 2008 the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) … [Read more...]
