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...]
Earth Day 2020 goes digital
Between the global pandemic and social distancing, Earth Day 2020 is going to look different than it ever has before, as many of us will be tuning into celebrations through a virtual screen or a socially distanced walk. With COVID-19 disrupting all semblance of normalcy and routine in the world, the organizers of Earth Day’s 50th anniversary celebration ditched their usual … [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...]
