Diversity. That is what the Green movement is about. For this reason, all the members of our political family are different from each other. However, we all stand up for a common array of issues, no matter where we come from. Joves d’Esquerra Verda (Catalan Left Young Greens) is not different: we defend Europe against…
Month: September 2014
Politics, March and Paris – the comeback of a movement!
Photo Credit: Heather Craig, Project Survival Media In the past few days, there was something missing in the German media. Something, which was featured by the New York Times front page, the Guardian, the Washington Post, BBC and across the internet: the Peoples’ Climate March, organized by environmental NGOs, indigenous peoples, local initiatives and supported…
A March to be Remembered
The Climate March in London – part of a global effort to make politicians once more take climate change seriously – looked impressive. It also showed the scale of alliances that are being created over this issue. As always, I arrived late. If everything would go according to plans, I – along with my partner…
Green Check-in: Norway
From Serbia to Norway, the Ecosprinter has done a quick check in with some of our Greens and Young Green friends around Europe to see what they are doing and what we should look out for! Eric Evans, Norwegian Green Party The long term issue is that we have a very strong successful welfare…
Will the Climate Summit be a Success?
This 23 September, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited world leaders, from government, finance, business, and civil society to a new Climate Summit, after the one in 2009 for Copenhagen, to “galvanize and catalyze climate action”. A few days before the Summit, what can we expect of it? By organizing this high-level event, M. Ban has…
Green Check-in: Spain
From Serbia to Norway, the Ecosprinter has done a quick check in with some of our Greens and Young Green friends around Europe to see what they are doing and what we should look out for! So in France they want to know what we think, but not in Spain. What problem does the media…
Green Check-in: Hungary
From Serbia to Norway, the Ecosprinter has done a quick check in with some of our Greens and Young Green friends around Europe to see what they are doing and what we should look out for! Makádi Balázs, Hungarian Greens “The Greens are chaining themselves to trees and want to save the whales and these…
The Green Case for Scottish Independence
For many outside of Scotland, including neighbouring countries such as Ireland, England and Norway, the motivations behind Scottish independence would seem to run counter to Green values. Green politics rejects nationalism outright and stresses cooperation between nations, but in the case of Britain, Greens argue that the nation is fundamentally broken and power too concentrated…
Green Check-in: Malta
From Serbia to Norway, the Ecosprinter has done a quick check in with some of our Greens and Young Green friends around Europe to see what they are doing and what we should look out for! Anna Azzopardi, Young Greens of Malta “We’re working with a migrant detention center with other NGOs to we create…
World Community Grid – Do something good with your computer
Frustrated about people dying of theoretically treatable diseases because pharmaceutical producers have nothing better to do than creating hundreds of new medicines for mild western diseases, while they do almost nothing against Malaria, Schitosomia and HIV? The explanation for this is simple: While People from the Global North can pay much for medicine against colds,…