by Edoardo de Paola The effects of climate change in Europe are becoming more and more apparent. Worrying trends of increased desertification and more extreme fluctuations in rainfall patterns have been assessed by the latestIPCC report. These transformations impact the freshwater availability in EU countries, particularly the warmest, which has created a need for adaptive…
Tag: Sustainability
Call for writers: FOOD (Printed Edition)
What is the environmental impact of food? What is the European regulatory framework around food production? What are the social implications of the current food production system? Is food access equal across the world? How can indigenous knowledge be leveraged to improve the current food system? Food is present in everyone’s daily lives, and people,…
EDITORIAL – CALL FOR ARTICLES – Towards the COP in Paris
CALL FOR ARTICLES : THE ROAD TOWARDS THE COP IN PARIS Hello young enthusiastic people, On the road towards the upcoming COP21 in Paris we invite you all to send in articles regarding the topic. What are your local perspectives or initiatives, what is your member organization doing, what are your personal insights,…
Technology : we need a radical change
The crisis brings a great chance and also a great danger for the future of green technologies. We make a choice. It’s considered that any crisis of the system means not only negative consequences but also new opportunities for the system to be changed. The crisis we live nowadays is not excluded. Nevertheless, many defenders…
What happens when we make a change?
Green politics can provide a source of real hope Recession: a hefty hammer of a word, capable of fracturing an impenetrable mob of environmentalists into many shards of differing opinion. There is a ‘less is more’ school of thought, popular among cynics, which teaches that less money in the pocket of the consumer directly correlates…
Risking food for fuel? Europe, agrofuels and food security
You have probably heard about the big “food versus fuel” debate in the media recently. This debate focuses on the fear that growing competition between agrofuels and food commodities will have adverse effects on the food security of the poor. But how much of this story is true? Will the EU really be responsible for…
Climate change and the world economical order
The climate change issue is usually addressed either as a natural catastrophe or a problem that can be corrected through small changes in our lives. But few make a connection between the current economical order and our problems with the weather. The truth is that the whole way of understanding Economy should be changed. The…
Greens and the Economy
I am so glad I was in Rome for the founding of the first ever European party, the European Greens. The youth conference before the main congress was also one of the high points as I attended the excellent working group on “Is ideology lost in Green parties?”. This working group involved heated arguments which…
"Free hugs and smiles!" – the new FYEG slogan
A great Federative Council took place between the 29th of November and the 3 of December 2002 and it was made even more memorable on Saturday night (30th November) as FYEG delegates from all over Europe descended on the busy shopping streets of Gent. In Friday night’s activism workshop, we had discussed the possibility of…