The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) today condemned Ecuador for granting an oil concession in the Amazonian indigenous territories of the Sarayaku Kichwa people in the early 1990s without conducting free, prior, and informed consultations, in accordance with international standards, in violation of the Sarayaku people's rights to […]
While everyone in the Valdivia commune was celebrating another of their traditional festivals a few days ago, amid joy, parades, and dancing, an event related to the INDUVAL case, involving harassment, insults, and beatings of the President of the Valdivia Commune, Pedro Borbor, marred these celebrations. The incident, which occurred on February 13th […]
The First Things First Manifesto was originally written in 1963 and caused quite a stir at the time. It attacked the consumerist culture that was only interested in buying and selling things, and championed the humanistic dimension of graphic design. It was updated by a new group of […]
Do you know how many natural resources would be used globally if everyone on the planet consumed as much as you do? The global ecological footprint is 2.2 million, meaning it takes the planet an average of 1 year and 3 months to produce what we consume in a year. With this interactive tool, and a few minutes of your time, […]
The death of Lonesome George, the name given in Ecuador and around the world to the last giant tortoise species from Pinta Island (Chelonoidis abingdonii), which lived at the Charles Darwin Foundation in Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, in the early hours of Sunday, June 24th, is an event that not only […]
Pressure continues in San Pablo de Amalí over Hidrotambo. After two members of the San Pablo de Amalí community were arrested in previous weeks for resisting and preventing the destruction of their crops due to the construction of a hydroelectric project by the private company Hidrotambo SA, a committee of those affected […]
MANTA, ECUADOR.- Carlos Ahumada Quezada, head of the Satellite Monitoring Center of the Chilean Government's National Fisheries Service, is training officials from the Undersecretariat of Fisheries Resources (SRP) who are working on the implementation of this system. The Monitoring System in Chile has been operating since 2000, during which time it has […]
The International Whaling Commission (IWC), the body responsible for the international regulation of marine mammals, concluded its 64th annual meeting in Panama City a few days ago. It approved quotas for subsistence hunting for indigenous wildlife over the next six years and rejected the creation of a sanctuary in the South Atlantic (one of the […]
Published: July 8, 2012 BY: Paulina Muñoz Samaniego (Spokesperson for Ecuador Decide) Ecuadorian Women's Movement. Despite a widespread understanding that the cause of the global crisis—economic, environmental, and civilizational—is fundamentally due to the imposition of neoliberal policies promoted by large multinationals and financial mafias, in […]
The Slow Food Eco-Gastronomy Association has launched a new campaign called "Happy Degrowth," and within this space, there's a section seeking ideas for reducing waste, reusing, and recycling, thereby avoiding dangerous chemicals and their interaction with the food we eat. The first idea is not only functional but also simple, […]
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