Eco-Instigator 11 by HOMEF- a collector’s delight
HOME RUN The turmoil in the world has continued with increasing sites of environmental and political conflagrations. As this edition of your Eco-Instigator was going to bed, the world was shocked to hear of the assassina…
Break Free From Fossil Fuels
“Break Free From Fossil Fuels”: worldwide escalated mobilisations to end the fossil fuel era GLOBAL — Today, 9th March 2016, a global platform “Break Free” has been launched featuring a series of peaceful, escalate…
Halt the Assault on the Ekuri Community and other Forests
Some of the best preserved rain forests in Nigeria are the Cross River National Park and the Ekuri Community Forest all in Cross River State, Nigeria. These forests are under serious threat of being destroyed to make way…
Labour, Leaves and Leaving
Meetings with labour unionists are opportunities that open new interrogations of complex issues. The determination of African union leaders to create linkages with the wider civil society offers hope for the birth of str…
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Download and read the 10th edition of Eco-Instigator Analyses of COP21, Reports and Books you should read. All in the package. Read. Share. Send comments. Contribute to future editions. Eco-Instigator #10…
Eco-Instigator #10
As is the tradition of HOMEF, Eco-Instigator #10 was issued at close of December 2015 in order to bring you some comments from the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). …
Giant Cigarettes in the Sky – Nigeria’s Toxic Gas Flares
Gas flaring is the obnoxious practice of burning natural gas associated with crude oil extraction. To use the words of Joseph Croft of Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) in the excellent environmental documentary film N…
Dreadful Liars on Heartless Shores
Corporatized consciences Think little of spreading fires Dreadful liars Selling adaptation suits for funeral pyres 3 degrees 5 degrees 7 degrees Flame throwers watch the Planet burn As fire works herald the New Ye…
Between Subsidising Polluters and Thieves
The movement against subsidising the fossil fuel industry continues to grow and is an integral part of the keep it in the ground struggle. However, in places like Nigeria, contentious subsidies are those related to the i…
Two Good Days of Inspiring Indignation
For two days in the Maison des Metallos, Paris, experts, victims, prosecutors and judges presented or listened to cases of crimes against Mother Earth and at the end judgements were passed. There were solemn spiritual mo…
The Secure and the Dispossessed
This is a synopsis of the great book, THE SECURE AND THE DISPOSSESSED, from the TNI staple: What if government and corporate elites have given up on the idea of stopping climate change and prefer to try to manage its con…
COP21 Agreed to A Climate Changed World
COP21 has come and gone, and like most others before it, the response has been varied. Some have applauded the Paris Agreement as a giant step for humankind. Some are claiming a big win. Others take a holistic loo…
Social movements united in defiance of false solutions being negotiated at Paris COP
Social movements united in defiance of false solutions being negotiated at Paris COP 10th December, Paris: Representatives of social movements, grassroots and community groups, and environmental campaigning organisations…
International Rights of Nature Tribunal Constituted in Paris
PRESS RELEASE – 7 December 2015 International Rights of Nature Tribunal Constituted in Paris Introduction In an extraordinary display of global solidarity, vision and determination, communities and organizations fr…
Recognising Climate Crooks
The COP is an interesting space where climate criminals prowl about in well cut suits dripping with blood. Of course the COP means two key things: Conference of Polluters and more importantly, Conference of Procra…
