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Category Archives: Issue 2 – Climate Justice
The Rise of Climate-Change Art
Vision of a tragic future? … Tomás Saraceno’s Biospheres at the Rethink exhibition in Copenhagen. Photograph: Anders Sune Berg
In the past decades, policy makers have given great attention to making cities or nations more sustainable. We, as citizens of the world, have to reconsider our obligations and responsibilities regarding our planet, too, because policy makers [...]
Posted in Arts & Culture, Issue 2 - Climate Justice
Tagged Arts & Culture, Climate Justice, Copenhagen
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Copenhagen Accord to Jump on the Bandwagon of Irresponsibility
Putting nearly two-hundred negotiators at a table is unlikely to produce agreements that live up to everyone’s expectations. Accordingly, either bargains end in a clearer and stronger deal under the leadership of some actors, which however might not be supported and in the case of a treaty or declaration, not signed by others. Or negotiators [...]
Technology for Ten Billion People
Reinder vanTijen, Founder of Demotech
Climate justice and technology are intrinsically linked subjects. Technology is at the heart of the industrial revolution, which on the one hand brought about the prosperity and development we currently enjoy in the North.
On the other hand, it is also the root cause of increased greenhouse gas emissions and ongoing climate [...]
On Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek – Photo by Kate Milford
“This is where we should start when we talk about ecology” says an eccentric, accented voiceover with the image frame a massive pile of garbage.
Our second submission for the ‘free’ category of the Maas Media newsletter is a short video clip taken from Astra Taylor’s 2008 film Examined [...]
Editorial II
Dear Friends,
More than two months since the publication of the inauguratory issue of the fabulous grassroots media initiative that is Maas Media, we are finally back with the much anticipated second issue, as we step into the second decade of this new century. Needless to say, in these last two months, several highly significant events [...]
Consumer Lifestyles and Economic Growth
The current economy is fundamentally dependent on growth and its correlate: consumerism. The results of this form of capitalist expansion in the context of globalization continue to pose serious challenges to human well-being and destroy the environment. An ever expanding economy that relies on growing consumption (and therefore fosters cultures of consumerism) is a [...]
Posted in Food & Consumption, Issue 2 - Climate Justice
Tagged Climate Justice, Food & Consumption, TED
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