Demanding reparations for industrial pollution and adequate compensation for use of native lands, Indigenous activists in Peru shut down 11 wells in an Amazonian oil block on Tuesday. According to the Spanish EFE news agency, native protesters led by the Federation of the Achuar and Urarina Indigenous Peoples of the Corrientes River (FECONACO) occupied 11…
Read moreTime to Stop Worshipping Economic Growth
There are physical limits to growth on a finite planet. In 1972, the Club of Rome issued their groundbreaking report—Limits to Growth (twelve million copies in thirty-seven languages). The authors predicted that by about 2030, our planet would feel a serious squeeze on natural resources, and they were right on target. In 2009, the Stockholm Resilience Center introduced the…
Read moreLessons we can learn from the fall of the Berlin Wall have never been more topical
Most history books and articles increasingly tell a standard story about the fall of the Berlin Wall: the Soviet Union could no longer economically and militarily handle competition with the West, and brand-new Communist Party leader Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to initiate a policy of glasnost (transparency) and perestroika (restructuring) in the mid-1980s. Together with…
Read moreNovember 17: youth uprisings in Greece then and now
In November 1973, thousands of Greek students occupied one of the largest universities of Athens, the National Polytechnic, demanding the end of the military dictatorship which had started in 1967. The voice of the young students, “the free, fighting Greeks” as the DIY radio station of the occupation repeatedly called them, a voice that is…
Read moreF1 – Hamilton edges Vettel in final practice for Australian Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton made it a clean sweep of practice sessions at Melbourne’s Albert Park circuit, with the Mercedes driver claiming top sport in FP3 with 0.264s in hand over Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel. Charles Leclerc finished third in the second Ferrari. Of the expected frontrunners, Vettel was the first to bolt on a set of red…
Read moreWRC – Tänak takes an early lead on the Tour de Corse
FIA WRC championship leader Ott Tänak is the man to beat on the Tour de Corse after the opening loop of stages on the French island. The Toyota driver holds a narrow advantage over a chasing pack headed by M-Sport Ford’s Elfyn Evans. After last night’s ceremonial start in the town of Porto-Vecchio, the crews…
Read moreWIM – Mouton witnesses richly deserved podium for the all-female Kessel Racing crew
Michèle Mouton, President of the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission, was a proud onlooker at the opening round of the European Le Mans Series, witnessing the Commission-supported all-female Kessel Racing crew take an impressive podium placing at the 4 Hours of Le Castellet. Michelle Gatting (26, Danish), Rahel Frey (32, Swiss) and Manuela Gostner (34,…
Read moreWRC – Tänak on top as crews discover Chile challenges
Toyota’s Ott Tänak leads his FIA World Rally Championship rivals Sébastien Ogier and Thierry Neuville this Friday after the opening loop of stages at the inaugural Rally Chile. The first three stages took place on forest roads to the south of the host city Concepción, testing the crews’ brand new pace-notes that they made during…
Read morePoints Standings after Two Rounds of the 2019 EHSRC
Category 1: Three Crews Split by 1 Point Round 1 winner Antonio Parisi and Guiseppe D’Angelo are currently on 34 points and just 1 point ahead Ernie and Karen Graham and Heiko Dlugos and Tim Rauber, the two crews tied on 33 points. Round 2 winner Sverre Norrgard and Ari Koponen are five points behind…
Read moreEHSRC: Review of the Rally de Asturias Historico
The key feature of Asturian geography is its mountainous interior, which makes for some excellent twisting roads for the rally to be staged on. Two days of rally action saw plenty of drama, with the leading contenders all taking part in third installment of the nine round 2019 FIA European Historic Sporting Rally Championship….
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