Editions
Chain Reaction #127 ‒ August 2016
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Regular Items
Friends of the Earth Articles
The Green Pledge: A Rationale ‒ Nicole Schild and Andrew Self
Will the federal government revisit its attacks on environment groups? ‒ Cam Walker
Healthy Futures at the Health and Environmental Sustainability Conference
The boat people from paradise lost ‒ Lyn Bender
Who knows who pays the political piper? ‒ Daniel Gocher
Militarism
Sacrificing the Reef with militarism, mining, censorship and tokenism ‒ John Glue
Will militarism block the climate change movement? ‒ Margie Pestorius
Militarism and climate activism: staring down the threat of climate disaster ‒ Peter Burdon
Renewable energy
FoE's campaign for a Victorian Renewable Energy Target ‒ Leigh Ewbank
The renewable energy revolution
Nuclear
Manufacturing dissent: environmentalists and nuclear power in the USA ‒ Jim Green
Australia's nuclear-powered PR in meltdown ‒ Dave Sweeney
Black Mist, White Rain ‒ Gem Romuld
Karlamalyi Walk in Western Australia
Environmental racism
Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people ‒ Jim Green
SA Premier silent while Flinders Ranges threatened ‒ Regina McKenzie
Expanding the concept of environmental racism ‒ Larry Lohmann
Other articles
Multinational tax dodging costs billions
Transforming male supremacy in our everyday activism and lives ‒ Rodney Vlais
Pacific societies call to save their seas
The fight for the environment and the fight for blue-collar jobs are one and the same ‒ Van Badham
The zillion year town ‒ Nick Sharp
The Invisible War, a graphic novel
Fukushima's Stolen Lives: A Dairy Farmer's Story
Pitched Battle: in the frontline of the 1971 Springbok tour of Australia
Towards a steady state economy
South Pole: Nature and Culture
Chain Reaction #126 – April 2016
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REGULAR ITEMS
CLIMATE CAMPAIGNING AFTER THE UN COP-21 CLIMATE CONFERENCE
The UN COP-21 Paris Climate Agreement: A huge step forward? ‒ Chloe Aldenhoven
Hopes and dreams for a fragile homeland ‒ Rose Elu
On the theft of power ‒ Kat Moore
International climate solidarity is more than plane fares and conferences ‒ Nic Maclellan
Creative self-destruction and the climate ‒ Clive Hamilton
We can achieve sustainability – but not without limiting growth ‒ Mark Diesendorf
NUCLEAR
Royal Commission recommends international high-level nuclear waste dump for South Australia
Aboriginal people seek support in nuclear waste dump battle
Nuclear waste nightmares: USA, Germany, France
COP that: nuclear lobbyists on the offensive ‒ Jim Green
Fukushima Fallout: Updates from Japan ‒ Jim Green
Who wants to keep Aussies in the dark about food irradiation? ‒ Robin Taubenfeld
Australia's nuclear weapons hypocrisy ‒ Tim Wright
OTHER
The world's forests will collapse if we don't learn to say 'no' ‒ Bill Laurance
Political parties urged to halt the erosion of Australia's democracy: new report
The latest from the Leard State Forest ‒ Phil Evans
Earthworker Cooperative installing solar hot water systems on community housing
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ARTICLES
Climate change and drinking water ‒ Anthony Amis
A prescription for a healthier planet ‒ Tatiana Hitchen
Energy revolution ‒ FoE International report
Hunt turns Red Gum Parks into firewood ‒ Morgana Russell
FSANZ deregulates GMOs by stealth ‒ Louise Sales
Tasmanian bushfires a climate wake up call ‒ Cam Walker
How the food system drives climate change
Civil resistance in West Papua
Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change
Chain Reaction #125 - November 2015
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- FoE Australia News
- FoE International News
Challenging the privatised university:
- Emerging tech and challenging the privatised uni − Jeremy Tager
- The universities we need − Raewyn Connell
- What's wrong with privatising universities? − Jeannie Rea
- A focus on private investment means universities can't fulfil their public role − Margaret Thornton
- How corporate investment corrodes the public research environment − Jack Heinemann
- Why do universities still invest in fossil fuels? − Carol Richards
- A shift towards industry-relevant degrees isn't helping students get jobs − Kristen Lyons and Richard Hill
- Nuclear power's long farewell?
- Should Australia become the world's nuclear waste dump − Jim Green
- Summing the health effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster − Dr Ian Fairlie
- Shenhua Watermark Coal – the fight for the Liverpool Plains continues − Aidan Kempster and Phil Evans
- The fantasy of cheap, safe nuclear energy − Mark Diesendorf
- The renewable energy revolution
- Renewables can do 100%, but when will Australia see it done? − Alastair Leith
- Eight things Malcolm Turnbull should do on climate, renewables − Giles Parkinson
- Geoengineering: Striking targets or missing the point? − Ben Courtice
- Poison or poverty? Glencore's blackmail of Borroloola − Lauren Mellor
Friends of the Earth articles:
- Greening the Internet − Felicity Ruby
- The Great Artesian Basin, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carpentaria and inland Australia at risk − John Glue
- A spoonful of sugar is not enough to help the TPP go down − Sam Castro and Kat Moore
- Minmetals and the lead poisoning of Rosebery Tasmania − Anthony Amis
- Inside Friends Of The Earth's Yes 2 Renewables Campaign − Lisa de Kleyn
- FoE's campaign to stop whaling 1976-78 − Bro Sheffield-Brotherton
- Black Hole documentary review − Phil Evans
Chain Reaction #124 - September 2015
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Friends of the Earth, Australia News
Government attacks on environmental groups
Threats against environment groups, threats against democracy − Ben Courtice
Australia needs politically active environmental groups − Susan Laurance and Bill Laurance
Silence on the agenda for enviro-charity inquiry − Andrew Leigh
Articles
Australian pesticides map takes shape − Anthony Amis
Some reflections on Friends of the Earth: 1974−76 − Neil Barrett
River Country Campaign − Morgana Russell
The Trans Pacific Partnership − Kieran Jairath, Michael Johnstone and Kat Moore
Occupied Palestine: The soldiers in the night ... and throughout every day − Jessica Morrison
The flaw in the new White Paper for developing northern Australia − John Glue
Vedanta in Tasmania: Not the corporate miner we want − Isla MacGregor
Semantically engineered crops − Louise Sales
Climate, energy, nuclear
Green Climate Fund: Course correction needed? − Karen Orenstein and Brandon Wu
The Catholic church confronts capitalism and technology − Jeremy Tager
Four easy ways to grow renewable energy in Victoria − Leigh Ewbank
Coal closures give SA the chance to go 100% renewable − Mark Diesendorf
Solar: the new normal for a sunny country − Claire O'Rourke
South Australia: The nuclear state? − Robyn Wood
Our heart jiggled with joy: Celebrating one year since historic nuclear dump decision
Can Australia learn from international experience in managing radioactive waste? − Anica Niepraschk
Radioactive Exposure Tour: Red dirt, porridge and the nuclear industry − Gem Romuld
Radioactive Racism in the Wild West − Mia Pepper
Rehabilitating Mirarr land: Uranium mining to end at Ranger? − Lauren Mellor
− Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard
− Nonviolence unbound
− Big World, Small Planet: Abundance Within Planetary Boundaries
− How Australians were persuaded to ignore risk of climate change
− The race to feed a crowded world
Chain Reaction #123 - April 2015
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Friends of the Earth Australia: 40 years young
- A short history of Friends of the Earth Australia
- Saving the river red gums: An historic conservation victory
- FoE exposes uranium cartel in 1976
- Opposing uranium mining in Brisbane, 1976−78
- FoE Melbourne Food Coop and Café
- Bike rides against uranium mining
Other Articles
- Australians leading the charge for a nuclear weapons-free world
- The Bat Attack: Where Hundreds Made History
- Big energy hates renewable energy
- Queensland's opportunity to address significant environmental threats
- Reflections on G20
- Dayak people of Indonesian Borneo taking on BHP Billiton
- Indigenous Protected Areas under threat
- US National Academy of Sciences backs untested geoengineering technologies
- Government's deregulatory extremism puts public at risk
- Register suggests widespread unregulated use of nanomaterials in agriculture in Australia
- Tasmanian government axes pesticide monitoring in waterways
- Royal Commission should examine SA's shameful nuclear legacy
- And more!
Chain Reaction #122 – November 2014
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- Attacks on NGOs are a threat to our democracy
- Malaysian eco-activists combat repression
- Nanomaterials in food packaging: FSANZ fails consumers again
- Throwing precaution to the wind: the government's attempts to thwart the regulation of synthetic biology
- Working for water justice in the Murray-Darling Basin
- Small-is-beautiful nuclear rhetoric fading fast
- Historical pesticide monitoring of Victorian waterways – A jigsaw with many missing pieces
- Maules Creek mine: front-line action on coal
- The search for oil and gas continues − but at what cost?
- If irradiated food is glowingly good – why not label it?
- Yes 2 Renewables
- Farmlands Not Gaslands
- Island Voices, Global Choices
- Why renewable energy matters
- Renewable energy is ready to supply all of Australia's electricity
- Maralinga: a chilling exposé
- And loads more!
Chain Reaction #121 – July 2014
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FEATURE − FoE's EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES CAMPAIGN
- Editorial: emerging technologies and corporate control − Jeremy Tager and Louise Sales
- Late lessons from early warnings: Is it impossible to learn from history? − Steffen Foss Hansen
- The new Sorcerer’s Apprentices? − Clive Hamilton
- The brave new world of synbio − Jim Thomas
- Corporate corruption of science and its effects on workers and the environment − David S. Egilman and Susanna Rankin Bohme
- #CrazyTech
- Done deals and revolving doors: the story of GM in Australia − Kath Wilson
- 'Partner or Perish'? The convergence of public and private interests pose new questions for controversial university research − Kristen Lyons
- Critical scholarship in a hostile climate: academics and the public − Steve Tombs and David Whyte
- Corporate influence over nanotechnology regulation − Louise Sales
- Corporate efforts to impede renewable energy − Mark Diesendorf
- Geopiracy: Patent law, climate change, and geoengineering − Matthew Rimmer
- Regulatory failure or institutional corruption? The case of Food Standards Australia New Zealand and the 'regulation' of nanomaterials in food − Jeremy Tager
- Public engagement and the National Enabling Technologies Strategy − Georgia Miller
- The use of techno-utopian narratives to further corporate control − Jeremy Tager
Chain Reaction #120 – March 2014
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FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CAMPAIGNS
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FoE Australia News − FoE International News − Friends of the Earth at the G20: a grassroots human response − Koalas and Blue Gum Plantations − High ecological value State Forests to be logged in Queensland − Watershed on Indigenous rights needed in Victoria − Research on nanomaterials is lagging behind commercial developments − What's the story with nanoparticles in sunscreen? − Digging into EIA: Failures in impact assessments
CLIMATE, FOSSIL FUELS, RENEWABLES
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Connecting with Torres Strait Islander communities on climate change − Climate change displacement and the need for pre-emptive, managed migration − Seaspray residents vow to do whatever it takes to protect land − The lies about renewable energy's cost −Electricity privatisation: a record of failure − Abbott government's wind energy health review unnecessary − Climate change: the situation is hopeless: let's take the next step
OTHER ARTICLES
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Great Artesian Basin and Painted Desert under threat from Altona's proposed Arckaringa Coal Mine − The struggle for the Leard State Forest − Legal personality for Great Barrier Reef
NUCLEAR POWER, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, URANIUM
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Australian yellowcake fuels Ukrainian fires −The People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy in India − Fukushima apologies and apologists − Queensland campaign against uranium mining − The nuclear renaissance that never was − The humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons
Chain Reaction #119 – November 2013
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FoE Australia News.
VARIOUS ARTICLES: Election aftermath: Full speed in reverse − The Platypus Project − Reefwalk 2013 − Boycott reforms target environmentalists − Energy freedom on or off the grid? − ACCC fails to tackle misleading conduct in sunscreen industry − Wandoan coal project scrapped − Dim future for coal, report finds − Forest Stewardship Council fails rainforest protection in Victoria − Plantation forestry in Uganda − The fight for WA's forests − Knit Your Revolt − Don't Bank on the Bomb − International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative Summit − Farewell speech by Ursula Rakova from Tulele Peisa.
URANIUM, NUCLEAR POWER, NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Fukushima and nuclear conspiracy theories − Is Fukushima the new normal for nuclear reactors? − Harassment of anti-nuclear citizens in Japan − Fukushima "under control"? − Fukushima and the death of science journalism in Australia − Uranium mining and export not a piece of yellowcake − World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2013 − Uranium price slumps, Paladin Energy in trouble − South Korea: Nuclear scandal widens − China cancels nuclear fuel centre following protests − Taiwanese nuclear politics heats up − Uranium Mining in Niger − Dig for secrets: the lesson of Maralinga's Vixen B − Abbott's Indigenous Council: Undermining Aboriginal interests? − Australia's Nuclear Shame, Part I: Undermining the South Pacific Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Australia's Nuclear Shame, Part II: Undermining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty − Australia's Nuclear Shame, Part III: Undermining nuclear disarmament diplomacy.
REVIEWS: Understanding the Science of Climate Change − Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence
Chain Reaction #118 – August 2013
Chain Reaction #118 (August 2013) - to read articles online click here, or to download as a PDF click here.
Friends Of The Earth Campaigns − FoE Australia News − FoE International News − Irradiated food coming to a supermarket near you − Radioactive Exposure Tour a big success − Plantations and Forest Stewardship Council audits − Quitting coal in Gippsland − Concerned residents 'shocked' by state of gas wells − Coal trains in suburban Brisbane − Nanomaterials in the environment: an unknown risk − Rudd's plans to float carbon price a sham.
Climate & Energy − Think again, minister, on uranium deal with Emirates − Green light for King Island wind farm feasibility study − The tale of two rallies: Canberra demonstrates strong support for wind energy − Zero emissions power is possible, and we know what it will cost − 100% renewables for Australia: not so costly after all − Baseload power is a myth: even intermittent renewables will work − Nuclear doom, renewables boom − The economics of the uranium export industry
James Price Point − Victory! James Price Point / Walmadan: A huge win − Reflections on winning from Camp Walmadan
Other Articles − Algal blooms and toxins in Oceania − Talisman Saber 2013: bringing war to our door − In the name of sustainability: Deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia
Reviews − The Amazing Gift of Water for a Thirsty World − Mullahs Without Mercy: Human Rights and Nuclear Weapons − Character before knowledge: a history of the atomic scientists − Album Review: Roger Knox and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Chain Reaction #117 – April 2013
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REGULAR ITEMS − FoE Australia News − FoE International News − Earth News. FoE CAMPAIGNS AND AFFILIATES. Market Forces. River Red Gums face new threat. Baillieu's resignation opens door for wind policy shift. Organic Food Improving Health Services in Uganda. NANOTECHNOLOGY. Save the silver for where it's needed. Testing reveals potentially dangerous free radical producing ingredients in sunscreen and cosmetics. Sunscreens exposed: stripping away the gloss. Nano-news. 'GREEN TAPE' PROPAGANDA. Gillard's 'green tape' propaganda. WA uranium debate undermines 'green tape' propaganda. CLIMATE & ENERGY. Campaigning to stop the fourth coal terminal in Newcastle. Australia's electricity market: making the polluters profitable. The dirty business of coal in NSW. Poowong says no to coal and gas. Campbell Newman's uranium backflip in Queensland. Nuclear power: looking back, looking forward. Spinning Fukushima. OTHER ARTICLES. Deep Sea Mining − The Pacific Experiment. Campaign for an Iraq War Inquiry. Indigenous communities, conservation and the resource boom. REVIEWS. Nguly Gu Yadoo Mai (Our Good Food). Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia. 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
Chain Reaction #116 – November 2012
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REGULAR ITEMS − FoE Australia News − FoE International News. OBITUARIES − Mrs Crombie − Mrs Brown − Frank Fisher. NANOTECH SCANDAL − Nanotech sunscreen scandal update − Australia's nanotechnology public engagement ineffective and biased − Shapeshifting stories and singing sock-puppets: inside the Government's sunscreen nano-wars. CLIMATE & ENERGY − Anti-wind farm laws are bad politics for Vic Premier − Small island communities, climate change and human rights − Nuclear South Wales? Premier's atomic ambitions face fierce opposition − Uranium's long and shameful journey to Fukushima − The scarcely-believable story of General Atomics / Heathgate Resources − Mapping Australia's nuclear sites − Comparing nuclear risks in Japan and Australia − Olympic Dam and the Lizard's Revenge − Uranium sales and India's nuclear arms race. OTHER ARTICLES − Swan Island Peace Convergence − New FoE campaign to protect environmental laws − Australian Nuclear Free Alliance − Australia's Corporate Food Plan − James Price Point gas hub controversy − Seeing REDD in Kalimantan − Reverse Garbage Co-op, Brisbane − Chlorine contamination of drinking water. REVIEWS − Mine-field − Patricia Clarke: Keep the Fires Burning − Tomorrow's Children: uncovering a cancer cluster in Tasmania − How coal is killing Australia − The fallout from Fukushima
Chain Reaction #115 – August 2012
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Regular Items: FoE Australia News; FoE International News; Earth News. Coal, gas and coal seam gas: Lock the Gate unites cockies, blockies, croppers and greenies; Coal, CSG and Victoria's green politics battleground; The power of locking your gate; James Price Point LNG controversy. Nuclear, solar, wind: Uranium flashpoint in WA; Toro Energy promotes dangerous radiation junk science; Anti-uranium Walk for Country in WA; The humanitarian imperative to ban nuclear weapons; Muckaty Traditional Owners fighting Ferguson's dump; Maralinga − 60 years on; The ugly face of Australia's nuclear racism; Nuclear power, warfare and global famine; Wind turbines power mass hysteria; SA electricity generation: Good news, and better to come. Nanotechnology: Slip, slop, slap: exposing the great sunscreen cover-up; Exposure to nanoparticles can have serious health impacts; Nano arms race. Other articles: Basin plan delivers a raw deal; Women, food sovereignty and 'green jobs' in China; A new avenue of thought in Perth. Reviews: From the Vault − The Celibate Rifles; What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism
Chain Reaction #114 – April 2012
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Fukushima − one year on. Can we save the Murray-Darling? Occupy Texas. Fighting Martin Ferguson's nuclear dump. Food irradiation faces court challenge. Let the Facts Speak: an indictment of the nuclear industry. How low can uranium export policy go? Coal barons, not activists, threaten society. A smart grid and seven energy sources. A peak at Australia's energy potential. Synthetic biology: playing Lego with life. Rare earth project sparks huge campaign in Malaysia. Art to expose Agent Orange disaster. Dirty Money – the true cost of Australia's mineral boom. Psychology for a Better World
Chain Reaction #113 (December 2011) - Technology, Democracy, Equity - click here to download as PDF
Technology, Democracy & Equity: ecofeminism and Fukushima – Luddites and the politics of technology – synthetic biology and the bio-economy – climate geoengineering – GMOs and food politics in Africa – nano-silver risks ignored – anarchism and technology – what's holding renewables back? – myth of the peaceful atom – and much more!
Chain Reaction #112 (July 2011) click here to download PDF.
Fukushima − the fallout in Australia. Australia wimps out on renewables. What's really pushing power prices up? The baseload electricity myth. US war games in Australia. Murray-Darling plan sinks. Gunns teetering in Tassie. Our bloody cattle exports. Australian teachers reject nano-sunscreens. Direct action for social change. Pindone rabbit baiting. And more!
Chain Reaction #111 (March 2011) - Contesting the Climate - click here to download as PDF
CONTESTING THE CLIMATE: Ideas for renewing the climate movement - Australia's place in the coal industry's world - Fighting coal seam gas in Queensland - The global tactics of King Coal - EU Emissions Trading System fraud - The rhetoric of a sustainable population - Australia's forest carbon offset schemes - Taking direct action for climate - In search of Utopia
Chain Reaction #110 (Nov 2010) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.
100% renewable energy for Australia. Floodwaters replenish the Murray – but for how long? Victorian Climate Bill. Climate policy − from carbon tax to direct action. Nanotechnology and climate change. The case against war memorials. Corporate greenwash. Heavy metal contamination in Tasmania. Uranium industry's record raises doubts. Nuclear Freeways. On the front lines of the fight against coal.
Chain Reaction #109 (July 2010) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.
Feature: The Future of Food. Plus lots more!
Chain Reaction #108 (March 2010) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.
Water Feature. One last chance to save the Murray-Darling Basin. Greenwashing desalination. Competing visions for Australia's tropical rivers. Population and water. Making Melbourne a water-sensitive city. Water privatisation. Uranium miners turning water into liquid waste.
Chain Reaction #107 (November 2009) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.
Climate campaigning in 2010. Resisting US-Aust war 'games'. Peter Garrett's U Sky Mining. Farmers vs coal mining. Nanoparticle risks. Exposing Forestry Tasmania.
Chain Reaction #106 (August 2009) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.
Is there a technofix for climate change? Biochar. Geoengineering. 'Fourth generation' nuclear power. Agrofuels. And much more!
Chain Reaction #105 (April 2009) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.
Forest Feature! Also: Australia's Climate Action Summit. Nanotechnology and safe sunscreens. US-Australia war games.
Chain Reaction #104 (December 2008) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.
Native title. Climate change. Nanotechnology. Nukes. And much more!
Chain Reaction #103 (Sept 2008) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.
Mining Feature
Chain Reaction #102 (April 2008) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.
Food Feature ... and much more.
Chain Reaction #101 (December 2007) - please find this as a PDF and webpage articles at this web archive.
Counter-terrorism ... plus much more!
Chain Reaction #100 (August 2007) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.
Special edition - Chain Reaction's 100th edition.
Chain Reaction #99 (March 2007) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.
Climate change feature.
Chain Reaction #98 (September 2006) - click here to download as PDF
Strong Communities, Sane World: challenging the G20's neoliberal agenda
Chain Reaction #97 (June 2006) - click here to download as PDF
Nanotechnology feature.