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Next Wednesday, the European Parliament will have its final vote on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement , or CETA. If you were h...

There's an important vote by MEPs on the ENVI committee tomorrow about CETA, the trade deal between the EU and Canada . Background on w...

It's is now clear that the incoming Trump government will be the most environment-hostile, and fossil fuel-friendly US administration i...

A couple of months ago, we reported on some interesting research into the reality of US trade agreements, in contrast to the rosy pictu...

Techdirt has been following the rapid rise and current problems of the various Pirate Parties in Europe for some time. Both their su...

I have long been appalled by what we are doing to our oceans. Not content with taking out more fish than is sustainable - a mathematically ...

One of the main impulses behind this blog is looking at the ways the ideas behind free software are being applied in other areas. Another m...

I don't think this needs much comment: The Chamber's Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) has been front and center in this d...

Everything began with the industrial revolution in 1750, which gave birth to the capitalist system. In two and a half centuries, the so call...

Speaking as a mathematician, I have never understood why economics ignores its environmental effects, since this fundamental error in the mo...

Oh, great : Music Drop In one gesture One drop that contains one song which can be used only one time to emphasize the value of the product ...

Some misguided people seem to think that intellectual monopolies are "sacred" - probably because they insist on calling them ...

One of the central themes of this blog is that the ideas behind free software can be applied much more widely - indeed, that open source is ...

One of the central themes of this blog is the commons, and how it's often helpful to re-frame discussions about software, content, the e...

I'm starting to write more posts about energy efficiency, since it obviously feeds into issues surrounding various environmental commons...

Blige, I thought, Mikey's seen the light : In a speech today at the Consumer Electronics Show here, Mr. Dell urged the electronics indus...

Given the current state of the planetary commons, I fear we are going to be needing these sooner than expected.

In these dark days when everything seems to be getting worse with the environmental commons, it is rare to come across something as positive...

One of the ideas that I've been banging on about on this blog is the commonality of the commons - how entirely disparate areas like open...

I like the concept of the World Overshoot Day. OK, the exact numbers are probably arguable, but the idea of living beyond our ecological me...