From Grantmaker to Financial Activist June 26, 2018 “For the first time I connected the dots…the companies in which we invested were engaged in industries such as
Article: Beyond Climate Change Platitudes January 25, 2017 This Stanford Social Innovation Review blog post by Joanna Levitt Cea, the Director of Special Funds at IDEX, talks about
#AgroecologyVoices: Pat Mooney, ETC Group June 8, 2016 Pat Mooney believes that agroecology is at the core of food sovereignty. Food systems need to be ecologically sound and
Colombian court bans oil, gas and mining operations in paramos June 8, 2016 Major environmental victory after loophole permitting operations in rare ecosystems is declared “unconstitutional”! Swift
Water is Life. Don’t UnderMine It March 29, 2016 This vibrant animation from The Gaia Foundation and animator Ben Pearce takes us on two very different journeys through the
Together, we can cool the planet October 22, 2015 This new video by La Vía Campesina and GRAIN gives you the information you need to understand how the agroindustrial food
Why the Environment is a Human Rights Issue: The Experience of Funding in South America March 5, 2015 “There is no doubt that human rights must be at the top of the current environmental protection efforts of our times,
Soil Atlas: Facts and figures about earth, land and fields March 5, 2015 We are using the world’s soils as if they were inexhaustible, continually withdrawing from an account, but never paying in.
How much of world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture? December 29, 2014 GRAIN calculates that about half of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the food system, and that we need to turn to
UnderMining Agriculture October 13, 2014 The Gaia Foundation’s new report – UnderMining Agriculture: How the Extractives Industries Threaten our Food