Could a well-structured class action lawsuit either prod fashion companies to build verifiable organic cotton supply chains, or abandon their claims that they’re selling organic cotton?
Read more...Many commodities, particularly metals and energy, are in short supply, which points to even higher prices.
Read more...A constitutional convention is remaking Chile to break with the model forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet
Read more...A rise of unfinished houses thanks to construction delays. Massive supply building up in the pipeline.
Read more...UN: Climate-stressed, pollution-degraded farms system must adopt sustainable practices to feed an additional 2 billion by 2050.
Read more...It’s hardly a secret that fracking has produced a sharp increase in the frequency of earthquakes. But now they are becoming more severe too.
Read more...“From Dirt to Soil” is well worth a read — and very hopeful, a good thing these days.
Read more...Economists project that prices for energy-transition metals will soar and their combined value could match that of crude oil
Read more...Gail Tverberg expands her focus beyond energy to provide an analysis of what is going terribly wrong in the world economy
Read more...This is good news for Mexico’s long-beleaguered state-owned oil company, Pemex, but not such good news for the US’ refinery industry.
Read more...Examines the macroeconomic effects of global food commodity price increases that are caused by global harvest and weather disruptions, and finds that the decline in economic activity is substantial and greater in advanced than in low-income countries.
Read more...“When it comes to the climate, African faith communities are urging the world to think twice before pushing a technical and corporate farming approach.”
Read more...Many commentators have fixated on levitating US securities markets, ignoring softening growth in Asia that is now hitting commodity prices
Read more...Gail Tvergberg explains why oil prices are likely to remain be lower than full costs, and how that undermines the move to cleaner energy.
Read more...Oil mavens are stymied at guessing what the commodity’s price trajectory might be.
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