Media
-
Earth for Sale: Maude Barlow’s New Book on the Fight Against the Financialization of Nature
In her new book, Earth for Sale: The Fight to Stop the Last Plunder of the Planet, Maude Barlow, founder of the Blue Planet Project and creator of the Blue Communities initiative, delivers an urgent warning about the accelerating financialization and commodification of nature. Barlow exposes the mechanisms, corporate actors, and illusions behind so-called “nature-based…
-
Contesting Global Water Governance: The World Water Forum vs the People’s Water Forum
The People’s Water Forum gathered on Earth Day to engage in a critical discussion about the corporate capture of global water governance at the World Water Forum and the alternative presented by the People’s Water Forum. Panelists will share experiences and analysis of contemporary water struggles globally and in their territories, reflecting on key issues.
-
Water struggles, anti-capitalist resistance to privatization and organizing politics in Africa
This poster series, by the African Ecofeminist Collective for the Alternative World Water Forum 2022, hopes to creates spaces for conversations on the possibilities of feminist, political and popular education and cultural work. Explore the full series here.
-
Dignity of the waters, a Blue Community in Chile
The Blue Planet Project is pleased to share a video about La Union in Petorca, Chile, a Blue Community.
-
Tasco: Protector of the Paramo, water and community management
For defending the water, for protecting the Paramo de Pisba against extractives and preventing the privatization of the community-managed water system, ASSOCTASCO was declared a Blue Community by the Blue Planet Project, Penca de Sabila and PAPC. Boyacá, Colombia, 2019.