Author: John

Denis Laporta In the last months of 2024, Ecuador has gone through a drought that has plunged the population into darkness, during 3 long months with electricity shortages up to 14 hours a day. The large central dams of the country, which supply 70 percent of electricity consumption, face a…

Carmen Romelia Aguirre, 62 years old, is the vice-president of the Asociación de Producción de Energía Renovable Río Aguagrún (HidroAguagrun).  As a farmer and the owner of a small trout farm, she lives in the community of Cerro-Pelado in the upper part of the Aguagrún river basin. Her home is…

Jorge Rafael Guachagmira Fuel, 36 years old, is the president of the Association for the Production of Renewable Energy Aguagrun River. Self-taught, the son of a big family, he is a well-known craftsman who runs a workshop devoted to industrial mechanics in the rural community of Nangulví, which is in…

Russ Vernon-Jones Over the years I have written many posts about the climate crisis and about climate justice — good news, bad news, goals, new technologies, activists’ successes, and the depth of the crisis. Today I want to state explicitly what must happen if we are to keep much of…