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Originally published on ClimateProgress by Ari Phillips Melbourne is a sprawling network of neighborhoods, trams, trains, bikes, laneways and, around almost every corner, coffee shops — a bit like Portland, Oregon but bigger, more European feeling...

Do you ever feel like you’ve been left out in the cold? I do. Check out these things odd factolas about me: I: - Don’t have a smartphone – Don’t have cable (we did for a short time when it came for free) – Drive a 1...

It all started earlier this year in June. I was coding transcripts of the past global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meetings as part of a data mining exercise for DiploFoundation's Geneva Internet Platform (GIP). Pouring over transcript after transcript...

A forest village of the indigenous Matses tribe in the Amazon. (Rebecca Spooner/Survival International) When the balding Australian first stepped off the riverboat and into the isolated pocket of northeastern Peru's Amazon jungle in 2010, he had...

The client wanted carbon credits: tradable serial numbers that confer the right to pollute the Earth with invisible, odorless gas. Jugga, as the client called himself, planned to steal the credits, quickly resell them, and become rich overnight—but he...