Those left on the outside after the collapse struggle to maintain dignity in the face of grim employment prospects and a pervasive culture of self-blame.
Shefa Siegel
Lead Environment and Policy Researcher, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.
Shefa Siegel is lead environment & policy researcher at the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, a joint center of Columbia University’s law school and Earth Institute. He also writes for Haaretz Books, Sojourners, and Environment 360.
Down and Outraged
By Shefa Siegel,
Lead Environment and Policy Researcher, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.
An Ethical Minefield
By Shefa Siegel,
Lead Environment and Policy Researcher, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.
It is easy to be critical of the destructive elements of mining. What’s more difficult is confronting the necessary and complex role minerals play in all of our lives.
The Keystone Movement’s Economic Moment
By Shefa Siegel,
Lead Environment and Policy Researcher, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.
It’s time for a union of concerned economists to oppose the tar sands pipeline.
A New Era for Environmentalists?
By Shefa Siegel,
Lead Environment and Policy Researcher, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.
The Keystone pipeline protests reveal the shifting fault lines and changing culture of protest movements.
Bill McKibben and the Fight to Stop the Tar Sands
By Shefa Siegel,
Lead Environment and Policy Researcher, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.
In a defiant act of civil disobedience, protestors stage a sit-in at the White House to implore Obama to stop the Keystone XL pipeline.
Raging Against the Machine
By Shefa Siegel,
Lead Environment and Policy Researcher, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.
High-end Vancouver, like its high-end hockey team, has alienated working-class fans to the point of anger.
Colombia’s Other Problem
By Shefa Siegel,
Lead Environment and Policy Researcher, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.
A health crisis is looming in Colombia, where the gold industry’s growth has led to dangerous levels of mercury in the atmosphere.
What Ails International Aid?
By Shefa Siegel,
Lead Environment and Policy Researcher, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.
From the earliest days of international aid, insufficient contemplation of its means and ends has crippled the endeavour.
Bill C-300: What Happened to Good Governance?
By Shefa Siegel,
Lead Environment and Policy Researcher, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.
By failing to support the responsible mining bill, Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals settled for “corporate social responsibility” in place of good governance.
Bill C-300 is Mining for Change
By Shefa Siegel,
Lead Environment and Policy Researcher, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment.
Passing a private member’s bill to legislate responsible mining practices is the right thing to do, ethically and economically.
