Editions

Chain Reaction #117 (April 2013) - click here to read the articles online, or to download as a PDF click here.

REGULAR ITEMS − FoE Australia News − FoE International News − Earth News. FoE CAMPAIGNS AND AFFILIATES. Market Forces. River Red Gums face new threat. Baillieu's resignation opens door for wind policy shift. Organic Food Improving Health Services in Uganda. NANOTECHNOLOGY. Save the silver for where it's needed. Testing reveals potentially dangerous free radical producing ingredients in sunscreen and cosmetics. Sunscreens exposed: stripping away the gloss. Nano-news. 'GREEN TAPE' PROPAGANDA. Gillard's 'green tape' propaganda. WA uranium debate undermines 'green tape' propaganda. CLIMATE & ENERGY. Campaigning to stop the fourth coal terminal in Newcastle. Australia's electricity market: making the polluters profitable. The dirty business of coal in NSW. Poowong says no to coal and gas. Campbell Newman's uranium backflip in Queensland. Nuclear power: looking back, looking forward. Spinning Fukushima. OTHER ARTICLES. Deep Sea Mining − The Pacific Experiment. Campaign for an Iraq War Inquiry. Indigenous communities, conservation and the resource boom. REVIEWS. Nguly Gu Yadoo Mai (Our Good Food). Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia. 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years

Chain Reaction #116 (November 2012) - click here to read the articles online, or if you'd like the entire edition as a PDF email chainreaction@foe.org.au.

REGULAR ITEMS − FoE Australia News − FoE International News. OBITUARIES − Mrs Crombie − Mrs Brown − Frank Fisher. NANOTECH SCANDAL − Nanotech sunscreen scandal update − Australia's nanotechnology public engagement ineffective and biased − Shapeshifting stories and singing sock-puppets: inside the Government's sunscreen nano-wars. CLIMATE & ENERGY − Anti-wind farm laws are bad politics for Vic Premier − Small island communities, climate change and human rights − Nuclear South Wales? Premier's atomic ambitions face fierce opposition − Uranium's long and shameful journey to Fukushima − The scarcely-believable story of General Atomics / Heathgate Resources − Mapping Australia's nuclear sites − Comparing nuclear risks in Japan and Australia − Olympic Dam and the Lizard's Revenge − Uranium sales and India's nuclear arms race. OTHER ARTICLES − Swan Island Peace Convergence − New FoE campaign to protect environmental laws − Australian Nuclear Free Alliance − Australia's Corporate Food Plan − James Price Point gas hub controversy − Seeing REDD in Kalimantan − Reverse Garbage Co-op, Brisbane − Chlorine contamination of drinking water. REVIEWS − Mine-field − Patricia Clarke: Keep the Fires Burning − Tomorrow's Children: uncovering a cancer cluster in Tasmania − How coal is killing Australia − The fallout from Fukushima

Chain Reaction #115 (August 2012) - read the articles online here or to download entire edition as a PDF file click here.

Regular Items: FoE Australia News; FoE International News; Earth News. Coal, gas and coal seam gas: Lock the Gate unites cockies, blockies, croppers and greenies; Coal, CSG and Victoria's green politics battleground; The power of locking your gate; James Price Point LNG controversy. Nuclear, solar, wind: Uranium flashpoint in WA; Toro Energy promotes dangerous radiation junk science; Anti-uranium Walk for Country in WA; The humanitarian imperative to ban nuclear weapons; Muckaty Traditional Owners fighting Ferguson's dump; Maralinga − 60 years on; The ugly face of Australia's nuclear racism; Nuclear power, warfare and global famine; Wind turbines power mass hysteria; SA electricity generation: Good news, and better to come. Nanotechnology: Slip, slop, slap: exposing the great sunscreen cover-up; Exposure to nanoparticles can have serious health impacts; Nano arms race. Other articles: Basin plan delivers a raw deal; Women, food sovereignty and 'green jobs' in China; A new avenue of thought in Perth. Reviews: From the Vault − The Celibate Rifles; What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism

Chain Reaction #114 (April 2012) - read the articles online here, or to download entire edition as a PDF file click here.

Fukushima − one year on. Can we save the Murray-Darling? Occupy Texas. Fighting Martin Ferguson's nuclear dump. Food irradiation faces court challenge. Let the Facts Speak: an indictment of the nuclear industry. How low can uranium export policy go? Coal barons, not activists, threaten society. A smart grid and seven energy sources. A peak at Australia's energy potential. Synthetic biology: playing Lego with life. Rare earth project sparks huge campaign in Malaysia. Art to expose Agent Orange disaster. Dirty Money – the true cost of Australia's mineral boom. Psychology for a Better World

Chain Reaction #113 (December 2011) - Technology, Democracy, Equity - click here to download as PDF

Technology, Democracy & Equity: ecofeminism and Fukushima – Luddites and the politics of technology  – synthetic biology and the bio-economy – climate geoengineering – GMOs and food politics in Africa – nano-silver risks ignored – anarchism and technology – what's holding renewables back? – myth of the peaceful atom – and much more!

Chain Reaction #112 (July 2011) click here to download PDF.

Fukushima − the fallout in Australia. Australia wimps out on renewables. What's really pushing power prices up? The baseload electricity myth. US war games in Australia. Murray-Darling plan sinks. Gunns teetering in Tassie. Our bloody cattle exports. Australian teachers reject nano-sunscreens. Direct action for social change. Pindone rabbit baiting. And more!

Chain Reaction #111 (March 2011) - Contesting the Climate - click here to download as PDF

CONTESTING THE CLIMATE: Ideas for renewing the climate movement - Australia's place in the coal industry's world - Fighting coal seam gas in Queensland - The global tactics of King Coal - EU Emissions Trading System fraud - The rhetoric of a sustainable population - Australia's forest carbon offset schemes - Taking direct action for climate - In search of Utopia

Chain Reaction #110 (Nov 2010) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.

100% renewable energy for Australia. Floodwaters replenish the Murray – but for how long? Victorian Climate Bill. Climate policy − from carbon tax to direct action. Nanotechnology and climate change. The case against war memorials. Corporate greenwash. Heavy metal contamination in Tasmania. Uranium industry's record raises doubts. Nuclear Freeways. On the front lines of the fight against coal.

Chain Reaction #109 (July 2010) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.

Feature: The Future of Food. Plus lots more!

Chain Reaction #108 (March 2010) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.

Water Feature. One last chance to save the Murray-Darling Basin. Greenwashing desalination. Competing visions for Australia's tropical rivers. Population and water. Making Melbourne a water-sensitive city. Water privatisation. Uranium miners turning water into liquid waste.

Chain Reaction #107 (November 2009) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.

Climate campaigning in 2010. Resisting US-Aust war 'games'. Peter Garrett's U Sky Mining. Farmers vs coal mining. Nanoparticle risks. Exposing Forestry Tasmania.

Chain Reaction #106 (August 2009) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.

Is there a technofix for climate change? Biochar. Geoengineering. 'Fourth generation' nuclear power. Agrofuels. And much more!

Chain Reaction #105 (April 2009) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.

Forest Feature! Also: Australia's Climate Action Summit. Nanotechnology and safe sunscreens. US-Australia war games.

Chain Reaction #104 (December 2008) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.

Native title. Climate change. Nanotechnology. Nukes. And much more!

Chain Reaction #103 (Sept 2008) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.

Mining Feature

Chain Reaction #102 (April 2008) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.

Food Feature ... and much more.

Chain Reaction #101 (December 2007) - please find this as a PDF and webpage articles at this web archive.

Counter-terrorism ... plus much more!

Chain Reaction #100 (August 2007) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.

Special edition - Chain Reaction's 100th edition, woohoo.

Chain Reaction #99 (March 2007) - click here to download as PDF or read online at this web archive.

Climate change feature.

Chain Reaction #98 (September 2006) - click here to download as PDF

Strong Communities, Sane World: challenging the G20's neoliberal agenda

Chain Reaction #97 (June 2006) - click here to download as PDF

Nanotechnology feature.