Global IssuesQ&A: ‘ODA Is What Governments Want to Do at Their Whim’
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Think of a world where rich nations did not fund what was popular but instead collaborated to solve the developing world’s most pressing health needs.
Guatemala: Controversy Dogs New Highway
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Construction is expected to begin soon on a new highway across north-central Guatemala, the largest infrastructure project tackled so far by the government of Álvaro Colom.
Uganda: Palm Project Accused of Environmental Destruction
Monday, November 02, 2009
It is a public-private partnership intended to reduce Uganda's dependence on imported vegetable oil while creating sustainable jobs and income for several thousand people. Its critics say it's destroying forests with no regard for environmental regulations.
Us-Europe: An Ocean Apart in More Ways Than One
Monday, November 02, 2009
As a delegation of European Union leaders descends on Washington Tuesday, a new report argues that 'European governments prefer to fetishise transatlantic relations, valuing closeness and harmony as ends in themselves, and seeking influence with Washington through various strategies of seduction or ingratiation'.
Labour: Sorting Garbage - Green and Dignified Work
Monday, November 02, 2009
More than 1,500 representatives of waste recyclers from 13 countries, and thousands of other visitors, including the host country Brazil's left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, met last week in São Paulo, demonstrating that they are no longer pariahs in our throw-away society.
Climate Change: Jockeying for Position in Copenhagen
Monday, November 02, 2009
The global climate change caravan has arrived in Barcelona for a last round of talks before the Copenhagen summit. What's at stake for Africa?
Environment-Australia: Toxic Contaminants: The Other Scourge
Monday, November 02, 2009
As the world focuses on the impact of climate change, little attention is being paid to yet another environmental bane: increasing contamination of air, water and soil.
Mideast: Israelis Show the Light to Palestinian Herders
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Hundreds of impoverished Palestinian herders and farmers living in caves and tents in a remote area of the Palestinian West Bank have been provided free electricity due to the ingenuity of two Israeli physicists.
Environment: Rethinking Jobs for a Sustainable Economy
Saturday, October 31, 2009
The possibility of environmental catastrophe has led many leaders, scholars and average citizens to reconsider an economy based on constant growth. It is becoming clear that people, especially in the United States, will need to consume less in the way of natural resources to avoid planetary peril.
Brazil: Five-Star Garbage
Saturday, October 31, 2009
For the past 43 years, biologists Edna and Luiz Toledo have not waited for the garbage truck to collect their trash. Their three-storey house is in fact made out of 'garbage', from the floor to the roof. Items that others would see as worthless are, in their eyes, valuable raw material.
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