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For us Salvadorans, Durban, South Africa is a long way from home. Many of us could not even locate it on a map. However, as Durban is currently holding the 17th annual meeting of the Conference of Parties, where decisions and resolutions on the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol are […]

Water needs to be viewed in the broader context of culture and society rather than as a resource. Respect towards our natural elements will help fight the cancer of pollution & depletion.

Australia is a dry country, yet it boasts 59,736 kilometres of coastline (for a state/territory breakdown of coastal lengths, see the Australian Government’s Geoscience Education web page). While the supply of salt water is seemingly endless, the supply of fresh water is critically insufficient. The situation demands innovative solutions. Acknowledging […]

On the November 24th 2011, Amnesty International launched its report on “Eviction and resistance in Cambodia: Five women tell their stories,” in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, where an estimated 10% of the city’s population has been evicted since the 1990s. The report features the first-hand testimony of Hong, Mai, […]

There is no discussion wherever we need to think about green energy – resources like gas or oil will finally run out and we will have to find some sort of substitute for them. The political and business elites cannot forget that people like logical solutions – if there is […]