Water Contaminaton & Loss
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The Looming Food Crisis and the ‘Food 2030’ Report
It can’t go on like this…. Not long ago I was standing in a bookshop, minding my own business, when…
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Anupam Mishra: The Ancient Ingenuity of Water Harvesting (Video)
India is a country where water shortages have become so acute that the failed monsoon rains in 2009 had people…
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The Looming Global Water Crisis (Video)
Prelude: I just read a great interview with the Slovak hydrologist, and Goldman Environmental Prize winner, Michal Kravcik. Do check…
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Who Owns Water?
Editor’s Note: Being 7 years old now, the dates and meetings mentioned in the article below are obviously not current,…
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The Case of Syngenta: Human Rights Violations in Brazil – 2008
The Case of Syngenta: Human Rights Violations in Brazil – 2008 2mb PDF Switzerland is often portrayed as a clean,…
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A Hotter Planet Means Less on Our Plates
In the Sunday November 22, 2009 issue of Outlook in the Washington Post, Lester Brown discusses the significant implications of…
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Throwing Out the Throwaway Economy
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Piles of rubbish, and an incredible stench, border a main market street in…
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A Civilisational Tipping Point
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute In recent years there has been a growing concern over thresholds or tipping…
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The Oil Intensity of Food
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Today we are an oil-based civilization, one that is totally dependent on a…
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Home (video)
The following documentary, ‘Home‘, is almost perfect. As a photographer, I was totally engrossed in the imagery – mostly shot…
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Update on Shell Lawsuit
I know many of you will be wondering what happened in the Wiwa vs. Shell case I wrote about recently,…
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