We get an entertaining selection of press releases each week at the Ecologist. Recently, however, amid claims for the greenest 4x4s ever, vegan-friendly breastmilk ice cream and strip-mining with a heart, one stood out.
… products. • Betel quid A product of India, Africa and Asia, it consists of a dried paste …
The Brazilian Space Agency and Britain’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory are planning to boldly go into new realms of space-based rainforest protection.
… steps against it. The area to be tracked in Africa, the Congo rainforest, spans six …
Sometimes it’s good to take a peep at what the enemy is up to. I spent last weekend reading the New York Herald Tribune, and I’ll sometimes look at The Economist. Both these publications are excellent in their way – the Tribune is far superior in writing and information to The Times, for example – but essentially feed the greed of a business-minded readership anxious to figure out what is going on in the world, the better to profit from it.
… what is behind absurd ideas like laptops to Africa: with its stream of advertising, the … new markets for global concerns by convincing Africans that they need IKEA furniture or …
Rich industrialised countries have a responsibility to help others stick to their green responsibilities, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge, not collude in helping shirk them
… caused by using the most fertile lands of Africa to grow the vegetables that fill the …