Beirut’s Road Block To Sustainability
A highway construction project put on the back-burner for more than thirty years is to be implemented if Beirut’s municipality gets its way. The decision to use a proposal to alleviate traffic in the congested Beirut neighbor...
Privatise the Costs of Bank Failure
We are living in startling times in the European Union. For the past three years, Angela Merkel has used Germany’s large voting power within European institutions to force through an agenda of collective impoverishment fo...
The problem of food waste in China: Part 2
In the first part of this feature, astonishing new statistics regarding food waste across China were revealed. As more and more consumables are left on plates each year, the Chinese government is forced into increasingly hazard...
WATCH: Ellie Goulding’s #Song4Syria
Pop icon Ellie Goulding has released her single “I Know You Care” in support of Syria’s children – children who have watched their peers die, children who are starving, children who have been forced to f...
A Tribe Fights to Move Beyond Coal to Clean Energy
Southern Nevada’s Moapa Band of Paiutes called for the closure of the Reid Gardner coal plant and a transition to clean renewable energy future for Nevada. The tribe has successfully managed to close most of the Reid Gard...
India: Here Comes the Son
As India’s population rapidly increases, the nation’s tendency to prefer that women give birth to a son is likely to have detrimental effects on women and development. ‘Look, I’m going to tell you someth...
