Posts Tagged ‘Environment’

The Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada

The Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada
The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 20th November 2009 When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peace-keeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight...
December 1st, 2009 | Evolution | Read More

Will Technology create a Wiser World?

Will Technology create a Wiser World?
Technology will transform human life and force us to transform the way we think and live. Are you worried about where the world is headed? Does news of climate change, energy crises, food shortages, and war alarm you? Fear not, says George Washington University management professor William E. Halal....
November 25th, 2009 | Science & Technology | Read More

Avian Einsteins

Avian Einsteins
How do we learn to speak? What is the connection between language and movement? Join a broad and distinguished panel on an exploration of how striking parallels between bird and human brains are providing sharp new insights into how we acquire language and the links between hearing and movement. This...
November 25th, 2009 | Evolution | Read More

The Elephant Artist

The Elephant Artist
Pictures which were painted by elephants have gone on display at an Edinburgh gallery. Art graduate Victoria Khunapramot, 26, has brought the paintings from Thailand to the Dundas Gallery on Dundas Street. They include “self-portraits” by Paya, who is said to be the only elephant...
November 24th, 2009 | Arts | Read More

Why the sudden surge in climate change denial?

Why the sudden surge in climate change denial?
Could it be about something else altogether? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 2nd November 2009 There is no point in denying it: we’re losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere which cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument;...
November 20th, 2009 | Environment | Read More

Left in the Dark

Left in the Dark
While a student at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and preparing a short dissertation entitled ‘The Genetic Manipulation of Plants’ the subconscious seeds of a revolutionary new theory were sown in Tony Wright’s mind. Over the next 20 years a mixture of scientific curiosity and radical self-experimentation...
November 17th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Is your cheeseburger causing global warming?

Is your cheeseburger causing global warming?
James Cascio exhibits the growing concern that modern dietary habits are unnatural and unsustainable. In fact the global livestock management industry occupies 30% of the world’s land surface and is responsible for 18% of human-made Greenhouse Gas emissions – that’s 4% more than the...
October 21st, 2009 | Environment | Read More

Contraception is the “Greenest” of Green Technologies

Contraception is the “Greenest” of Green Technologies
Contraception is almost five times cheaper than conventional green technologies as a means of combating climate change, according to research published today (Wednesday, September 9). Each $7 (£4) spent on basic family planning over the next four decades would reduce global CO2 emissions by more than...
September 30th, 2009 | Environment | Read More
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