By Alexis Hood
Yesterday the New York Times took on oil giant, Trafigura. The paper reports that Trafigura used Abidjan in the Ivory Coast as a dumping ground for highly
By Kanishk Tharoor
Astor Place: once the gateway into New York punk, crack and the bubbling East Village; now home to $12,000,000 "living units".
In cities,
By Jessica Reed
We blogged about him cycling. We blogged about him wanting to make a difference for the environment. Let us introduce you to WebCameron, David Cameron's
By Jessica Reed
Linda Grant, a writer who has been previously published by openDemocracy, just won the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage.
The British journalist and writer
By Tan Copsey
George Monbiot’s new book Heat poses a number of challenging questions. Among targets are the usual suspects, including representatives of major emitters. However after reading a
By Jessica Reed
Think-tanks used to be a very rare breed in France, but for the last decade they have starting to appear in the political and academic landscape,
by Kanishk Tharoor
For Basque separatists, who earlier this week vowed to persist with their armed struggle for full independence from Spain and the creation of a Basque socialist state,
By Josh Gregory
At college I used to boil eggs in my kettle, not because I wanted to save energy, but because I was lazy. This site takes the concept
By Jessica Reed
Another 'Terror law' was voted by the US Congress yesterday. Its vagueness and lack of precise definitions makes room for the 'tough questionning'
By Josh Gregory
In the context of environmental problems, we have grown accustomed to expect bad news, so I was surprised to read in the newspapers this morning that the
Friday is Blog of the week Day, and Tony Curzon Price wants to tell you about O'Reilly's radar:
Probably my favourite tech pundit blog. Tim O&
The Berkeley campus is what a campus should be. It mixes the ramshackleness of student life at the Southern end, with some wonderful places for quiet reflection to the North,
