Today, people in Korea and elsewhere are celebrating the birthday of the Buddha.
In England, a bright spring day. The rough winds of May have abated.
A line from John
A forum for this debate explores the challenge of building a "Zero Carbon City".
As posters in this strand explore, the rate of population growth, energy supply and
Writing in the august pages of the Rutland Herald, Vermont state treasurer Jeb Spaulding explains why the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a group of U.S. pension and
In George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, O'Brien tells Winston Smith that if he wants one image of the future he should think of a jackboot stepping
Some events this week show the temperature of the times.
Yesterday General Electric, the world's largest company by market value, it would double its research budget on environmentally
Everyone is welcome to join the discussions in the forum of openDemocracy's debate on the politics of climate change. Please be aware the following rules apply:
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Making the headlines on BBC online today, Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation accuses the British government of being slow in contributing to two United Nations funds which are
The Iranian regime is really worried a possible low turnout this time because it'd have serious national security consequences. Therefore they have already started to create an environment
Back on 17 April, Hot Politics! noted the masquerades of Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma (Inhofe and Truth).
Hot Politics! failed to note on 19 April a complete demolition
In his history of the abolition of the slave trade, Adam Hochschild compares the position of anti-slavery campaigners in the eighteenth century to those who say today that cars with
I don't think I've linked to this before. This very cool site is called The Annotated Times and it shows you who is blogging current New
Here's a bit more techie-optimism for you.
Actually, I think some might call it cyberterrorism. It's a new technology that enables thousands of people to ring
