Who is Going to Win at the London Olympics?
Folk wisdom in my native Lithuania suggests, “Admit a pig into a church and it will climb the altar.” It’s possible that the pig is not accustomed to such picturesque surroundings, but I’m inclined to...
View ArticleWorld Cleanup 2012
Clean up World 2012 started in Slovenia For the second time since 2010, Clean Up Slovenia 2012 gathered 270,000 volunteers (that’s 15 per cent of the country’s population!). In Portugal they had the...
View ArticleMelbourne’s Eco-city: Working for a Sustainable Future
The Earth Summit brings together nations large and small, developed and developing. But in numerous ways its theme of sustainable development is as much about the future of the world’s mega-cities as...
View ArticlePoisoning Paradise: Tackling the Ghost Nets Menace
Poisoning Paradise: Cape York’s Chilli Beach, a recent post in this series, discussed the pollution of a remote Australian beach by plastic rubbish including fishing nets: Chilli Beach is one of the...
View ArticleBangladesh’s River Gypsies lose traditional lifestyle
ASIA SERIES : PART 3 The 1 million river gypsies of Bangladesh are known as Bede. They used to live in boats, travelling from one village to another. For hundreds of years the Bede – or river gypsies,...
View ArticleActive Citizens: Communities and their Media in Central and Eastern Europe
The 43-year-old Student Radio of Ljubljana. The women-run Forum TV in Prijepolje. The partly audience-funded popular radio station in Budapest. The Milan-based Radio Popolare. Although based in...
View ArticleEuropean Union Seeks New Solutions to New Challenges
Despite dark clouds of economic crisis looming over the European Union (EU) one can confidently say that hopes are kept as high as they were at the time of its inception. On 9 May 1950, Robert...
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