Politics, World Affairs

The bad news about the future, according to the book, published in 1999, is that without a healthy earth we aren’t going to have a healthy economy or a healthy society. The good news is that we can have all three by making some logical...

With the spectre of a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster looming ever larger at one of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant as a result of the 2011 tsunami, one has to ponder if this, finally, spells the end of the nuclear...

Gaslands is an American film about the the poisoning of water systems that occurs with the drilling process for natural...

In recent years I have become aware of the issue of depleted uranium (DU) and its use by the US Military in Iraq in 1991 and again in the current Iraq war. The photos of birth deformities and stories of suffering resulting from DU shocked me,...

Blowin’ in the Wind, by award winning filmmaker David Bradbury and co-producer Peter Scott is a wake-up film that exposes the genocidal catastrophe of the use of depleted uranium in...

Following is a list of various eco and enviro articles of interest selected from various websites. Please email your favourite eco- or enviro-tech articles and they will be added to this...

The media is full of terror about the potential impacts of a carbon tax, a tax that is being fought just as hard by the mining lobby as the mining tax was. 'It will put miners out of business', 'it will be a job killer', 'it will drive the energy...

One of the major flaws with Kyoto accord was that it pegged nations’ allowed greenhouse emissions to that of 1990, and that we should all aim for 10-20% less by 2020. Or something similar. This is based on very poor...

Since the 1980s the US has spent some $15 billion on storage facilities deep within the supposedly geologically stable Yucca Mountains in Nevada, and still issues arise over the ability to maintain an air- and watertight environment for the minimum...

In the news today, April 3 2012, there was many articles about a report by a group of eminent Australians which advocates wholesale drug reform. Current Minister for Foreign Affairs and former NSW Premier Bob Carr, whose views were considered by the...