Archive for the 'World Affairs' Category

Carbon Clean-up

12/08/2006

The BBC has a diary following Fulcrum Consulting as they take part, along with roughly 400 other businesses, in the 100 Days of Carbon Clean-Up challenge, which is run by the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers (Cibse) with support from the Carbon Trust.

Battling Poverty

9/06/2005

On the day that Bob Geldof announced there would be a new batch of Live Aid concerts, partly to celebrate what had gone before, partly to help pressure the G8 into action, I was having a conversation by email with a friend about fighting world poverty. (That sounds awfully heavy, does everyone discuss topics [...]

Legalisation of Drugs

15/01/2005

BBC 1 and 2 are available via cable in the Netherlands, so I was able to watch the If… drugs were legalised program on BBC 2 last Wednesday. There seemed, to me at least, a strong bias towards legalising drugs and I generally got the feeling it came down on the pro-drugs side (documentaries [...]

A Tsunami of Aid

8/01/2005

I doubt anyone has not heard, or is not aware, of the tsunami that hit Asia over Christmas. Many of the sites I frequent came out in support of the victims in a big way and immediately began either: appealing for money, donating money or providing ways to donate money. There were plenty [...]

Petrolheads

26/04/2004

There has been plenty of coverage of the status of the world’s oil reserves of late. This has brought concern from various sources (mainly the press) and grandstanding from the pro- and anti-oil lobbies. There are reports abound, many say we will soon run out of oil, prices will skyrocket and this building [...]