Recently added articles from New Internationalist:
I had a lot of help and advice when I was preparing this issue.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; Ellwood, Wayne ... I had a lot of help and advice when I was preparing this issue from people who know much more about bees than I'll ever dream of knowing. One was Charlie Parker, a beekeeper who lives near Beamsville, Ontario, not far from Niagara Falls. Charlie generously gave me a day of his time, drove ...
One for all.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; Leigh, John Barrington ... Of course Jess Worth did the right thing by travelling to the Arctic (Some like it cold, NI 424)! It is quite the same thing as people working in conservation all over the planet. If these places are remote, fuelled travel will be necessary. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Plan the future.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; Kadir-Buxton, Andrew ... The Arctic (NI 424) is proof that we need more than the empty words of politicians setting targets for [CO.sub.2] reduction sometime in the future without saying how these will be achieved. All countries need to adopt a near-zero [CO.sub.2] plan now. Former British Prime Minister Tony ...
Jump!(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; Lechner, Brigitte ... Life without a car (Special Feature, NI 424) is like a swim in a lake: you want to do it, you know why you want to do it and so you jump in. There is no need to do a song and a dance beforehand. And it's jolly refreshing. Research has shown that people adjust their daily travel ...
Cut working hours.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; Hicks, Olivia ... 'Life without the car' (NI 424) raised the important issue of working hours. Working long hours is unnecessary and exploitative--obviously it pales in comparison to sex slaves and sweat-shop workers, but we in the minority world work too hard in order to earn more money. Less time means ...
Cuban Five.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; Reimer, Boyd ... In 'Obama's Cuba challenge' (NI 424), Leonardo Fuentes claims that Obama is 'an enemy of empty rhetoric'. I, and many others, will continue to see Obama's rhetoric as ...
Come on, Klaatu.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; Higgs, Rev Rob ... Had Klaatu (Only Planet, NI 424) taken some time to try to understand the Holy Bible that he was reading and read beyond the Old Testament he may have seen things in rather a different light; his notion that the Bible is 'mostly concerned about sex and war and the psychotic ambitions of ...
China's boundaries.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; Ford, M ... In Chris Richards' fascinating insight into China's economic presence in Papua New Guinea (China in charge, NI 423) one sentence, 'China is not interested in expanding the land boundaries of its empire', is not true. For a long time now China has been engaged in rhetoric to the ...
Might not right.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; Prince, Tony ... The remarks about Beijing's peaceful intentions that appeared in a couple of places in your China issue (NI 423) are too optimistic. In fact the Government is actively preparing for war with the US in case a full-scale invasion of Taiwan should become 'necessary'. This would ...
Atrocity in Sri Lanka.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Amantha Perera's article 'The fading roar' (Currents, June 2009) does not mention the killing of an estimated 20,000 Tamil civilians (according to internal UN sources) in northern Sri Lanka as a result of sustained Government shelling during the closing stages of the war, which undeniably ...
Radical and humane.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Your powerful article 'Naked Emperors' (Put people first, Nl 421) seems to embody and further what many of us are concluding is needed at this critical juncture in history. The arguments proposed are similar to a campaign suggested by Michael Albert, co-creator of the alternative economic ...
Wealth in abundance.(Letter from Cairo)(Cairo, Egypt)
Sep 01, 2009; Golia, Maria ... I read these days about how the global crisis is encouraging people to cultivate that great, albeit old-fashioned quality known as thrift. Several 'how-to' books have been released on the subject (Live Well, Spend Less and Eat Well With Leftovers for instance) as if the knowledge of how to ...
Why are they dying? Every third bite of food we consume depends on pollination by bees. But they're disappearing and no-one seems to know why. Wayne Ellwood looks for clues.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... It's safe to say that the late John Muir would not recognize California's vast Central Valley were he to visit today. When the intrepid Scots-American naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club travelled by foot through the region in the 1860s and 1870s he was astounded by the richness and ...
The bees' knees.
Sep 01, 2009; ... Bees are truly amazing creatures, found in just about every region of the world from the Arctic tundra to the towering peaks of the Himalayas. About three quarters of more than 240,000 of the world's flowering plants rely on them to reproduce. * There are more than 20,000 bee ...
Honey is life: the Kattunayakan are tribal people who live deep in the forests of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve in South India. They collect and sell wild honey. Today, settlers from the crowded plains and eviction from the forest reserve threaten both their land and their traditions. Mari Marcel Thekaekara accompanied a group of Kattunayakan on one of their forays into the jungle.(TRIBAL PEOPLES)
Sep 01, 2009; Thekaekara, Mari Marcel ... To visit the honey gatherers we travelled to Chembakolli, a small village in the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary--a 321-square-kilometre park that also happens to be one of the best tiger reserves in Asia. The park is at the junction of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka states on the ...
10 ways to help save the bees!
Sep 01, 2009; ... OVER 90 PER CENT of the world's plants rely on insect and animal pollinators for fertilization and reproduction. Bees are the most common and most important of those pollinators and they're in serious trouble--mostly because of us. We have destroyed much of their natural habitat, planted ...
Backyard beehives: they're booming on Canada's west coast with everyone from high-end hotels to apartment dwellers joining in. Hadani Ditmars reports from Vancouver.(IN THE CITY)
Sep 01, 2009; Ditmars, Hadani ... 'We have a special responsibility,' says master beekeeper Brian Campbell, 'to create and preserve bee-friendly habitats.' Campbell is preaching the bee gospel to a rapt group of mums, tots and members of a local non-governmental organization called the Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA) ...
A stressed world.(extinction)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... THERE ARE NO MORE WILD PLACES. The era of economic globalization and exploding world trade has combined with climate change, population growth, the widespread pillage of natural resources and the expansion of large-scale agriculture to imperil the bio-diversity of our planet as never ...
Looting of a small planet: for the past two centuries years we've been trying to dominate and control the natural world. Beekeeper Philip Chandler argues that it's time to learn from our mistakes, while we still have time.(GOING ORGANIC)
Sep 01, 2009; Chandler, Philip ... Beekeeping in Europe and North America is no longer sustainable in its present form. We need to re-think our management methods from top to bottom--or face an unprecedented decline in the health and strength of the bee population and the end of honey as a pure, healthy food. ...
Boon or burden? Some call it 'live aid'. Some call it 'dead aid'. The aid debate is raging. Vanessa Baird introduces the story so far ...(foreig economic assistance)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Who would have thought that the intricacies of 'international development aid' could provoke such an energetic and public war of words? But then who could have predicted Dambisa Moyo, the Zambian ex-World Bank and Goldman Sachs economist with a talent for stirring things up? ...
