World Environment Day 2009
Held every year on 5 June, World Environment Day is a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) initiative to stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment and enhance…
British Expat Newsletter:
2 April 2008
This week: Earth Day – 24 cities around the world turn their lights off for an hour to highlight the problem of climate change
Garbage
Pic of the Week – 5 February 2007 by Pablo González Vargas © 2006 A powerful image from Pablo, who’s based in Mexico. For all society’s…
Backpackers and billionaires
“It used to be that backpacking trips to Fiji involved a bus ride from Nadi to Suva, then a ferry to somewhere like Ovalau, Savusavu, Taveuni or Kadavu. No more.” The Fijian islands are no longer the preserve of luxury cruise holidaymakers…
British Expat Newsletter:
11 January 2006
This week: Water – an increasingly scarce resource all over the world.
British Expat Newsletter:
19 October 2005
This week: Waste – how many of the world’s resources are being squandered, and what some individuals and organisations are (or aren’t) doing about it.