Poverty is telling you something: your turn is coming.

For my part of Blog Action Day I would like to discuss poverty and sustainable development. We live in a world gone mad. By the hour, the ranks of the starving are swelling. Whilst we stare into an abyss of depleting mineral and ecological resources, pushed from behind by population pressures and the voracious needs Read more about Poverty is telling you something: your turn is coming.[…]

An entry to the Google contest

Google are running a contest on ideas to help humanity. This is my contribution below. What one sentence best describes your idea? (maximum 150 characters) Give charitable foundations who offer water, food and accommodation supply and systems, the possibility to use the unemployed (who get benefits and a bonus) to help. Describe your idea in Read more about An entry to the Google contest[…]

What do drinking water and the environment have to do with each other

What gets me is that we are spending more and more money on cleaning up water to ready it for drinking. Medicines, herbicides etc, are slipping though the purification plants (which themselves require huge amounts of chemicals and energy). The reason we are spending more and more is because we are polluting more and more. Read more about What do drinking water and the environment have to do with each other[…]