From the issuance of a religious edict against nuclear power to the emergence of a new Islamic party with a "powerful environmental message," politics in predominantly-Muslim Indonesia have grown significantly greener over the last few years, write Saleem Ali and Haris Hidayat.
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A youth football league that combines sports and education has transformed the lives of thousands of children in Honduras while reducing soaring crime rates in one particularly troubled neighborhood of the capital, Tegucigalpa.
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A Shell ad that says oil sands are a "sustainable" source of energy was
recently slammed by a UK advertising authority for
misleading consumers, reports an environmental watchdog.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (OneWorld) - Power-sharing talks between Zimbabwe’s
President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai
appeared to collapse last night, reflecting an ongoing deadlock over
who will hold real power in the country.
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The livelihoods of India’s waste pickers — who recycle almost 60 percent of country’s trash for a meager income — may be endangered if the government begins incinerating garbage to gain carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol, says Institute for Policy Studies Fellow Daphne Wysham.
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Both candidates are planning to leave a "residual" U.S. military force in Iraq, says the former president of the Council for a Livable World, but Obama’s statements on the issue have so far shown more strategic thinking than McCain’s, explains a military policy analyst for the organization.
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Despite the Monday break down of peace talks and revival of a decades-long conflict in the southern Philippines, this region "has great economic and social potential as
the ‘rice basket of the Philippines,’" writes Asia America Initiative director Al Santoli.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush’s popularity has tanked, but boy can he still bring in the cash. He’s raked in close to a billion dollars, the political fundraiser in chief, during his White House tenure. In all, Bush has personally raised more than $968 million for the Republican Party, GOP candidates and his own re-election campaign and inauguration during his two terms in office. And he’s not finished. He’s now lost a big part of the national spotlight to presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama, but he remains a formidable force on the fundraising circuit, mostly at private affairs closed to the media. His total so far this year is roughly $70 million. Bush spent 90 minutes…
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SAN PEDRO, Paraguay — The commander had a simple message: Disperse immediately or the riot police would scatter everyone with water cannons, tear gas and truncheons. The man leading 10,000 protesters blocking the dirt roadway did not flinch. ”You can do what you want, but you’ll have to come through me first,” said Fernando Lugo, the local Catholic bishop and the organizer of the unprecedented road block meant to pressure authorities to build a badly needed highway linking rural San Pedro in central Paraguay to Asunción, the capital. The commander left to call his bosses in Asunción and the police withdrew a short time later. Two days after that, Paraguay’s Congress, meeting…
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The Democratic Party enlisted Congressman Barney Frank yesterday to skewer fellow Bay Stater Mitt Romney in its series of events to discredit potential Republican vice presidential picks. Romney has been one of the most enthusiastic surrogates of John McCain, who bested him for the nomination. Frank, however, called Romney the “most intellectually inconsistent politician” he has ever known, citing the former Massachusetts governor’s changes of position on abortion, gay rights, and other issues. Romney ran against Senator Edward M. Kennedy from the left in 1994, was a moderate as governor, and moved further to the right…
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