All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

West Wing of Wednesday Night #5
August 13, 2008, 1 Comment

More from our West Wing The “Wednesday Night Salon” series – west coast edition is going for its fifth ...

Denmark: Energy consumption and clean power
August 10, 2008, Comments Off on Denmark: Energy consumption and clean power

Danish Wind Industry Association  August 10 America needs to learn from Denmark, which responded to the 1973 Arab oil e ...

Climate Change & social justice
August 8, 2008, Comments Off on Climate Change & social justice

August 7 2008 Hypocrites Unite! At least we have some ideals to fall short of. George Monbiot The environment is inseper ...

Rainfall alert on global warming
August 8, 2008, Comments Off on Rainfall alert on global warming

August 8 Report: Rainfall extremely sensitive to temperature Heavy tropical rainfall increases proportionately to warmin ...

China, Beijing Olympics II
August 7, 2008, 1 Comment

China, Beijing Olympics ; Tibet Official website The Official Mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games The Olympic Embl ...

India: Hindus & Muslims
August 7, 2008, Comments Off on India: Hindus & Muslims

7 August 2008 Violence runs through this ‘stable’ India, built on poverty and injustice The country the west ...

WEDNESDAY NIGHT #1379
August 6, 2008, 2 Comments

On the eve of the opening of the Beijing Olympics, we have some very special guests, along with the much-anticipated ret ...

Arctic Map shows dispute hotspots
August 6, 2008, Comments Off on Arctic Map shows dispute hotspots

Enlarged map and notes See also Arctic and Antarctic (BBC) British scientists say they have drawn up the first detailed ...

Commodities and co-dependency
August 1, 2008, Comments Off on Commodities and co-dependency

This thoughtful piece by Kenneth Rogoff was written in 2005. In light of the collapse of the Doha round, it bears readin ...

Can This Planet Be Saved?, Paul Krugman
August 1, 2008, Comments Off on Can This Planet Be Saved?, Paul Krugman

August 1, 2008 Please see Uncertainty and Climate change (Op-Ed, NYT) Recently the Web site The Politico asked Nancy Pel ...

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