Published: October 01, 2008 in Knowledge@Wharton Is water the new oil? The answer is yes, according to a number of economists, business leaders, scientists and geopolitical strategists, who argue that it’s time to stop taking for granted the substance that covers 70% of the planet and makes up a similar proportion of the human body. [...]
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The Tibetan Plateau: the plight of ecological migrants
Feng Yongfeng | October 02, 2008 Herders from the ecologically degraded Tibetan Plateau expected a better life when they were relocated to newly constructed urban homes. But they were disappointed, writes Feng Yongfeng. The grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau are steadily degrading, a phenomenon that the Chinese government blames on the cattle and sheep kept [...]
The True Price of Fiji Water
By William E. Marks, AlterNet. Posted October 2, 2008. The small island nation of Fiji with its population of about 150,000 — is now controlled by a military regime that took control via the 2006 Fijian coup d’état. With such an unstable government — people suffer while some industries prosper. One of these prospering companies [...]
Sowing the seas
By Matthew Knight for CNN LONDON, England (CNN) — Atmospheric physicist Carl Hodges founded the Seawater Foundation in 1977 in an attempt to alleviate some of the world’s most complex ecological problems. Hodges’ unique approach draws seawater inland, irrigating otherwise barren coastal desert regions and turning them green. The results are spectacular, with seawater-tolerant plants [...]
