Recent work, including a video from the March of the Beekeepers and discussions on Google Glass, Hugo Chavez, Kenya and Tunisia.
Entries Tagged as 'environment'
Recent bits
May 13th, 2013 · No Comments · Journalism, Middle East
Tags:Beekeepers·bees·chavez·debate·environment·Google·google glass·hugo chavez·Kenay·Kenyatta·Tunisia·Venezuela·video
Fracking discussion
December 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Journalism
VoR’s Tom Spender discusses fracking with Nick Grealy, a self-proclaimed ‘shale gas missionary’ who runs the No Hot Air website; Vanessa Vine, campaigner for the protest group Britain & Ireland Frack Free and a resident of Balcombe village in Sussex, where Cuadrilla has a licence to frack; Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent for the Guardian newspaper; Tony Bosworth, an energy campaigner with Friends of the Earth.
Tags:discussion·energy renewables·environment·Fracking·fssil fuels·Nick Grealy·radio·Shale gas
Is Indonesia bungling its palm oil industry?
March 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Journalism, Rest of Asia
Indonesia risks bungling the positive social impact that a well-run palm oil industry could have, local NGOs say. Instead of empowering millions of rural smallholders, the Indonesian authorities are cutting them out of the profits by favouring big state-run palm oil production firms and using cheap labour sourced from the hordes of unemployed urban Javanese.
Tags:agriculture·conflict·deforestation·development·environment·human rights·Indonesia·justice·Kalimantan·land·Palm oil·Sawit·Sawit Watch





