Archive for August, 2010
Beyond the deluge
14Aug10
When I was in Bonn, Germany in June for the Deutsche-Welle-arranged Global Media Forum conference on Climate Change, one of the keynote speakers was a 12-year old boy. Felix Finkbeiner of Plant for the Planet, a climate protection network for school-age children, acted on an idea he had three years ago to plant 1 million [...]
Filed under: Environment, Social Issues | 11 Comments
Tags: climate change, Pakistan floods
A time for governance
04Aug10
As Fatima Bhutto or @fbhutto said on Twitter on August 2, ‘And the president buggers off to Europe on a five star jaunt. Typical. Violence hits Karachi this evening too.’ I would not put it in exactly the same words, and am not a great fan of the author/aspiring Daughter-of-the-East, but it must be said [...]
Filed under: Environment, Foreign Policy, Politics, Social Issues | 9 Comments
Tags: ANP, Asif Ali Zardari, MQM, Pakistan, Pakistan floods
