What’s wrong with crinkles, anyhow? Characterful, and proof of a life lived in the tricycle lane.

What’s wrong with crinkles, anyhow? Characterful, and proof of a life lived in the tricycle lane. © flickr user cjelli under a CC license



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Non-Iron Lady

Anna Chen explores the battle of the non-iron lady vs the planet-hating peacock with an ode to crinkles for good measure. Continue reading »

1st July 2008

Second thoughts:
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Gustavo Esteva, the man who invented 'No Corn, No Country'
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Gaza blog: Hack-istan
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Life is a Picnic
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Gaza blog: peace with no meaning
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Gaza blog: Live to Eat...
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Bluff calling
Posted by Vanessa Baird

Gaza blog: beach life
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Bhopal - hunger strike bites
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Anonymous activist comes clean about fighting dirty coal
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Bolivia divided
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FROM THE ARCHIVES

Breathless in Beijing
Sam Geall reports on broken promises at the Olympics.

The triumph of triviality
Our culture’s tolerance for seriousness has never been lower, argues John F Schumaker.

Kabul lives
A photographic tribute to a city that has plumbed the depths.

Edible Earth
In search of bright ideas, David Ransom begins by learning some very basic lessons about how to design a more sustainable, permanent culture.

The privatization of Patagonia
Rich foreign investors are buying up huge areas of Argentina’s southern wilderness. Tomás Bril Mascarenhas exposes the new conservation conquistadores.


Now available online

June 2008 - Issue 412

Currents

Striking out

Nike workers in Vietnam go on strike

Bullshit in a bottle

say hello to water called Ethos

Scared of a star

West Papua’s push for independence

Fossil foolery

Fossil Fools Day

Who is Harald?

Climate negotiations

Teeny tiny terror

Nanotechnology

Hands off our oil

Unions lead fight against Western oil theft

Dow cowed

Protesters have had a dramatic victory at the site of Dow Chemical’s proposed new chemical plant at Pune, 150 kilometres southeast of Mumbai in India.

Mothers' misery

A contraceptive ban imposed in Manila eight years ago has badly affected the city’s poor.

Journey to Justice

A long way travelled but still far to go on debt relief

Bearing witness to a crime

Saving the Sacred Sea

Russian nuclear plant threatens sacred sea

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