Archive for August 8th, 2006

Conservation Week events

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

It’s Conservation Week and there are a number of worthwhile seminars / lectures / public meetings and debates going on. Here are details of WWF’s events being held at Te Papa, and here is what Wellington Cathedral of St Paul has planned, including a talk at lunchtime today by Anthony Dancer of the Anglican Church […]

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Peak Oil and the crisis in Lebanon

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

On the face of it, it might seem like the looming threat of peak oil and the current bloodshed in Lebanon are two quite separate threats to global security, but a theory posited recently by the President of the Global Americana Institute, Juan Cole, on his blog Informed Comment, makes a compelling case that they […]

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