Stories about Environment from November, 2007
Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica: Art in the Everyday
Thebookmann attends the launch of Jamaica-based artist Roberta Stoddart's exhibition, which “shows a body of work that deals with the subject of discomfort and unseen social obligations.”
Grenada: Walking Trees
Ever heard of trees that can walk? Free Spirit explains.
Hong Kong: Street Market Festival
The last open space wet market in Central Hong Kong is about to vanish because of urban development. Citizen reporter gumpz reports on the recent street market festival for saving the space. He also pointed out that under the existing urban redevelopment plan, with the rise in office and commercial...
China: Yangcheng Lake's Hairy Crab
Imagethief blogs about his recent trip to Yangcheng lake, a place where hairy crab is planted.
China: Child Labour?
The Opposite End of China criticizes the Congressional Executive Commission on China for putting cotton picking under the child labour section.
Ukraine: Multiple Disasters
Orange Ukraine posts a “Multiple Disaster Update” that covers Chernobyl, Kerch oil spill and the coal mine tragedy, and writes separately about the coalition-building and speaker-nominating “mess and disaster.”
Russia: Playing Monopoly
A short note on playing Monopoly in the former Soviet Union and Russia, at Robert Amsterdam's blog.
Brazil: Saving the rainforest and feeding more people
Would you like to hear a fascinating story on how indigenous tribes in Brazil have managed to make extremely fertile dark earth from nutrient-poor yellowish soils, and thus may represent the ability to save the rainforest and feed more people? “The result of such a system would mean better soil,...
Dominica: Cost of Living
Living Dominica thinks that the island has some of the highest prices in the Caribbean.
China: Bankrupt ant farmers prepare to protest
Shenyang was mobbed today with furious ex-ant farmers, former employees of Yilishen, a media darling and one of China's most well-known brands in the health supplement market, as the company has just closed, taking the huge amounts its peasant-class employees had invested with it. The city's ant farming industry is...
Ukraine: Coalition and Other Matters
Orange Ukraine mentions that “NOVEMBER 23 is the new date when the coalition agreement between BYT and OU-PSD is expected to be signed” – and reports on plenty more things that are happening in Ukraine.
U.S., Ukraine: Holodomor Exhibit in NJ
Nash Holos writes about a Holodomor exhibit that has opened in New Jersey and includes “large scale reproductions of the lost diaries including one discovered just last year. These pages paint a picture far more chilling than any on the Holodomor made public to date.”
Armenia: Dark Years
Zarchka at Life Around Me says that former president Levon Ter Petrosian will always be synonymous with the days when Armenia had frequent power cuts. Indeed, she notes, rare power outages in the capital are now jokingly linked to Ter Petrosian's plans to contest next year's presidential election.
Ukraine: More on the Coal Mine Disaster
Foreign Notes writes about the government's reaction to the deadly accident at a coal mine in Donetsk region and translates an article on mismanagement of the mine.
Bangladesh: Farmers and the Cyclone
Bangladesh From Our View on the need for farmers to recover from the devastation caused by Cyclone Sidr.
Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela: Chavez at OPEC
Further Thoughts weighs in on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his open demonstration of religious fervour at the OPEC summit in Saudi Arabia.
Yemen: Indifferent to Weather Warnings
Yemeni blogger Omar Barsawad notes that not many people respond to weather warnings in Yemen.
Ukraine: The Deadliest Coal Mine Accident
Ukrainiana reports on the deadly blast at the Zasyadka coal mine in Ukraine's Donetsk region (80 miners killed, 20 still missing) – and on Yukhym Zvyahylsky, the man who “controls” the mine.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Christmas in the Air
Abeni sees signs that Christmas is coming…
Jamaica: The Road Less Traveled
“It's one of those moments when you stop waiting for something to happen, and you make something happen,” writes Francis Wade, as he sets about helping to fix certain roads in Jamaica.
Kazakhstan: The Big Oil Companies Are Making Concessions
Steve LeVine reports that a fresh concession by Chevron and Exxon Mobil in Kazakhstan is evidence of the shrinking influence of Big Oil. “After years of playing tough guy on the Caspian Sea, the two companies have knuckled under and paid their share of a whopping $309 million environmental fine...
