Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN (IDN) – For innovative young folks, angels are by no means mythical beings or messengers of God as depicted in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and the Quran. They are flesh-and-blood source of equity capital at the seed and early stage of [...]
Solar Yacht Sails Around the World Powered by Nothing More than the Sun
January 24, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. James Burgess of Oilprice.com The World Future Energy Summit has recently finished in Abu Dhabi and for me one of the highlights was the Turanor, an impressive solar powered yacht designed and built by Planet Solar. It is the largest boat of its kind to ever sail [...]
Using Ocean Temperature Differences to Create Renewable Energy
January 24, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. James Burgess of Oilprice.com Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is an idea for creating renewable energy by exploiting the difference in ocean temperatures between the surface and the seabed. The OTEC permit office first opened in 1981 as part of NOAA, America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, [...]
SOUTH SUDAN: Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Conflict
January 24, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jared Ferrie PIBOR, South Sudan , Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) – In the ward of a partially destroyed clinic, Mangiro (who did not give his last name) sat on a bed next to his wounded nine-year-old daughter, Ngathin. The little girl is fortunate, she survived the recent [...]
GERMANY: While Some Waste, Others Feast
January 21, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Julio Godoy HAMBURG, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) – Shortly before midnight last Saturday, Alexander, a 24-year-old law student, stepped out of his small apartment in Hamburg and set off for a jaunt around the local supermarkets to pilfer their garbage containers. Alex, who did not want his [...]
TURKEY: Filtering Out Internet Freedom
January 21, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS ANKARA, Jan 19, 2012 (IPS) – Fifteen respected academics from different Turkish universities signed a declaration in Ankara last week protesting recent state regulations restricting access to a variety of websites on ‘moral’ and ‘national integrity’ grounds. Simultaneously, thousands of angry netizens held street demonstrations in several major [...]
CHINA: Dragon Drags the World In
January 21, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Antoaneta Becker LONDON, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) – Chinese fengshui masters have been busy advising edgy followers how to optimise their luck in the auspicious but volatile Year of the Dragon, which according to the lunar calendar begins on Jan.23. In the West though, Chinese superstitions about [...]
LATIN AMERICA: Human Rights Agenda Has Expanded
December 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) – Although the public identifies human rights organisations in Latin America with resistance to the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s, for years now these groups have broadened their concerns to encompass environmental and other issues. Environmental conflicts over [...]
Gorbachev Forum Looks Beyond Messy Today
December 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN/MONTPELLIER (IDN) – "Dangers await only those who do not react to life," he admonished die-hard comrades in the Soviet bloc who were blind to the writing on the wall and ignored that the people’s yearning for democratic space was impossible to bridle. [...]
Sweden, UK and Germany Top Climate Protectors
December 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kristin Palitza DURBAN, South Africa , Dec 6, 2011 (IPS) – Sweden, the United Kingdom and Germany are the top countries to fight climate change, according to the 2012 Climate Change Performance Index, whose results were published at the United Nations climate change summit today. Sweden, the [...]
