Archive for August, 2007

Of Beetles, Rivers and German Engineering

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Some years ago I borrowed a friend’s Volkswagon beetle and drove to Sydney from my home town of Melbourne. On the way back I had decided to stop in at Mount Oak. I had been given vague directions by a friend in Melbourne who claimed he had been there. Mt Oak was at that time […]

The dreams of our leaders are built on the nightmares of our broken bodies…

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

According to research at Cornell University:

40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution Of the world population of about 6.5 billion, 57 percent is malnourished, compared with 20 percent of a world population of 2.5 billion in 1950 Nearly half the world’s people are crowded into urban areas, often without adequate sanitation, […]