Fair trade- not so fair after all!!

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/24/ethical-food-shopping-fairtrade-report

Fracking UK looking even more likely!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27529175



http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/23/fracking-in-tunbridge-wells-where-is-it-going-to-stop



http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/23/fracking-report-billions-barrels-oil-government-cynicism

Giving the forest back to the Awa!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27500689

Watch this film on BBC 'our world' on Iplayer



Trying to get the land back to the Awa

Guatemalans under threat!!!

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/may/21/guatemala-indigenous-community-mega-dam-project






Interesting topical example of an indigenous people under threat from dam construction

North Korea encourages the growing of rice

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/north-koreans-race-to-meet-tough-spring-planting-targets

North Korea is trying to encourage its people to grow rice to try and halt the country's agricultural problems

Brilliant maps of London

http://www.londonmapper.org
A brilliant website!!
Lots of maps of London showing how, income, employment, education levels etc, vary across London boroughs.

Before and after cities

http://justsomething.co/before-and-after-world




Excellent site, showing before and after cities, including Dubai, LA, Shenzhen, china and more

Current SuperPower issues

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/06/superpower-capitalist-world-order-Ukraine






Interesting article on the current situation re Superpowers!!

Brcko in Bosnia- Europes only free city?!!!!

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/may/14/brcko-bosnia-europe-only-free-city

Climate change threatens the Arctic

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/14/climate-change-arctic-security-threat-report

The changing Arctic climate could cause major conflict in the Arctic region.

Impact of humans on the hydrological cycle

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27393811

Over abstraction for irrigation and pumping is causing mountains to lift and valleys to subside increasing seismic activity along the San Andreas fault.

London has the most billionaires of all the cities in the world!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/uk-has-the-most-billionaires-per-population-than-any-other-nation-in-the-world-9350471.html

London has the highest number of billionaires than any other city in the world- 72 of them.
The UK as a whole has 104 billionaires.

The highest ranked Brit is the Duke of Westminster who owns lots of property in central London, other Brits on the list include Sir Philip Green, Sir Richard Branson and Mike Ashley of Sports Direct.

Funky maps of London!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-mapped-house-prices-hedgehogs-and-homelessness--from-the-people-who-brought-you-world-mapper-extraordinary-cartograms-reveal-capital-as-you-have-never-seen-it-before-9351704.html

The size of each borough changes according to the number of specific things, including hedgehog sightings, house prices and homelessness.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2625443/Londons-banking-boom-hedgehog-crisis-revealed-extraordinary-maps-Oxford-University-researchers.html  
more detail here!

 

Do it for Denmark!

http://do-it-for-denmark.dk/

A campaign in Denmark to encourage people to have children!!!
It encourages them to go on holiday because couples are more likely to have sex whilst on holiday in a different place!
Novel, Pro-natalist policy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrO3TfJc9Qw     clip on the policy

http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/mar/30/sun-sex-baby-package-holiday-danes-Denmark

The full story here!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/do-it-for-denmark--competition-calls-for-danes-to-have-more-sex-to-tackle-declining-birth-rates-9218490.html  
and here!

Amazing pics of the Indigenous people of the Siberian Arctic.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2014/apr/28/traditional-life-in-the-siberian-arctic-in-pictures

AMAZING PICTURES, of the Indigenous people of the Siberian Arctic.