Issue 773
News
Analysis
The Climate Emergency – No More Business as Usual conference, held in Adelaide on October 10-11, included 18 workshops canvassing many issues around the politics of the environment: from food production and peak oil, to theories of political change and educational programming. The following article is based on discussion arising from one of these workshops titled “Sustainable solutions”. The presenters in the workshop were Bev Hall from the Australia Cuba Friendship Society, Andrew Hall from the Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network and Margaret Rhode, a member of Urban Ecology and resident of the Christie Walk EcoCity development in Adelaide.
World
Between October 15 and 17, thousands of West Papuans held rallies for self-determination in several parts of this Melanesian nation that has been occupied by Indonesia since 1962.
Culture
Richard Lewontin & Richard Levins
Monthly Review Press, 2007
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By Tim Harford
Little Brown, 2008
264 pages, $35
By Elizabeth Royte
Scribe, 2008
248 pages, $32.95 (pb)
By John Berger
Verso, 2008
142 pages, $26 (pb)