Barbara Kiser's blog posts
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05 Jun 2010 |
Energy, Sustainable markets
So the ‘junk shot’ of golf balls and shredded tyres failed to plug the Deepwater Horizon gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. There was a strange circularity about BP’s idea of fixing this... ›
26 Mar 2010 |
Urban environments
The future sprawls before us — urban sprawl, that is. John Vidal of the UK Guardian says that in 50 years, we could see ‘vast “mega-regions” which may stretch hundreds of miles across... ›
09 Mar 2010 |
Biodiversity
Is the biodiversity drain speeding up? As Juliette Jowit reports in a recent Guardian, a study by Simon Stuart of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival... ›
15 Dec 2009 |
Climate change
A vast blue box dropped onto a tabletop: this is the Koncerthuset, where IIED’s Development and Climate Days came to a close yesterday.
15 Dec 2009 |
Climate change
Day 4 of Development and Climate Days: Mitigation, Finance and the Private Sector
14 Dec 2009 |
Climate change
Thousands of people make up a COP, from campaigners, lobbyists, negotiators and journalists to NGO and UN staff, presidents and ministers. Teresa Fogelberg, however, has a very special... ›
13 Dec 2009 |
Climate change
Day 2 of Development and Climate Days: Justice, Ethics and Humanitarian Issues
12 Dec 2009 |
Climate change, Food and agriculture, Water
Day 1 of IIED’s Development and Climate Days: Land, Water and Forests
11 Dec 2009 |
Climate change
Arriving at any big event in midflow is always disorienting: the play has begun and you’ve come in right after the interval. And piecing together the plot of this year’s climate talks in... ›