World saved … planet doomed

New Statesman - Green activists are seeing the global economic crisis as an opportunity, but the truth remains: high economic growth cannot be reconciled with limited resources.

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Can democracies deal with climate change?

Eurozine - Rising energy costs and the eco-social consequences of climate change are causing anxieties about the future to increase, while trust in the ability of political elites to solve these problems is evaporating. Reaching eco-political targets calls for more participation of citizens as active architects of their society, write Claus Leggewie and [...]

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World’s first transplant of a whole organ grown in lab

Telegraph - Surgeons replaced the damaged windpipe of Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old mother of two, with one created from stem cells grown in a laboratory at Bristol University. Because the new windpipe was made from cells taken from Ms Castillo’s own body, using a process called “tissue engineering”, she has not needed powerful [...]

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Saving the planet by eating New Zealand apples

reasononline - Local food production does not always produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions. For example, the 2005 DEFRA study found that British tomato growers emit 2.4 metric tons of carbon dioxide for each ton of tomatoes grown compared to 0.6 tons of carbon dioxide for each ton of Spanish tomatoes. The difference is [...]

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Treating tumours - Golden slingshot

Economist - A second generation of nanoparticles has entered clinical trials. Some are so good at hiding their contents away until they are needed that the treatments do not merely reduce side-effects; they actually allow what would otherwise be lethal poisons to be supplied to the tumour and the tumour only. Others do [...]

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Obesity crisis fuelled by lack of cooking skills, Oliver warns

Guardian - Britain’s obesity epidemic transcends class because for the first time in history a large number of people of all incomes cannot cook, Jamie Oliver told MPs at Westminster yesterday.

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Working Together for a Green New Deal

Nation - The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work. In the framework of a Green New Deal, the government would become a powerful partner to the problem solvers of the world–and not the problem makers.

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