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This bi-monthly magazine focuses on current issues in energy, population, biodiversity, agriculture, climate change, the economy, politics and sustainability in general.

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Palm oil.(LIFE - CYCLE STUDIES)
July 1, 2009... Overview People have shimmied up the oil palm to reach its prickly red fruit for thousands of years. Native to West Africa, Elaeis guineensis contains two distinct oils used in a variety of dishes. The Industrial Revolution provided a boon for African farmers, who supplied London's...

Cultural survival.(FROM READERS)(Essay)
July 1, 2009... There is one perspective I continue to find remarkably unrepresented in virtually all forums that address sustainability issues: the selective forces acting on human behaviors. This is the field of sociobiology. The basic principle of evolutionary theory is that whatever genetic...

Water pricing.(FROM READERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2009... "Water Wars: Is Water a Human Right or a Commodity?" [March/April] gives a good overview of some water issues, but dwells too much on the privatization debate. Today, the privatization debate is not the same color as it was some years back, at least not in Asia. With 90 percent of the...

Beyond the tailpipe.(FROM READERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2009... Neil Kolwey ("Planes, Trains, and Automobiles," March/April 2009) provided a good analysis of tailpipe emissions from transportation from an individual family perspective. However, looking only at tailpipe emissions means missing about one-third of transport emissions and results in an...

Global mercury negotiations commence.(EYE ON EARTH)(Brief article)
July 1, 2009... At a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) meeting in February, more than 140 countries agreed to reduce global mercury pollution through a multilateral treaty. "Today we are united on the need for a legally binding instrument and immediate action towards a transition to a low-mercury...

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