The Oddyssey

“Obviously we have no money, We are going back. We cannot staying here anymore,” Jabbar Sattar said in a tired voice. Jabbar a former Iraqi translator for the US military procurement unit embedded at the Iraqi Defense Ministry in Baghdad came to the US 14 months ago with his wife and two sons. In 2006 [...]

MENLO PARK – Mayor Richard Cline recently said that a group of downtown business owners have launched a “silent but stealthy cold war” on two key development projects in the city. Downtown businesses and property owners that have dominated the cityscape for decades are resisting high density office and real estate development along Santa Cruz [...]

What changes does the system need to ensure that billions of people are not left behind in poverty? Deforestation, desertification and water issues are at the heart of civil conflicts that have been ravaging in Darfur, Kashmir and many other parts of Africa, Asia ad Latin America for several decades. According to Prof. Jeffery Sachs, [...]

Biopiracy is describes a situations where corporations from the developed world claim ownership of, or otherwise take unfair advantage of, the genetic resources and traditional knowledge and technologies of developing countries. Many developing countries have drawn political and ethical analogies between perceived biopiracy and intellectual piracy, claiming that whilst the developing world is often guilty [...]

Last month, green enthusiasts cheered when Walmart announced that it would be moving to eliminate non-biodegradable plastic bags from stores across the United States to reduce their collection in landfills. But behold! The supersized grocery giant was passing off a harmful, manufactured textile as sustainable packaging. The Federal Trade Commission put its foot down on [...]

Costa Rica – the global hotspot for amphibian diversity has more than spotted frogs to offer to the world. It is a stellar success story in achieving sustainable growth!.

Sri Lanka has been battling with both the World bank and the IMF, in a bid to push urgent energy sector reforms to the back-burner. The article explores how this “populist procrastination strategy” has threatened the energy security of the country. Warning signals on the energy crisis

Idea a lot of people are excited about corn and other “plant- based” packaging without realizing that some of them are only compostable in commercial sites (of which there are very few) and that many end up in landfills. The wide spread misnomer that these utensils are “easily biodegradable” is also fueling the “use and [...]

Plastic bags, Plastic bottles, clothes spilling out of the drawers, food rotting in the fridge and junk mail piling up on my door step! The amount of waste I have generated in the past three months seem to have quadrupled!… The massive portions at restaurants, the mammoth quantities in which most household items have to [...]