Are Bio-fuels an Economic Driver for Developing Nations?

Over the past forty years America and Europe have been benefiting through protective policy behaviour in the form of subsidies, and international trade tariffs. This has been at the detriment to African countries, where farmers are unable to get a fair price for their produce.
Farmers globally are now realising the potential monetary gains associated with [...]

The last person to leave may not have any lights to turn out…

My reflection:
It is clear to me that sustainable development won’t make any real progress until almost all of the nations reach a critical state where the global economy becomes paralyzed by the environmental constraints. Until such a point, exploitation of countries whose ecologic limits have not been exhausted will remain a favored alternative. Only then [...]

Interesting Article on the efforts of LDCs

http://allafrica.com/stories/200407150675.html
I thought that this was an interesting article about efforts to raise awareness about sustainable development in LCDs, particularly those where issues such as poverty, hunger, and pollution run rampant. A source in the article states that there can be no sustainable development without efforts to create sustainable urbanization and, without intervention, as many [...]