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The Reckoning

Wherever Blair goes, our campaign ensures that he can never be free from the fear of arrest...

What else can you do? When the entire administration is engaged in a criminal act, when there is no clear separation of powers between the government and the judiciary, when those appointed to hold the government to account are as scary as a litter of kittens, where do you turn? Do you appeal to the Attorney-General’s office to prosecute itself?

The forensic failure of the Chilcot Inquiry illustrates what we learnt from the banking scandals: self-regulation doesn’t work. The independence of ...

The White Goat Transforms Office Paper into Toilet Paper

Unplggd reports on a machine that can transform waste office paper into rolls of toilet paper.

It’s called the “White Goat”, manufactured by the Nakabayashi company of Japan. With the addition of a little water, the White Goat will shred up waste paper products and spit out a functional roll of toilet paper.

While the end product may be a little rough around the edges, and the machine is a little unwieldy for the average user – the idea behind this machine is admirable.

Watch a video demo below:

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Iceland Scores at the Top of the 2010 Environmental Performance Index

Environmental researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities released the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland last month. Iceland came in first, while the U.S. trailed behind at a distant 61^st, dropping from 39th in 2008. 

This was the third edition of the EPI that ranks 163 nations based on a variety of environmental performance indicators.  Categories include: environmental health, air quality, water resource management, biodiversity and habitat, forestry, fisheries, agriculture, and climate change.   

Iceland, which derives most of its power from geothermal energy and hydropower, got high marks on ...

Why Militarizing Aid in Afghanistan is a Bad Idea

Along with several other international NGOs working in Afghanistan, Oxfam last week published a powerful paper on the damage being caused by the militarization of aid. In many ways it resembles the debate on how to ensure that Haitian reconstruction builds, rather than undermines, its battered state.

In the last half hour, one Afghan woman died from pregnancy-related complications, another of tuberculosis and 14 children perished, largely from preventable causes. Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, the humanitarian and development needs in Afghanistan remain acute.

Undoubtedly, Afghans have seen some improvements, particularly in the expansion of access to ...