Margaret Atwood honoured by World Economic Forum

January 28th, 2010

Margaret Atwood, the renowned Canadian author and literary critic whose most recent works of fiction (Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood) painted a bleak portrait of a near future where science runs amok in the name of profit, has been presented with the Crystal Award at the 2010 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland... Read More...

Mountaintop Mining: Coal Baron Debates a Kennedy

Coal baron vs. Kennedy: Activists, industry in mountaintop mining debate for wide US audience

The real audience for the debate between coal baron Don Blankenship and conservationist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was not the hundreds who packed the audience at the University of Charleston.

Those people - coal miners and environmentalists, politicians and local residents - heard nothing new in Kennedy's denunciation of mountaintop removal mining nor in Blankenship's defense of the practice... Read More...