Archive | December, 2005
NAFTA's Legacy: An Environmentalist's Worst Nightmare?
by Alexander Daniels, Yale University The rise of regional trade agreements throughout the world has sparked debate between defenders and opponents of liberalized, free trade. It has become common rhetoric among anti-trade activists to denounce the environmental effects of such trade agreements. At the same time, free trade proponents often inflate the potential benefits of [...]
Continue reading...Pushing the Green Button
23. December 2005
by Zinaida Perova, Zinaida Perova, Department of Physics and Mechanics, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University “The Best European Ecological Project” — this is how international experts refer to the Southwest Wastewater Treatment Plant (SWTP), which was opened in St. Petersburg on September 22, 2005. But what consequences await it in the future? Almost a month [...]
Continue reading...Saint-Petersburg's way of fighting floods.
21. December 2005
by Dmitriy Generalnickiy Even though floods bring plenty of destruction in this world, for most modern people it seems ridiculous that a big city could be ruined by a flood. Thatâ€TMs why many governments donâ€TMt take the problem seriously. According to the Financial Times, Mr. Bush acknowledged that authorities had not been prepared for the [...]
Continue reading...Reflections on Attending the 2005 Annual Meeting of the WSCSD
21. December 2005
by Dorothy Zhang Coming back from Boston to Lausanne, I was asked what I have learnt during the unique World Student Community on Sustainable Development 2005 Annual Meeting. At that instant, unexpectedly there wasnâ€TMt anything coming out of my mind. “Learn? What did I learn?†I asked myself several times. After being so touched by [...]
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23. December 2005
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