Wind power increases
European wind turbines, for the first time, exceeded 1 billion kWh in electric power output in 1992.
Production within Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands alone reached 1.25 billion kWh.
Worldwide wind
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Summer forest campaign
By Natasha Simons
HOBART — The slogan "Yes to EIS" (environmental impact statement) was chalked on every corner pavement in Hobart on January 18, as the Wilderness Society launched its "long hot summer" campaign
Can Cuba Survive?
By Beatriz Pages
Ocean Press. 105pp. $14.95
Reviewed by Sean Malloy
Can Cuba Survive is an inspiring and magnetic interview with Cuban President Fidel Castro by Beatriz Pages, editor of the Mexican weekly magazine
Business as usual
"It's true I expect controversy. But on the other hand, we have capitalism now. We're in business. This is money." Polish entrepreneur Ryszard Stunzo, who plans to open a restaurant in Gierloz (the site of Hitler's Wolf's Lair)
Light Sleeper
A film by Paul Schrader
Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti
A student of French film-maker Robert Bresson's work, whose favourite subject was the lone outsider, US writer-director Paul Schrader develops and redefines in Light
Rush to build reactors in central and eastern Europe
WASHINGTON — More than twice as much government-backed money from the West has been directed at expanding nuclear power in central and eastern Europe as has been spent on either making
Storyteller with a message
Body of Glass
By Marge Piercy
Penguin Books, 1992. 583 pp. $12.95
Reviewed by Steve Painter
Marge Piercy's latest is set in a ruined world made largely uninhabitable by the effects of atomic war and the
The Sharp End
ABC TV, 8.30 p.m. Tuesdays
Reviewed by Tony Smith
During the great depression of the '30s, according to my grandfather, it was common to see families evicted from their homes by the "bailiffs". During the supposedly lesser
By Peter Boyle
It wasn't very long ago that we listened with horror to reports on the so-called "New Zealand experiment". The Australian equivalent could turn out to be worse. Jeff Kennett's "radical" program of labour market deregulation and
LONDON — It is technically and economically feasible, even using conservative assumptions, to halve current global oil use within 40 years, according to a report released on January 19 by Greenpeace.
The use of oil and other fossil fuels
By Andrew Honey
This year, designated Indigenous People's Year by the UN, is the 205th anniversary of the resistance to the invasion of Australia. Just what is Australia's record on indigenous rights 25 years after the 1967 referendum to
Cambodia: the unthinkable
The seemingly unthinkable is becoming plausible. Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge is rebuilding a strength that might enable it to once again impose its terror on the Cambodian people — courtesy of the United
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