Month: June 2010

To be clear, the reason I described the discovery of untold mineral wealth in Afghanistan as hopeful is because it has been the glaring lack of natural resources that has made the future look so hopeless for that country. Their...

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. The farmers of the Neleshi Grasscutter and Farmers Association (NAGRAFA) consider themselves not only farmers and businesswomen and men, but also...

*It’s Okay If You’re a Republican. Let’s start with Alaska shall we? Imagine the outrage of this had happened to a Democrat: Former Gov. Frank Murkowski pardoned a select handful of individuals in his last days...

In the long history of American conflict overseas, there is no question that natural resources have played a considerable part. And if the struggle in Afghanistan has begun to seem nonsensical, perhaps this can help put it into...

for those in countries who won’t need their insurance company’s approval to pay for a liver transplant operation: US scientists have created working liver grafts in the lab, and say the research could one day allow...