Issue 480 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
March 2015
The great green energy grab
Renewable energy
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: let's not work together
Obama has chosen the wrong issue on which to embrace collaboration, says Mark Engler.
If you care about climate change, should you have children?
Professor Anne Hendrixson and journalist Erica Gies go head to head.
Race science rears its ugly head
Racism disguised as academic research must be robustly challenged, argues Gavin Evans.
Desertec: the renewable energy grab?
Desert solar plants planned for North Africa are just another exploitative resource grab, argues Hamza Hamouchene.
Whose renewable future?
Is big business poised to capture the renewables revolution? Danny Chivers draws up the battle lines.
Take action on renewables
Some ideas and starting points on how you can help build a cleaner, fairer energy future.
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