Archive for July, 2007

Flying straight into climate chaos

Published in Sustainability magazine, Spring 2007

Climate change’s fastest growing contributor requires urgent action, and is being fueled by the banality of modern living, writes Lenny Antonelli

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The road to zero waste

Published in Sustainability magazine, Spring 2007

The minister for the environment has been busy praising his government’s record on residential and commercial waste management in light of a new EPA report, but a whole new approach is necessary if we are serious about conserving our most precious resources, writes Lenny Antonelli

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Tragedy and comedy – An interview with Robert Fisk

Published in Sin, 2005.

Waiting for Robert Fisk is rather unnerving. You expect him to arrive looking forlorn, with a furrowed brow and an air of sobriety that you might think comes with living in the most tragic place on earth for almost 30 years. But the Bob Fisk you expect never shows up.

Instead, a genial and pleasant Englishmen bumbles into the room apologetically, putting everyone at ease. He refuses to take the designated seat behind the front table at a makeshift mini-press conference in the Irish Centre for Human Rights, declaring it to be foreign territory for a journalist, and opts instead to sit with the assembled reporters.

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