Archived material from historical editions of The Generator
Trend analyst Faith Popcorn believes that many people are shifting away from consumption as the basis of happiness and there will be a trend towards thrift. Here are the actual statements from her web-site Reactions to Cashing Out: Lagom: From the Swedish, most commonly translated as “just enough”, it’s an approach to both design and Continue Reading →
“India is named for the Indus River, along whose fecund banks a great urban civilisation flourished more than 4,000 years ago,” writes American historian Stanley Wolpert in his well-know book A New History of India. But the 3,000-kilometre-long river that is the lifeline of Pakistan’s economy is dying a slow death due to thinning of Continue Reading →
Australian Greens climate change spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne, today called on the Rudd Government to focus its Budget priorities on existing climate solutions such as energy efficiency and renewable energy, not offer up even greater subsidies to the hugely profitable coal sector. Senator Milne said "Prime Minister Rudd’s visit to a coal fired power plant Continue Reading →
Why We Must Reduce U.S. and Global CO2 Emissions 80% by 2025 by David Merrill The period from December, 2007-December, 2009 is perhaps the most important 24 months humanity has ever faced. The Kyoto Protocol is the current operating plan for addressing global warming. It expires in 2012 and has long been considered only a Continue Reading →
Without a framework such as California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard in place to guide the production of biofuels, NSW risks losing an opportunity to cut global warming pollution and minimise environmental damage from the manufacture and use of alternative transport fuels. “It’s disappointing that the current ethanol fuel debate in NSW does not include a Continue Reading →
"All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and even their beasts." This was the religious opinion issued one week ago by Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet Institute, a long-established religious institute attended by students and soldiers in the Israeli settlements of the West Bank. In an article published by numerous religious Israeli newspapers two weeks ago and run by the liberal Haaretz on 26 March, Rosen asserted that there is evidence in the Torah to justify this stand. Rosen, an authority able to issue religious opinions for Jews, wrote that Palestinians are like the nation of Amalekites that attacked the Israelite tribes on their way to Jerusalem after they had fled from Egypt under the leadership of Moses. He wrote that the Lord sent down in the Torah a ruling that allowed the Jews to kill the Amalekites, and that this ruling is known in Jewish jurisprudence.