The way to avoid environmental apocalypse is not to end poverty but to end wealth writes Julia Stephenson

I am very taken by the current edition of The Idler, titled “How To Save The World Without Really Trying” which argues that idleness is eco-friendly and that to save the planet we need to do a lot less.

Do we need to see ourselves in a different light in order to cope successfully with stress?

Every year an estimated 13 million working days are lost because of stress, according to latest figures from the Health and Safety Commission. Stress is believed to trigger 70% of visits to doctors, and is linked to the development of illnesses, such as cancer, heart disease and gastro-intestinal problems.

Formerly No 2 at the UN and now the UK's Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, Lord Mark Malloch Brown continues the discussion started by Alex Evans of the Center on International Cooperation at NYU

Thank you. And I'm glad you're still, even as we get into July, getting such good audience[s] at events like this and I think it shows the concern we all feel about this in a way perfect storm of issues, which has hit Africa - of food, fuel and climate.

So said Vassilis Angelopoulos of UCLA, the principal investigator for the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms mission - or THEMIS

Substorms produce dynamic changes in the auroral displays seen near Earth's northern and southern magnetic poles, causing a burst of light and movement in the Northern and Southern Lights.

By Dwayne Brown

James Brett, reformed drug-user and dealer,  transformed more than his own life when on a trip to Afghanistan, the world's main supplier of opium

When he discovered the need of the locals was purely economic, he came up with an equally lucrative product that had no black market economy- pomegranates!  What we Buddhists call transforming poison into medicine.

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