
Dylan Strain's film-report from Copenhagen.
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8 February 2010: The BBC animation promoting the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, begins with an Inuit athlete launching himself into a snowboarding run and, in the following few seconds, cleverly manages to feature the downhill skiing, ski-jump, toboggan and curling events. Read more... have your say
Dulwich Daisy on The real price of the 'green' Winter Olympics; restive5relic has caused a storm and Peter and Penny answer on Greenpeace and the Chagos Islands: Charles comments on Gerry's response to Ray on Debt contagion spreads; Charles on Britain's debt is 'nitroglycerine'; Charles and Pamela on Scientists made scapegoats for climate change.
Disquieting utopiasArchitect Stuart Barlow is excited by a collaboration between London residents and a Midlands painter to contrast the dreams and realities of life on a council estate.
The ‘Doomsday Clock’ is still tickingSixty-five years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima the threat of nuclear war is as serious as ever. Peter Arkell reviews a new book about the development of the first bomb.
Unravelling complexityNew theories about networking in natural and social systems can help us visualise not-for-profit production and exchange, says Stuart Barlow.
The all-too human hand of conservationLifting the lid on a contentious world lurking behind the doors of museums and studios.
Inspiring a community response to the eco-crisisGerry Gold reviews Local Food, which was inspired by the Transition Town movement.
Artists for the revolutionThe revolutionary decades that swept Mexico in the first half of the 20th century spring to life at the British Museum and reveal a new aesthetic and social order entering the scene.
From love affair to marriageA new Supreme Court ruling to grant corporations the same rights as people affords them "new and unconscionable rights", Colin Gardner reports from Washington.
In a two-part discussion about the American radical tradition, Phil Sharpe looks at two new histories - one about government relief in the 1930s and another about US crowds - but takes issue with their politics.
Gratton Puxon gives an overall picture of the campaign as it enters its seventh year and prepares for a likely series of eviction attempts.
The government of Bolivia, headed by president Evo Morales, has called a conference in April to “analyse the structural and systemic causes that drive climate change and to propose radical measures to ensure the well-being of all humanity in harmony with nature”. When he spoke at the Copenhagen climate summit, Morales held that the capitalist system of production was responsible for global warming. Read the conference call.
The global recession has undermined the illusion in unregulated markets, profits and the economics of high finance. Phil Sharpe looks at important ideas in a new book by Raj Patel about how to redefine democracy and the markets.
New Year's message from Afghanistan.