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April 22, 2024 Commentary

On Earth Day and Amid Record Temperatures, Few Care About Our Precious and Fragile Home

Our planet is in peril like never before, and livestock farming is fueling climate change. Eating habits need to swich to plant based foods.

June 11, 2023 Commentage

Waking Up

We may be collectively slumbering towards a path of environmental destruction but at least some of us are trying to ring the alarm bells.

May 8, 2023 Interviews

Spain’s Proportional Representation System Is Outrageous and Must Be Changed: Yolanda Morales Pérez

PACMA spokesperson says Spain’s government is all talk and no action on a range of issues, and that bullfighting may be on the way out.

April 19, 2023 Commentage

Do You Live an Ethical Life?

This Earth Day, the world is in a worse state than ever, but few among us care about the harmful choices we make that impact our planet.

August 28, 2022 Commentary / Health & Wellness / Travel

Flying on Fumes

Obesity rates are soaring, but the good news is that toxic foods like meat and dairy may be on the way out, saving health and the planet.

November 14, 2021 Reportage

Gran Canaria’s Al Fresco Sex Scene Has Many Hot and Bothered

Men searching for sex in the protected Maspalomas Dunes are breaking the law and despoiling a protective reserve amid a lack of policing.

November 9, 2021 News

‘Action on Climate, But Don’t Ask Us to Change’, People Say

By William J. Furney As the battered climate change talks in Scotland drag into another soggy week and many lose interest in what environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has already dismissed

October 25, 2020 Commentary

Europe Takes a Bite Out of ‘Vegan Burgers’ and Finds Them to Its Taste

By William J. Furney Fancy a “vegan tube”? How about a “veggie disc”? These were the meaty issues European politicians were digging into this week as they chewed over proposals

June 21, 2020 Commentary

The Meaty Coronavirus Problem Few Want to Acknowledge

By William J. Furney Are people willing to put up with mass death and destruction, on a global scale, because they can’t do without their addiction to meat — and

October 5, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Courageous Greta Thunberg Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

By William J. Furney Whether Greta Thunberg wins the Nobel Peace Prize next week for her environmental campaigning is irrelevant — because the Swedish organisation with its money from the

August 3, 2019 Commentary

It’s Time for a Global Food Revolution

By William J. Furney What’s the essential, absolute best diet for people? No one seems to know. Is it meat? Just plants, maybe? Or nuts or fish or a combination