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Matthew Waxman: After reading Justus Stewart’s recent article about a BIM collaboration I immediately thought of the Earthquake in China, the Cyclone in Myanmar, Hurricane Katrina and...

If not for the presence of the cowsheds, I would not even recognize where I was. According to the owner, the cows do not need to bellow because they are not hungry. They can eat whenever they like through the machines...

The customs agent scanned the travel document (standard procedure) then proceeded to flick through the pages with unusual scrutiny that resembled the efficacy of the erstwhile border police or "Vopos" that greeted me in...

"Rambow" (misspelled in the heat of Will's enthusiasm) is a magnificent merging of edgy comedy, wild squirts of imagination, and the indefatigable spirit of director Garth Jennings, who plunges into this...

At dawn, drinking a cup of hot tea while I scan for hot news from the morning newspaper has become an integral part of my life. Both go hand in hand and I really cannot think of tea without...

The South African Human Rights commission cited the government's lack of response to illegal immigrants, poverty and emergent xenophobia as contributing to these elevated levels of civil strife...

Walk on down. Atop the subway platform is something Seoul doesn't have much of -- empty space. Nothing is here but holes for travelling to and from the actual train, and a wall painting that's hard to miss...

I don't believe that Hillary diehards will go so far as to vote for McCain, not in huge droves anyway. The real danger there is "forgetting" to vote while seated all too comfortably on the couch in front of the TV...

Julia Steinberger: We've seen a wealth of resources out there for connecting one man's trash with the proverbial other man (or woman) out there who will...

Julia Steinberger: Carbon offset dealer TerraPass (with whom we're working on our Clean Slate offsets) recently launched a new version of their flight emissions calculator. The...

I'm aware that stepping on the literary throat of C.S. Lewis is sure to provoke a rabid response, but understand that my beef is not with the source material, but with the director of the two "Narnia" films...

Regine Debatty: Just spent 3 days in Rome to check out FotoGrafia, the 7th edition of international festival of photography which runs until May 25th in several...

The beautiful, black thoroughbred was trying to become only the fourth filly to win the race, and finished an inspiring second to Big Brown. But just a quarter mile past the finish line, she collapsed...

Julia Steinberger: There's a lot of evidence to suggest that sustainability and business are a good match. We've often said as much. Amid the many voices...

I confess, I went to watch this movie because Portman is one of America's prettiest stars, and so is Johansson, and who wouldn't want to be in Eric Bana's position (as Henry VIII), with this pair, the lissom blonde and sultry brunette fighting for your affections?...

The 300-hectare heritage facility seeks to encourage positive, neighborly interaction between the bordering Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian rural communities by rehabilitating the river's polluted flow...

Ben Block: Many predict that the future of job growth lies within a green economy. Expanding renewable energy industries, such as wind and solar, can offer...

They were the takenoko-zoku or bamboo shoot kids. They were named so because they just sprang up sometime in the '80s. One group went in for the '50s-style look of leather jackets, pompadours, slicked back hair...

Craig Neilson: Carbon trading is making headlines in New Zealand with changes to the way the government's proposed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will be phased in over...

McCain was neither a maverick, nor a straight talker. Now, he claims that his Vietnam experience makes a better commander in chief than Obama. The war is too important to be left to a general, much less to...