Geo-Engineering the Atmosphere: A Necessity or an Easy Way Out?
4th May 2017
Viissi | InDepth Series London is “eclipsed with such a cloud of sulphur as the sun itself is hardly able to penetrate,” wrote the 17th century writer John Evelyn.[1] The same city would later fall victim to one of the most devastating air pollution events in history: In 1952, a smog of sulfuric acid killed […]
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Substandard Shipbreaking: A Global Challenge
October 17, 2017Viissi with NGO Shipbreaking Platform, Brussels Every year around a thousand commercial ocean ships reach the end of their service life and are broken down to recover steel. Only a fraction of end-of-life vessels is handled in a safe, sustainable manner. ...Read More >>MYTHBUSTERS: Why Eating Fish is no Better for the Environment than Meat
August 24, 2017
EDITOR’S BLOG “Which causes more greenhouse gas emissions, rearing cattle or driving cars?” So begins a 2006 report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations about the harmful effects of the production of meat on the environment (read ...Read More >>Silence Please: The Issue of Underwater Sound Pollution
July 3, 2017
EDITOR’S BLOG In 2011, 19 pilot whales stranded off the coast of Scotland. This is just one out of many such events that have taken place over the past decades. The reason why these kinds of mass whale strandings occur is, however, ...Read More >>Viva La Agricultural Revolución! Urban Agriculture in Cuba
May 22, 2017
Urban Agriculture and Sustainability | Post 2/6 Sun, cigars, communism and Che . All about as Cuban as you can get. The largest island in the Caribbean undoubtedly holds distinct charm. But what travel guides fail to mention about this tropical ...Read More >>Rotting Cores: Cities and Systems. The Space for Urban Agriculture.
April 24, 2017
Urban Agriculture and Sustainability | Post 1/6 Cities are the culmination of human prosperity and ingenuity; the melting pot of culture and identity; and the newest biome of our planet – the ‘concrete jungle’. But within this analogy, the emphasis rests ...Read More >>The Environment and The Law: Current Outlook and Shortcomings
April 5, 2017
Civil Society and Legal Change | Part 1/4 Overview As an individual in a highly organized, institutionalized and controlled society, is there any way that you can affect its direction? Do you feel compelled to influence progress in society, or is that ...Read More >>Rape in the Bosnian War: An end to Impunity?
March 29, 2017
Part 4/4 The 1990s marks a period of action and reaction to wartime rape. It was a period that witnessed two highly publicized rape campaigns throughout the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. It was also a period that saw the creation of ...Read More >>The Rape of Germany
March 2, 2017
Part 3/4 The invasion of Germany has historically marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War or, put differently, the beginning of the triumph of good over evil. Yet history seems to have forgotten the wave of evil that ...Read More >>