A word for the wise…

It’s Australia Day (26 January) as I write this and it is a previous Australian of the Year (1997) Peter Doherty who gets appropriately honoured in profile. He was also a real Nobel Prize winner in 1996, for Physiology and Medicine.  We cannot entirely let go of matters sceptical while we have a loose cannon like Monckton roaming the country. By the way, he is not a member of the House of Lords and he is definitely not a Nobel Prize winner, as he claims to be. See the article headed “Are we losing the fight against the sceptics?” quoting Professor Andy Pitman. We present a global collection of good news stories from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia: investment in renewables, switching to biofuels and how Haiti could be sustainably rebuilt after its devastating earthquake.  There’s carbon neutral wine growing and coffee making going on, and in some places more people are taking a foot off the petrol-driven pedal for a bicycle. Recycling  is making its presence felt on the global sports medal count. And news to come: Expect to hear from US President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address about his plans to promote alternative energy as a way of tackling global warming problems and creating more domestic jobs. In the End, we reveal what you had to say in our 2010 Readership Survey. Happy Days!

                                                              Ken Hickson