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  1. When water isn't free

    Phil Shannon Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale & Why We Bought It By Elizabeth Royte Scribe, ... 2008 248 pages, $32.95 (pb) Is drinking bottled water the "moral equivalent of driving ... a Hummer", asks Elizabeth Royte in Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It. Pretty close, ...

  2. Emmanuel Barth茅lemy: A revolutionary who became a tawdry tabloid tale

    a machinist in a factory producing ginger beer and soda water, Barth茅lemy, seeking to finance his ...

  3. The story of one activist's anti-fracking stance

    anti-fracking campaigners anti-fracking campaign Jessica Ernst Slick Water: Fracking 鈥 and One Insider's ... writes the Canadian journalist, Andrew Nikiforuk, in Slick Water. During the world's first oil boom ... been dying crops, diseased livestock, exploding homes, flammable water and a noxious parade of ...

  4. The Anzac Myth 鈥 Australia鈥檚 most powerful brand

    price, is a bigger scam than bottled water. Not to be outdone, Rupert Murdoch鈥檚 NewsCorp used the 2002 ...

  5. When radium killed women for profits

    radium-infused tonic water) to treat an injury. 鈥淭he radium water worked fine until his jaw came off鈥, read ...

  6. Stop killing Coke

    didn't, until taken to the Supreme Court), respect the environment (they didn't 鈥 downstream water ... Water Commission, which then handed out dirt cheap water concessions to Coke bottling plants. India also ... has its own water woes as a result of Coke building water-intensive plants (it takes 3.8 litres of ...

  7. When the student press shook established power

    of Death鈥 鈥 signalled the high-water-mark of student publishing dissent. Some issues were slower to ...

  8. Mining fuels dirty money boom, book shows

    of radioactive waste for each tonne of uranium extracted and regularly leaks contaminated water. The ... coral against oil from coalships running aground. Coal seam gas mining poisons water, air and soil with ... depletes underground bore water and uranium mining is insatiably thirsty (BHP鈥檚 Olympic Dam guzzles 35 ...

  9. Climate change's unpredictable impact on geology detailed

    wholesale redistribution of 1016 kilograms of the planet鈥檚 water is shifted between the two hemispheres ... weight at the edges from the newly freed-up water (which weighs more than ice). At over 100 dam ... locations, the weight of reservoir water has been found to increase the risk of seismic activity through ...

  10. The high cost of cheap fashion

    a non-renewable fossil fuel resource is just one of the environmental costs of budget fashion. Water is also ... in bleaching, dyeing, water-proofing and wrinkle-proofing is endemic, arable land for food is lost to ...

  11. Authors take on harmful chemicals

    drinking lots of water (preferably filtered) and eating well (preferably dark-coloured organic fruits and ...

  12. How reef threat was stopped last time

    the coast of Queensland, humans had learned to fear the Reef with its 鈥渢reacherous waters and ... water temperatures and sea levels, greater extreme weather variability and ocean acidification. ...

  13. How brands sell capitalism

    bottled water does no better than tap water. Yet Coke wins in sales thanks solely to its famous logo. ... unions in Turkey and Guatemala, depleting and polluting water supplies in villages in India, and causing ...

  14. The corporate takeover of 鈥榮ustainability鈥

    efficient use of energy and water, then the big brands will become apostles for sustainability. Where there ...

  15. Corporate greed and government neglect in New Jersey

    residents drank the toxic water, ate the tainted fish, breathed the carcinogenic air and swam in the ...

  16. Marr investigates panic in Australia

    hoo-ha鈥 over world leaders gathering at an APEC do (roll out the water cannon, snipers and Darth Vader ...

  17. Novelist tells true Chilean clandestine tale

    Just out of visitors鈥 sights were the junta鈥檚 shock squads in the subway stations, water-cannon trucks ...

  18. Refusing to wave the flag of war

    water rations in punishment cells. The absolutists, who rejected the entire military authority structure ... for the navy. Bread and water, and solitary confinement, was again the familiar price they paid for ...

  19. The state of Israel's bloody foundations

    of Palestinian water supplies with typhoid, rape (widely under-reported) of Palestinian women and ... or water, some dying from hunger and thirst. Refugees who attempted to return to retrieve belongings, ...

  20. Killers for hire

    after the black waters of the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina, where its headquarters is located. ... federal hurricane-related contracts. What New Orleans desperately needed was food, water and housing but ...

  21. Pirates saving the whales

    Australian Navy to pursue and impound Patagonian toothfish poachers from South America in the same waters ... cannons firing water and custard pie filling to discourage boarders, and a "can-opener" (a ...

  22. Capitalism's destructive car mania detailed

    even before it leaves the sales yard. Each car requires huge quantities of water, metal and rubber, ...

  23. The power of ordinary solidarity

    protecting (power stations, water treatment plants, food silos, oil refineries and communication centres) ...

  24. An angry, funny expose of the arms trade

    and that British weapons (fighter jets, armoured personnel carriers, tanks, water cannon) are involved ...

  25. A diarist of the tragedy of war

    shelters, spent a night up to her chest in water and was almost killed many times. Thuy was plagued by other ...

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