October 4th, 2007
Green buildings are no longer the craze of the building industry; they are becoming rapidly mainstream. The latest ‘green building’ to join the list is a building in Athens:
The five-story structure in southern Athens produces zero emissions, uses no fossil fuel and meets virtually all its own energy demands — in winter and in summer [...]
April 9th, 2007
Immigration has suddenly become a hot button topic in the U.S. political scenario and even Senators from northern and midwestern states vying for the Presidential position are trumpeting their views on strict immigration control. The Democrats have been largely silent or at least ambivalent about immigration control. While most of them believe that the issue [...]
February 22nd, 2007
The HPV vaccine issue in Texas is a classic policy example of ends versus means with a little bit of wacky ideological mixed in for good measure. The genital human pappillomavirus (HPV) is known to cause cervical cancer among women and the chances of an average person getting the disease is quite high. “Since it [...]
January 18th, 2007
In spite of the fact that humans occupy less than 1% of the total land available on Earth, land scarcity is an omnipresent urban reality. Partly due to urban aggregation behavior and availability of conducive habitable spaces, the fight for space especially in urban areas has been intense. Be it the ever-growing slums in Mumbai [...]