When did Green Revolution start in India? When were the Samnite Wars? When did the East India Company begin? When did Britain imperialize India? When did the Onin War end? When did Ashoka the Great invade Kalinga? When was the Oyo Empire founded?
In the months following the 2009 presidential election in Iran, protests erupted across the country. The Iranian government violently suppressed what came to be known as the Iranian Green Movement, even blocking mobile signals to cut off communication between the protesters. My parents, who emigrated...
Like the boy in the picture to the right (though the scope and scale of the issues of our time differ greatly), I lived and believed as the majority of society did and was blind to the hurt that my beliefs caused others. For me personally, I was taught at church and seminary that b...
And a friend, who prided himself on being rather good at speaking French, went in to hire the canoes; we decided we needed three, so he asked for "trois canneurs" which he thought was the French for "three canoes". We got our canoes; we spent the afternoon on the river; we came ...
Prior to that, though, I had flown from Cuba to Panama City, and there took a boat ride through the Panama Canal, which was mildly interesting. The “Canal Zone” started in 1850s with a train from the Caribbean Coast on the north to the Pacific coast on the south. The Canal is loc...
Fire: The Original Biomass – When it was doscoverd As long as modern man has lived on planet Earth, he has utilized fire to heat his homes, to cook his food, and for lighting in the darkness. The earliest humans all recognized the critical importance of fire to survival, and many wors...
Disruptions in supply can result in price spikes for thinly traded crops, as was the case with rice in the 2007–08 food crisis. Although critics of food self-sufficiency argue that there should be deeper trading in all crops to avoid such problems, for some staple crops, including rice, ...
In Belgium, renewable energy is a competence of the regional governments. Recent policy reforms include a fading out of tradeable green current certificates and net metering, and the introduction of a prosumer tariff. These reforms caused political commotion, resulting in the dismissal of the ...
Iran Has Yet To Play Its Strongest CardA few days days ago the container ship MSC Aries was boarded in the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces and forced to anchor off the coast of Iran. The incident was overshadowed by the Iranian drone and missile attacks on Israel and was hardly mentio...
t help but notice that something similar is happening in the environmental arena as well. At the World Economic Forum’sFourth Industrial Revolution for the Earth: Sprint to 2020event, the “Forests and Land Use” session was especially significant in exploring how new, supportive enviro-...