alternative to back breaking water hauling. The kids tell me these are used at music festivals in Europe, but now they’re cheap 
enough to make sense for poor people too. I assume you will now tell me why they don’t work……. More here.
George Monbiot is on a roll (again), with a good piece attacking the ‘atmospheric liposuction’ of geoengineering. But another tirade was even better: Forget the banks or the oil companies, the biggest parasites of the lot are the academic journals, who pay nothing to the authors, charge $30 per article to readers, and gouge huge profits from their operations. Time for a campaign on access to knowledge? More on a potential disruption of the ‘industry’ here. [h/t Rob Cornford]
If you enjoy Oxfam’s periodic spats with CGD and others on health policy, then sign up to Global Health Check, a new blog hosted by Oxfam health wonk Anna Marriott
Alarm bells. Public concern on climate change is falling in the big polluters – the US and China – even as it stays high elsewhere.
“The policies that optimists hope will sustain growth in the emerging markets are unlikely to work, while the policies that would deliver growth are unlikely to be permitted by industrial countries. Growth in the developing world will most likely remain episodic and too weak to propel the world economy.” Dani Rodrik warns against assumptions that emerging market growth is going to drag Europe and the US along in its wake.
The Economist on the rise (or rather restoration) of the emerging markets
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