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Sunday Times Magazine September 29th 2009
Special Issue
Next week 192 nations will meet at Copenhagen to thrash out a new global treaty on climate change. The environmentalists say that time is running out. The sceptics aren’t so sure. And the cynics think that the summit itself is an environmental disaster, pumping out hot air and masses of wind. So who should we be listening to?
What’s the evidence? This special issue examines the key problems that are facing the planet and what we can do about them
Relative Values – Daryl Hannah, actress and activist, and her uncle Haskell Wexler, Oscar-winning cinematographer
Spectrum – Extraordinary climate-change photographs to be exhibited at Copenhagen, including: coal-carriers in Jharkhand; the sinking of the Maldives; the ravaged lifestyle of Siberia’s Nenets tribe
I’m a believer – Bryan Appleyard was a confirmed eco-sceptic who thought global warming was apocalyptic nonsense. Then he began to have second thoughts
Fame-droppers – Celebrities adore pouting eco-virtues from their pulpits. If only they could give up those private jets and fast cars and practise what they preach
Green houses – Four eco-aware families go under the microscope. How did they do? Did domestic tensions take over?
Present and correct – From hemp- silk lingerie to bamboo bicycles, covetable eco-products are flooding the market
Do try this at home – Ten ways to start reducing your carbon footprint
Clean machine – Meet the man who is Steering us towards the first mass-market electric car with a removable battery
Amazon at war – Eco-disasters in the Amazon have led to catastrophic rates of cancer, prompting Ecuadoreans to mount a $27-billion court case against oil barons
Green gloss code – Forget the great unwashed. Eco-warriors are now dripping with glamour, style and substance
Black days – Does carbon-trading give polluters the green card to do their worst?
Life in the Day – David de Rothschild, billionaire eco-warrior, setting sail from San Francisco in a recycled-plastic boat
The answers are out there – The weirdest and wackiest schemes to save the planet. And some that really work
76 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age.
