On giving to the charities Heifer International and Smile Train

This post is a little outside the usual frame, but arises from that little bump of curiosity that keeps me writing these posts. Background ...

Water problems in Nepal

There is a growing tendency to assign the cause of weather events that badly impact different populations to climate change, and thereby to ...

P27. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Somewhere in Washington they are looking for incentives for us to buy a new car . The Germans have s...

P20. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. So is the Russian:Ukrainian story over for another year, or ten ? Certainly it has lost the press...

P15. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. Further to the post yesterday on Bulgaria and Slovakia’s options to find natural gas, one of the sug...

Load Shedding, Blackouts or becoming more vulnerable

Load Shedding is one of those terms that has started popping up in more stories than it used to. Mainly they are stories that relate to dis...