Editorial: Let’s make 2016 the year of the environment
Losing weight, doing more exercise, cutting down on drinking, stopping smoking, being more pleasant to our neighbours… these are just some of the resolutions that would have been going through people’s minds in recent days. Good intentions…...
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Good planning makes societies more resilient
Malta Chamber of Planners’ council members with Dyan Currie (centre) and Clive Harridge (right). Dyan Currie and Clive Harridge, president and secretary-general of the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP) respectively were in Malta to attend...
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2015 in review: The year environmental and climate issues left their silos
COP PARIS/flickr Analysis: Journalists are starting to connect more dots: population and biodiversity, terrorism and climate, food security and ocean health Call it the grand convergence: Coverage of environmental issues, especially climate change,...
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2015, the year of the green awakening
Civil society emerged as a force to be reckoned with as thousands took to the streets to protest the take up of ODZ land in Zonqor. But will this be enough to counter the lure of investment coming as a result of dishing out cheap public land to...
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Planting of 53 tamarisk trees
During a special event held at Xrobb l-Għaġin Nature Park earlier this month, 64 students from four EkoSkola schools planted 53 tamarisk trees together with consuls from various consulates and other dignitaries representing the Commonwealth...
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Think Magazine Issue 15
One third of the Maltese Islands are covered in buildings, with little consideration for green space and urban design. The Faculty for the Built Environment is celebrating 100 years since it was founded, and recent graduates are now faced with the...
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COP21 Climate Agreement – Moving towards healthier people and a healthier planet
WHO side event at COP21 stressing the importance of integrating health into climate change agreements – Ramon Lorenzo Guinto Paris – On 12 December 2015 at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21), leaders from around the...
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Uncontrolled development risks spoiling Malta’s cultural heritage – former EU commissioner
Former EU commissioner for culture Androulla Vassiliou. Uncontrolled development risks spoiling Malta’s cultural heritage and destroying a “vital asset” for the country, according to the former European Commissioner for culture Androulla...
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FAA Statement on Parliament’s decision on Zonqor and Dock 1
Following Parliament’s hasty decision to hand over public land to the Sadeen Jordanian investors, Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar maintains that the public has been deprived of its land for a pittance. The public has also been deprived of its legal...
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