Issue 470

March 2014 - "Commodities"

From this month's magazine:

• We need commodities

• Problems with dirty oil in Madagascar

• You can't make money and be moral at the same time

• Meet the people who make money from protests

• Let's talk about sex ... in the Arab world

• Country profile: Iran

Web exclusives:

• In pictures: Tibet with a new road

• In pictures: recycling at the Remakery in Brixton

• In pictures: family literacy in the Philippines

• Looking East: can meditation help the West to give up antidepressant drugs?

A selection from the blogs this month:

• The Earth needs a good lawyer

• Standing up to inspire change

• Women with disabilities have two big problems – their disability and their gender

• $500,000 a week? For kicking a football?

• Now no one can believe what the fracking companies say

Ready lessons from this month's articles:

• READY LESSON (for Intermediate learners) : OUR EARTH

• READY LESSON (for Intermediate learners): WOMEN