Issue 480

March 2015 - "Renewable Energy"

• GUIDE TO THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES - MARCH 2015

• QUIZ: World energy

From this month's magazine:

• Who will control renewable energy?

• What would a democratic energy system be like?

• Desertec: the renewable energy grab?

• Argument: If you worry about climate change, is it a good idea to have children?

• The TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) - let's not work together

• The problem of race science returns

• Worldbeater ...Narendra Modi

Web exclusives this month:

• Welcome to The Jungle - refugees in Calais

• Photo story: Life in the circle

• Photo story: Norway's Ring of Peace

• A woman can be whatever she likes

From the blogs this month:

• ‘Homeopathy is rubbish,’ says a new report. Are we really sure?

• Prison can be a place to get better

• We have to help small island states eg. Vanuatu and the Maldives

• 'You must have children' says Iran to women

• A university in London wants to stop contact with universities in Israel

• What's more important - arms or renewable energy?

• Buy renewable energy!

• The answers are in the soil

• Climate change - what's happening? - short video

• Great! - something positive in India!

READY LESSONS FROM THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES:

• READY LESSON (for Intermediate learners) : ARGUE BETTER