Vanessa Baird
Co-editor at New Internationalist
Journalist, writer and contributing editor, New Internationalist
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1 week ago |
newint.org | Vanessa Baird
You may not know them by name, but by the time you get up, turn on a device or have your first cup of tea, you will have engaged with multiple critical minerals. As it springs into action, a dozen will come into play inside your mobile phone – materials with exotic names like indium, terbium, gallium and praseodymium, as well as the more prosaic nickel. Each volt of electricity you use will be brought to you along gleaming wires of copper – a cornerstone critical mineral.
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Oct 1, 2024 |
klassekampen.no | Ayman Alazraq |Vanessa Baird |Bjarne Bare |Hanan Benammar |Ellisiv Brattfjord |Knut Bry | +17 more
Den 13. september kom nyheten om at den nye eieren av Deichman, Møller Eiendom, skal huse en egen Oslo-avdeling av Fotografiska. Nyheten ble presentert som om Oslo med dette hadde fått en gave. Fotografiska er visningssteder for fotografi med avdelinger i Stockholm, New York, Berlin, Shanghai og Tallinn. Det er ingen tvil om at etableringen av Fotografiske i Oslo vil gi penger i kassen til Møller Eiendom, men alt som glitrer er som kjent ikke laget av gull.
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Apr 18, 2024 |
newint.org | Vanessa Baird
While Brazil and Colombia are winning plaudits for reducing their rates of deforestation, Peru seems to be setting itself in the opposite direction. The country has the second largest portion of the Amazon, after Brazil, but has lost more than 2.7 million hectares of forest (about the size of Haiti) over the past two decades, according to official figures.
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Dec 4, 2023 |
newint.org | Vanessa Baird
What do you do if you have a powerful neighbour who is contaminating the water you drink, the air you breathe, the land you till, making you and your children and animals ill, and ignoring your pleas to change its ways? What if that entity is supported by some of the richest financial institutions in the world, headquartered thousands of miles away from you?
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Nov 2, 2023 |
newint.org | Vanessa Baird
I don’t think the bunch of young and desperately inexperienced people who, against all conventional advice, launched a consumer magazine on ‘Third World development’ in 1973, could have dreamed that it would still be published 50 years later. I doubt their initial backers, Oxfam and Christian Aid, thought so either. But here it is and here we are.
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