Volume 13, No.124-125, July-August 2008
5 Arab green"parties", lots of entertainment little professionalism (editorial by Najib Saab)
17 AFED annual conference
24 Biofuels: is green gold behind the global food crisis? cover story
33 Eventa's puppet theater for water education
34 Iraq booby-trapped one mine planted for every Iraqi
36 Cooking oil for cars from Gaza to Australia a dirty innovation
38 Mobile messages for climate education in Jordan
40 Tunisian beaches compete for the blue flag projects to protect the coastal environment
46 Socotra, the Yemeni fantasy island menaced by modernization
50 Trinidad and Tobago, a festival of colours in the Caribbean
56 Grey water for irrigation successful stories from Jordan, Lebanon, Oman and Yemen
60 Indigenous livestock on the verge of extinction
64 Death by asbestos in an Australian village
65 The great 3-Gorges dam of China
66 Beijing Olympics deprive farmers of water
81 The Arab federation for youth and environment celebrates its 25th anniversary
Letters to the editor 6 Environment in a month 10 UNEP news 30 new science 74 Environment market 78 Green library 80 Calendar 82
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