Viewpoints

On 27th January three NGOs – Din l-Art Helwa, Nature Trust and the Gaia Foundation – signed an agreement with government to manage the il-Majjistral Nature and History Park, an area about 5 times the size...

Din l-Art Helwa newsletter February 2011 As society evolves, so do concerns about the urban environment. The impact of traffic on both residential and business areas is a chief preoccupation nowadays. Managing the streets is a complicated issue in urban areas...

Times of Malta, 5 February 2011 The environment? It is everything that is not I,” said Albert Einstein when asked to define it. Everything we breathe and all we see, the environment is where we are. It brings us the food...

Times of Malta, 8th January 2011 Construction all over the island seems to have slowed down and recently there has been less controversy over planning matters. Change in the urban landscape is not a bad thing in itself. There has always been...

Vigilo magazine, October 2010 It is very noticeable that a lot of new works are being carried out in Valletta. This will surely lead to a much improved capital city over the next few years. Valletta...

Times of Malta, 17 September 2010 Malta does not have many natural resources or great quantities of them. So why can’t we manage them properly? Just look at the state of three of our existing key resources: land, water and limestone. To...

Times of Malta, 6th July 2010 On March 11, 1960, The Times of Malta reported that a press conference was held at the Palace in Valletta by Barker-Benfield, then chairman of the Tourist Board, to announce new plans to develop Comino...

Times of Malta, 14 June 2010 Letter to the Editor – Environmental Saviour or Destroyer (2) It is no surprise that the meeting on the Ħondoq ir-Rummien project ended in a row. On one side, we have the developers who are looking...