Newsletter articles

Kate Macintosh MBE outlines the environmental standards for new housing in the UK and argues that the bigger problems related to the quality of the existing housing stock are being neglected.

Article from SGR Newsletter 36, autumn 2008
 

Stuart Parkinson and Chris Langley outline SGR’s latest research whose revelations include statistics from across the industrialised world showing the massive imbalance between government R&D spending for military purposes and that for social and environmental purposes.

Article for SGR Newsletter, No. 35, winter 2008
 

Philip Webber, SGR, analyses the latest research on the potential climatic impacts of nuclear war and demonstrates that the firepower of just one of the UK's Trident submarines could be devastating for the whole planet.

Article from SGR Newsletter, No. 35, winter 2008

Steven Schofield argues that investing the billions earmarked for Trident replacement in alternative sectors would more than offset the job losses in the nuclear weapons sector.

Article from SGR Newsletter, No. 35, winter 2008
 

Noel Sharkey, Sheffiled University, gives a stark warning about the potential for a robot arms race.

Article from SGR Newsletter, no. 35, winter 2008
 

Beccie D’Cunha describes two recent, important victories.

Article from SGR Newsletter no.35, winter 2008
 

David Webb suggests current US plans for missile defence may cause more problems than they solve.

Article from SGR Newsletter, no. 35, winter 2008
 

Iran is under scrutiny: Western governments claim its nascent nuclear power programme masks plans for nuclear weapons development. Frank Barnaby, Oxford Research Group, assesses the validity of the West's claims and argues that use of military force against Iran's nuclear programme will only make matters worse.

Article from SGR Newletter, no. 34, summer 2007

The ingenious use of mirrors and DC electrical grid technology could provide a significant new source of power from desert sunlight. Gerry Wolff explains.

Article from SGR Newsletter no. 34, summer 2007
 

GM potatoes are being trialled at a site in Cambridgeshire, with more planned. Eva Novotny explains why we should be on our guard.

Article from SGR Newsletter no. 34, summer 2007