Marine Pollution: Human and Domestic Wastes - and this is a paper Marijke wrote on the serious problems human and domestic wastes cause to the marine environment . It describes the magnitude of the problems in the Pacific and explains how the pollutants affect the pH, the salinity of the seawater and marine resources. Several possible solutions to this pollution problem are also discussed.

Ecology

Palms of the Fiji Islands - The coconut and the Fiji fan palm are by far the best known of Fiji’s palms, but both may actually be old introductions to Fiji. This new book, the first ever published on the subject, describes the 31 species of palm that may be found growing wild in Fiji today; 25 of these are considered native and six are introduced. Half of Fiji’s endemic palms are on the world Red List of endangered plants and are officially categorized as threatened with extinction.

Ecovillages

Aviva, the world’s 6th largest insurance group, has chosen John Talbott as one of their ‘forward thinkers’ in a series of unique film shorts featuring people who have a particularly powerful vision of the future. It will be shown on CNBC Europe television and featured in the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times newspapers in Autumn 2005. See the short film on John and the Findhorn Ecovillage Project at: www.aviva.com