In 1989, Francis Fukuyama declared that democracy would eventually emerge as the universal form of human government. The intervening years have given ample ammunition to those who disagree.

Stand up for your future ' respect the environment. That's one of the calls to action by the Lead SA campaign that was launched in 2010.

There are still people who believe that economy and ecology are mutually exclusive systems. How then did the earth thrive for so many millions of years?

Early morning on 24 October in New Zealand a crowd gathered before dawn next to a wind turbine on a mountaintop.

As local elders said prayers to bless the global event, banners and signs were held high to greet the planet`s first rays of sunlight on this most incredible of days.