Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon

Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.

Barry Gardiner
Barry Gardiner

Financial decision-makers at every level are recognising that fossil fuel investments risk their returns being undermined by stranded assets.

Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

Brad Schneider
Brad Schneider

Zion and communities like it have been unfairly saddled with storing our nation's stranded nuclear waste... with no compensation in return. The federal government needs to make right by these communities.

Brad Thor
Brad Thor

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.

Carlton Cuse
Carlton Cuse

'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.

Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

Claire Fox
Claire Fox

There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry 'victim' at the first hint of a situation they don't like.

Colin Firth
Colin Firth

It's a film called 'Kursk', which is a true story about a submarine disaster. There was an accident on board a Russian submarine in the year 2000, and it stranded a large number of sailors. That's next.

Craig Venter
Craig Venter

You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.