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Complete date: 2008-11-18 06:39:41 2008.11.18 One Labtop per Child Foundation @ Amazon
The XO laptop was designed especially for children. So no matter who they are or where they live, this computer has the perfect features and software to get them excited about learning. Just imagine how the world would change if every child had the tools to unleash their full potential.
added by Breadfly Breadfly  tag  Youth Elderly and Family / Education and Literacy / CSR
Complete date: 2008-11-18 06:35:38 2008.11.18 Five Physics lessons for Barack Obama
Everyone expects the U.S. president to know the difference between Sunni and Shiite, or understand the causes of the financial meltdown. But in today’s high-tech world, many critical issues have more to do with electrons than economics. Here are five short physics lessons for President-elect Obama from the author of Physics for Future Presidents.
added by Breadfly Breadfly  tag  Energy / Environment and Sustainable Development
Complete date: 2008-11-18 06:32:21 2008.11.18 Climate futures: predicting where our actions now might lead
Climate foresight is a valuable strategy, both for helping direct our efforts toward coping with climate change, and for helping us fully grasp the seriousness of the crisis. Although we won't know the future until it arrives, climate futurism takes an educated guess at what the planet and society might look like decades from now, and helps us anticipate the results of our choices today.
added by Breadfly Breadfly  tag  Environment and Sustainable Development / Ethical Living
Complete date: 2008-11-18 06:31:29 2008.11.18 Turning rubbish into dinners in Kibera
Garbage is brought to the community cooker by volunteers shovel itinto one end of a giant concrete oven. At the other end are the hotplates where the community cook and boil water. “It might smell a bit but it doesn’t make our food taste any different,” says Virginia Wamaitha, as she pours sugar into her steaming pan of chai – the gently spiced tea loved by Kenyans. “It will taste just like chai should.”
added by Breadfly Breadfly  tag  Energy / Environment and Sustainable Development
Complete date: 2008-11-18 06:30:03 2008.11.18 Survey shows over-50 likelier to buy Earth-friendly
A number of businesses have already tapped into the desire of older residents for green products to grow their customer base. Researchers at ICOM Information and Communications L.P., a Toronto-based firm that specializes in studying the spending habits of U.S. consumers, found that Americans older than 50 are the most likely purchasers of "green" products. Women older than 50 had the highest percentage using green items - 75 percent - while women 18-20 had the lowest percentage - 19 percent.
added by Breadfly Breadfly  tag  Ethical Living / Environment and Sustainable Development
Complete date: 2008-11-18 06:23:31 2008.11.18 Mandatory calories counts on menus nationwide
Would a national law requiring calorie counts on chain restaurant menus help curb the obesity epidemic, or would we stay in 'Dining Denial'?
added by Breadfly Breadfly  tag  Nutrition and Eating / Agriculture Hunger and Food Security
Complete date: 2008-11-18 06:21:38 2008.11.18 (NGO) World Without War (Singapore)
Group for Singaporeans against wars and armed conflict.
added by Breadfly Breadfly  tag  Human Rights and Conflict
Complete date: 2008-11-17 18:40:04 2008.11.17 The new geopolitics of hunger
diabolic alliance has been formed between oil, automotive and agro-industrial companies to produce agrofuels—the term biofuels is misleading—like ethanol in countries with an abundance of land, sunshine, water and cheap labor. In the last five years, millions of hectares that had been previously dedicated to food production and controlled by farmers were taken over by large corporations to plant monocultures of sugar cane, soy, corn, African palm or sunflower to make ethanol or vegetable oils.
added by Breadfly Breadfly  tag  Agriculture Hunger and Food Security / Fair Trade and Economics
Complete date: 2008-11-16 19:03:22 2008.11.16 Immigrants? Let them in!
Jason Riley, author of Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders and a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, misses Ronald Reagan. He remembers fondly that ‘The Gipper’, as Reagan was known, once said of America: ‘Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange land and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here.’
added by Breadfly Breadfly  tag  Migrants / Human Rights and Conflict
Complete date: 2008-11-16 18:59:12 2008.11.16 Global gender gap shrinks; women 60% of world's poor
The economic, political and educational gender gaps have shrunk globally, with equality between women and men improving in more than two-thirds of 130 countries analyzed in the annual Global Gender Gap Index. The Nov. 12 index was released by the World Economic Forum, a Geneva-based development think tank. Worldwide, women's health and life expectancy, however, keep worsening. The report measures the size of the gender gap in four critical areas of inequality between men and women, including economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political representation, and health and survival.
added by Breadfly Breadfly  tag  Women / Poverty