Two years ago while flying home from a meeting in Chicago I was overwhelmed with a heavy feeling. I wrote these words in my journal: "I can sense a darkness building. It's not the darkness of some evil force coming toward us, but of the light disappearing within us. What can we do, my brothers, to rekindle the fires of creativity and inspiration?" With all the war and poverty and hatred... it began to feel overwhelming. Like mankind was running out of creative fuel - and fresh ideas that would take us to the next level. Read more...
Gentech.nl (www.gentech.nl) is een Nederlandstalige website voor informatie over genetische manipulatie van landbouwgewassen en voedsel. Het doel is laagdrempelige Nederlandstalige informatie over gentechnologie op internet te ontsluiten voor een algemeen publiek waarbij naast de algemene informatie ook (maar niet alleen) de kritische geluiden aan de orde komen. Daarnaast zal in de toekomst meer informatie over duurzame landbouw en voedselvoorziening in bredere zin te vinden zijn. Deze website is een initiatief jaren geleden voortgekomen uit een coalitie van kritische maatschappelijke organisaties waartoe naast A SEED ook Novib, Both Ends, Dierenbescherming, Friends of the Earth Europe, Goede Waar en Co, Hivos, ICCO, Kerkinactie, Milieudefensie, Nederlands Platform Gentechnologie en XminY behoren. De site had in 2007 tussen de 5000 en 9000 bezoeken per maand, in 2008 is dit aantal gedaald naar tussen de 2500 en 3500 bezoeken. Het plan is om dit aantal in 2009 weer op het oude niveau terug te krijgen door de website te promoten. Read more...
Afval is zelden waardeloos en kan vaak worden gerecycled. Zo lopen veel Kenianen lopen rond op sandalen gemaakt van oude autobanden. Fotograaf Lameck Nyagudi maakte er een reportage over. Read more...
With all of the charitable and governmental organizations designed to help people, there are still a lot of people who need help and most don’t know how or who to ask for it. That is why we have created Sent From Ebove.
Sent From Ebove is a website where people can post a wish and ask for help that they need, no matter how small or large the request, for their community or the world to see. There are many generous people who would love to give and help someone directly. We want to bring these people together. We are an online marketplace for altruism and informal philanthropy, connecting people in need with people that can help. Read more...
In a new documentary, Bill Clinton and Michael Dukakis, as well as architecture and energy experts, discuss the problems caused by suburbanization and horizontal development. The DVD, Sprawling From Grace
Getting held hostage inside the sweltering conference room, where it can easily reach one hundred degrees, is not an option. In Ganta, a small town in North-central Liberia, Karen Cheng and I heed the night manager’s warning about the electrical shutdown and building lock down. We gather our hospital administration team from Sierra Leone and establish a makeshift work station outside of the building that consists of basic benches and wooden chairs. For the next hour with computers in laps, we answer questions and walk the group through financial models on the last day of our Finance Workshop to promote transparency and accountability through good financial reporting. Finally, laptop batteries give-out as twilight descends upon the Liberian jungle. Our “students” prepare to head back to Sierra Leone and implement the skills they and 20 other delegates from Liberia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Guinea learned over the past three-days. Read more...
Donna Spector, a veterinary internist in New York, knows what creatures have the key to living the good life. Hint: They typically have four feet. Read more...
When you're an English major, the question everyone asks (after you reply "no" to "Do you want to be a professor?") is "So, do you want to write?" When I was feeling honest, I would answer that I didn't know many English majors who wouldn't love to be authors. It's the secret ambition of all English majors, and many other people, to write. Are you one of them? Since it's a Friday, and you're looking at a little free time over the next few days, why don't you try to jump start your writing this weekend? Here are a few ideas to get you typing away. Read more...
AMSTERDAM, op zondag 5 april wordt het koffiemerk “Meleya” gelanceerd in Amsterdam middels een feestelijk evenement in Ristorante Teatro. Tijdens deze “Meleya Day” maakt u niet alleen kennis met het project, maar kunt u ook genieten van de drie soorten koffie, zowel westerse als Ethiopische muziek en Afrikaanse dans. Read more...
Alex Steffen, Executive Editor of Worldchanging, writes on different categories he distuinguishes regarding environmentalism. Read more...
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