AlertMe is a security system...but not just any security system. This new technology, released in January of 2008 can monitor doors and windows without the annoying wires and drilling before hand. Instead, AlertMe uses small sensors placed at strategic points throughout the home.
How about your energy-saving needs? AlertMe has taken care of that too. In September, they announced a new application that will use an energy monitoring SmartPlug, which will allow users to control devices automatically from remote locations. Read more...
Hoe duurzaam zijn onze dagelijkse boodschappen? We kopen vooral wat we nodig hebben en wat lekker is. Maar de productie en handel van dagelijkse voedsel- en drankproducten kent veel oneerlijke aspecten. Fairfood zet zich in voor de verbetering van wereldwijde arbeidsomstandigheden, een einde aan milieuschade en een eerlijke wereldhandel. Read more...
Tien kinderen van 14 kiezen het duurzaamste gebouw van Amsterdam. Kinderen van Nu, Dutch Green Building Council, de Gemeente Amsterdam en de Provincie Noord-Holland reiken tijdens het openingsprogramma van het 9e Sustainability Congres op 27 november in de Rai in Amsterdam een prijs uit voor het meest duurzame publiek toegankelijke gebouw van Amsterdam. Read more...
You've heard the expression "raining cats and dogs", but for one central California woman, the part about cats is almost literally true....It looks like a storm of cats rained down upon Lynea Lattanzio's 12-arcre ranch where she feeds and cares for over 600 feral and abandoned cats. Lattanzizo keeps the cats alive and healthy in hopes of having them adopted to good homes. Read more...
...Or so a study has come to believe. In a study focusing on the state of Alaska, Dr. Alexander Wagenaar, a professor at the University of Florida's Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, concluded that while higher taxes on alcohol can make a night out more expensive, it can also save lives.
Based on the idea that high taxes prevent some drinkers from perhaps over-buying, the study, which spanned nearly three decades is fairly decisive. And looking at all that information caused each researcher to develop a key eye when examining death certificated from 1976 when it began to 2004. By tracking the number of deaths, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded study showed the relationship between high alcohol tax years compared to low years. The the results were startling. Read more...
Christians...Muslims..Jews, and people of all different faiths are coming together to write a document called the Charter for Compassion. Throughout the next four weeks, the Charter will come together with the help of participants all over the world who speak many different languages. Many religions leaders from all over the world have already lended their voices and support to the Charter, but anyone is allowed to participate. The goal of this document is to inspire religious people to focus on what brings them together with those of different faiths, instead of what divides them. The final document will involve all major world religions and will be released in 2009. Read more...
Dr. Binayak Sen is a public heath specialist, and national Vice-President of the People's Union for Civil Liberties in the Chhattisgarh state of India. He has won awards for his promotion of human rights and has helped poor people in India maintain health care.
On May 14, 2007 Dr. Binayak Sen was arrested on charges of supporting the Maoist party (for drawing attention to the unlawful killing of several indigenous tribal people in his region). Read more...
Midwestern grocery store cashiers have looked at me, dumbfounded while I tried to purchase a thorny, green, pine cone-shaped vegetable. Well, for the grocers out there, that vegetable is PLU code 4084. And for the rest of us, it's just an artichoke.
The artichoke is a member of the thistle family and originated in northern Africa, southern Europe and the Mediterranean. The Dutch introduced the British to this amazing plant in the 1500's, although it was not brought to the United States until the 19th century. Read more...
Artsen vertellen kinderen op de basisschool hoe belangrijk het is om zuinig met hun lichaam om te gaan. Met het project ‘Je lichaam en jij’ krijgen kinderen van groep 7/8 op speelse wijze voorlichting over het belang van gezond eten, bewegen en de gevaren van alcohol en drugs. Op 10 november gaat het eerste pilotproject in samenwerking met het Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis van start in Amsterdam. Read more...
Bij La Place drinkt u voortaan een eerlijk glaasje wijn. De restaurantketen schenkt vanaf begin december wijn van Stellar Organics Winery, een biologische en Fairtrade wijnproducent uit Zuid-Afrika. De werknemers van Stellar Winery hebben een aandeel van 26 procent in de wijnkelder en van 40 procent in de teelt. Handel onder Fairtrade-voorwaarden betekent voor hen een betere gezondheidszorg, vrije huisvesting en gesubsidieerd onderwijs voor hun kinderen. Tijdens de biologische productie wordt uitsluitend gebruik gemaakt van compost en organische materialen. De wijngaarden zijn in volledig evenwicht met de natuur. Dit komt zowel de gezondheid van de werknemers als het milieu ten goede.
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