Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.oisca-international.org/news/default.aspx?nid=91 Mr. (...) Read the original article... More»
Photo Gallery: Guatemalan highlands, Feb 1 & 2
A small group traveled post-delegation to the highlands of Guatemala to meet with women who have been negatively impacted by mining taking place near their community. They told us about damaged houses, contaminated water, communities divided, health problems, and violence. Read the original article... More»
Maintaining the desert’s resources while securing its sustainable growth is everyone’s responsibility (Google / Gulfnews)
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/environment/khalifa-calls-for-greater-desert-conservation-efforts-1.975607 Khalifa calls for greater desert conservation efforts President stresses sustainable development In a speech marking the 15th National Environment Day under the theme ‘The living desert’, Shaikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan … Continue reading → Read the original article... More»
M.I.A’s Bad Girls
I’m feeling a little puzzled by M.I.A’s video for Bad Girls (which originally appeared on her Vicky Leekx mixtape). In what I suppose is intended to be edgy imagery, M. (...) Read the original article... More»
Reverse Engineering the Nissan Leaf’s Range Display
Geeks are textbook early adopters. We can't resist a new gadget, or pushing the envelope to find out what's really possible! I'm no exception to this rule. Recently, our family took delivery of a new Nissan Leaf, a completely electric vehicle. I now breeze by gas stations with $4 per gallon prices and think... More»
How to get people to pay an overdue cable bill
Many types of private-order mechanisms arise in market economies. A New York cable television company, Paragon Cable, has a novel strategy to get its customers to pay their overdue bills. It does not unhook the cable. Instead, using what is supposedly a far more effective bill-collection measure, Paragon runs C-SPAN, with its political... More»
Domestic Violence PSA
Strong traditions have always kept domestic violence hidden behind closed doors. We know that only a few want to talk about it. It’s a vicious circle where the history of violence in many cases ends with murder. It is easy to judge from the outside and say: why did not the woman leave the... More»
This Week in Middle Eastern Conflict… January 25th-February 3rd, 2012.
This Week in Middle Eastern Conflict... January 25th-February 3rd, 2012. Posted February 4, 2012. Compiled by Rebecca Sargent Read the original article... More»
Of Football Underdogs and Politricks
Written by Elliot Ross The knockout phase of the Cup of Nations started this weekend and by next Sunday we’ll have a new champion. Events in Port Said, along with the Zimbabwean match-fixing scandal have made it a dreadful week for African football–but there has not been any question of postponing the remaining fixtures. The quarter-final... More»
Nibbles: Ancient animal DNA, Augustine Henry
Big grant for TC Dublin to create DNA matrix of ancient livestock, will identify parchments too. Kew unites Augustine Henry’s letters with the objects and specimens he collected; agrobiodiversity included. (...) Read the original article... More»
Updates on Pottery
My name is Bruno Sanga I am working to one 0f MSABI project known as pottery.I am a core subproject manager, the project is going on well. We are producing the filter pots with the mixture of clay and rice husk and water. We produce them by using two moulds, a female mould and... More»
Why does Arnold Bread have forty different kinds of bread?
100% whole wheat, 12 Grain, 7 Grain, German Dark Wheat, Health Nut, Healthy Multi-grain, Honey Whole Wheat, Oatnut, Country Oat Bran, Country Wheat, Country White, Country Whole Grain White, Healthfull 10 Grain, Healthfull Flax and Fiber, Healthfull Hearty Wheat, Healthy Nutty Grain, Double Fiber, Double Protein, Grains & More Flax and fiber, Triple Health,... More»
Two US Delegations Endorse BDS and Call for Action in the US
The Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel has been endorsed by two US delegations recently returned from fact finding missions to occupied Palestine and Israel. US Campaign member group US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) organized a delegation of five distinguished scholars for a trip... More»
Border Security: Congressman Cuellar of Texas to host meeting between Defense Department and local politicians and law enforcement
MexicoBlog is on Congressman Cuellar's email list. We received this announcement of his setting up a meeting between the Deparment of Defense and local political leaders and police forces as part of his effort "to transfer technology and equipment from the Department of Defense to federal, state and local first responders." Dear Friends of the 28th... More»
Another bush hunting orphan arrives at Tacugama
We received an urgent call last week from Addax Bioenergy to say that a young, injured chimpanzee had been seen at a village close to their operations and that they were enlisting the help of the police to have the chimp confiscated and brought to Tacugama. After lengthy discussions with the community and the... More»
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