International Youth Council India Chapter
IYC India Chapter endeavors to extend the initiatives taken by International Youth Council and work towards MGDs and empower youth.
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Photographer Mandy Barker collects plastic cast off by the oceans’ massive garbage vortexes and makes beautiful (and, when you...
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“Nobody is telling male reporters to stay home despite the fact that they have been beaten, kidnapped, and killed globally.”
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Imagine a world without Facebook
Like ir or not, Facebook has been very influential in a number of ways. What would life be like without it? -
Time to go to the zoo! Our office in the Rizal province of the Philippines runs a daycare center for underprivileged children and, last Friday, the...
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In case you were worried that the Arab Spring would spread into Saudi Arabia – one of...
Photographer Mandy Barker collects plastic cast off by the oceans’ massive garbage vortexes and makes beautiful (and, when you think about it, horrifying) art.
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As a strong minded, opinionated Libertarian it wouldn’t take much guess work to determine where I stand on government social welfare programs. I am as radically opposed as possible. I feel that social welfare bleeds the budget, burdens tax payers and helps to…
How to make overpopulation OK
The U.N. says humanity hit 7 billion today, a milestone that’s generating a lot of buzz about overpopulation. But according to a new U.N. report, we should focus more on the quality of human life than the quantity of it.
A crowded world’s population hits 7 billion
The half a million babies born around the world on Monday pushed the global population to the milestone of 7 billion.
Pregnancy and childbirth complications are among the leading causes of death among women living in developing countries, according to the World Health Organization. Each pregnancy magnifies the mother’s health risks, especially when she doesn’t have access to health care.
Breaking: Pebble Mine project shut down. Mining lobbyists lose millions. Local efforts prevailed. Huge environmental win in Alaska today!
NRDC: “(I)n a historic result against enormous odds, the Save Our Salmon initiative has prevailed.
In the Lake and Peninsula Borough of southwest Alaska, where the massive Pebble Mine is proposed to be sited by a consortium of foreign mining companies, the residents have approved a prohibition against large-scale resource extraction – like the Pebble Mine — that would destroy or degrade salmon habitat in their region.
And, most remarkably, they did so despite an intense campaign of fear funded by the Pebble Partnership falsely charging that the initiative “will drive Lake and Pen families away to find work, force schools to close and drive up the cost of food and fuel as the local economy shrinks even more.”
Source: NRDC
For background, read/listen to NPR’s report yesterday: Pebble Mine Development Polarizes Alaska.”
See also the Pebble Mine wiki and read about the legal battles, lobby efforts, and salmon habitat issues.
When Ideas Have Sex
The power of free trade, free association, the division of labor, and choice.
Let MNN’s Idea Lab help you find a green resolution!
Though I’m not into carbon stuff, I really like this design…
Global Carbon Footprint.
Via Ottmar Amann.
