Delhi Metro has connected nearby cities Delhi and Noida. This comes as a great milestone for the project that has been remarkably efficient under Delhi's Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. While many other large-scale government projects in India suffer from corruption and delays, the metro project has remained relatively corruption-free and on schedule. Its relative success so far may be linked its status as a private-public entity, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, which largely stays out of reach of the hands of corrupt politicians and government employees. Perhaps continued praise of successful and effective government undertakings will hold India to a higher standard, allowing it to reach its full potential for sustainable growth and a higher quality of life for all its citizens. Positive but honest media and publicity, such as the Discovery Channel's "24 Hours with the Delhi Metro," will hopefully garner support for effective management in Indian government undertakings, and for this project designed to reduce pollution and traffic. The metro project, however, has experienced at least two fatal accidents in the course of its construction. Continued press coverage of this project and others, alongside public demand for quality results, will decide how well the Indian government will tackle its many challenges going forward.
Nothing is wasted at the London-based charity Africack which collects bodily waste from across London and ships it out to Africa for use as an organic, environmentally friendly fertiliser. From Africack's East London collection point and processing centre, we learn how our own pooh can save the world. Next time you visit the loo, spare a thought for the needy and contact your local Africack centre.Nothing is wasted at the London-based charity Africack which collects bodily waste... more
This December world leaders will gather in Copenhagen to come up with a global response to climate change.
The World Hunger Strike is a voice of all global citizens being raised for global leaders to hear. We as citizens of the world acknowledge the time is now that our global leaders MUST sign a deal that will reduce global emissions that are contributing to climate change that will increase the death by starvation worldwide of our Brothers and Sisters.
From October 18th right up to and including the Copenhagen Conference of the 7th to the 18th of December, the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation is calling for volunteers to register and participate in a rolling global HUNGER STRIKE for periods of 1, 3, or 5 days. (*conditions apply)
On average there is a death from hunger around the world every 3 seconds of every day. During the course of the World Hunger Strike campaign there will have been 1,756,800 people around the world that will have died of hunger
This is a PROTEST everyone - not just the green movement can participate in and we will YELL at world leader and save the lives of many least able to cope with the future the face.
I implore you to take part even for just 1 day.
I will start my 5 day protest this Sunday October 18th at midnight.
Climate change will result in the deaths of many of the world children over the coming years as droughts become more severe and crop losses devastate the world’s food reserves. We are being desensitised by the media and news reports and the views of suffering, to the point where we will abandon the world children in the Third World as time goes by and we look to our own national supplies as first priorities.
PLEASE VISIT THE LINK ABOVE THIS POSTING TO SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.
More than half a million women die from pregnancy and child birth related complications each year.
Nearly all the fatalities happen in developing countries, and experts say the vast majority of deaths are preventable.
Many of these women lack access to health services or simply can not afford it.
The World Health Organisation says that about a third of women in developing countries do not receive care from skilled health professionals, which makes them susceptible to severe bleeding and infections - the main causes of death.More than half a million women die from pregnancy and child birth related... more
For the last century, Cadbury Dairy Milk candy bars have used Ghanaian cocoa beans to achieve their trademark taste and texture. Recently, Ghanaian cocoa has been officially certified Fairtrade certified in the UK and Ireland. Fairtrade requires companies to pay sustainable prices (which must never fall lower than market price) and enables lesser-off countries to improve their position without being taken advantage of.
Also, the Zingolo music video is crazy awesome.For the last century, Cadbury Dairy Milk candy bars have used Ghanaian cocoa beans to... more
The RAM (Remote Area Medical) clinic recently completed it's L.A. area visit. It is a charity of doctors and dentists that travels around the world (and now in America where we supposedly have the "greatest health care in the world") to help out people with no health care.The RAM (Remote Area Medical) clinic recently completed it's L.A. area visit. It is a... more
Despite the recent downturn in global FDI flows and predictions of gloomier times to come for cross border investment flows, there has been a recent increase in FDI by wealthy investors from resource poor countries. These investors have been snapping up large plots of land in developing countries for the development of agriculture exportsDespite the recent downturn in global FDI flows and predictions of gloomier times to... more
The news that international leaders in Italy were not able to commit to strong, binding climate change agreements probably doesn't surprise anybody. "It is no small task for 17 leaders to bridge their differences on an issue like climate change," President Obama said. But tackling an issue of this urgency, complexity and enormity may have an upside.
Right now, leaders of so-called 'developed' and 'developing' countries are at a standoff with good reason: Developed countries have polluted more in the past, but developing countries are rapidly outpacing them. Countries like the United States have much higher emissions per capita, while poorer nations argue that they are simply trying to provide basic services for their people.
When I hear these leaders argue, I wonder if climate change might not also be the issue that ultimately resolves this artificial distinction between developed and developing nations. Could this crisis be a spur to creating whole-world institutions and global solutions?The news that international leaders in Italy were not able to commit to strong,... more
There is nobody else quite like Ryszard Kapuscinski, even though there are others who travel, observe and write about what they see. Mr. Kapuscinski is a Polish journalist whose long career has been spent in far-flung investigations of the underlying aspects of the human condition -- in the Soviet Union, the Middle East, Iran and Africa. Perhaps Mr. Kapuscinski's Polishness is just a coincidence, but his burnished prose has always been marked by that special Middle European gift for unillusioned moral penetration -- it being difficult, after the experiences of history, for any prescient Pole to entertain illusions about the piece of work known as man.
Mr. Kapuscinski begins in 1957 with his first visit to Africa, specifically to Ghana at that joyous, hopeful time when European imperialism was giving way to independent states. He interviews the young education minister Kofi Baako, who brims with good nature and enthusiasm and assures Mr. Kapuscinski in his belief that ''an opposition is necessary.''
Mr. Kapuscinski never loses his affection for the people whose lives he witnesses or his awe at the magnificence of the African spectacle, its oceanic size and variety, the beauty of its landscapes, the heavy weight of its patience and its spirituality. But as the vignettes roll on one after the other, Africa, in Mr. Kapuscinski's version of it, becomes ever more afflicted, more of a disaster. We do not learn in this book what happened in Ghana after the first hopeful years, or what became of Mr. Baako, but in his fragmentary, episodic way, Mr. Kapuscinski shows a continent sliding into governmental gangsterism, dependence on foreign aid, murderous tyrannies and urban populations with nothing to do.
(Rest at link)
So far I'm also reading this book. It cycles you between moments of hope and moments of depressing reality. Its a good book on the realities of a continent that is poorly understood and neglected by people in the West.NY TIMES Book Review
There is nobody else quite like Ryszard Kapuscinski, even... more
Here are some clips from the beginning of our brand new journey into Luwero, Uganda. More to come.
Music: "You Are God" by Charlie Hall. (c) 2007 Sixsteps Records
Words by Charlie Hall, Music by Charlie Hall, Kendall Combes, Dustin Ragland, Brian BergmanHere are some clips from the beginning of our brand new journey into Luwero, Uganda.... more
Le 22 avril dernier, au Salon S.O.S Terre 09, Alternative Channel TV s'est entretenue avec David Chaumel, Assistant logistique chez Cyclo Nord-Sud. Monsieur Chaumel nous a expliqué comment l'organisation québécoise aide au développement durable des villes du Sud en y envoyant des milliers de vélos chaque année.Le 22 avril dernier, au Salon S.O.S Terre 09, Alternative Channel TV s'est entretenue... more
I found this profile and thought it was interesting.
Throughout the early 1990's he played guitar and co-conceptualized the local pioneer Spanish punk bands-RECHAZO SOCIAL and LOPODRIDO. He had his first brush with visual arts doing the band's collage posters and distributing them all over the metropolitan area.Sometime in the 90's he lived nomadically for extended periods in NYC and Toronto.I found this profile and thought it was interesting.
Throughout the early 1990's he... more
multiple simultaneous marches bring attention to the affairs of the world bank & international monetary fund. it was al fun and games until somebody put an eye out. includes critical visual analysis of why it turned so ugly so fast.multiple simultaneous marches bring attention to the affairs of the world bank &... more
1. Hamthrax
2. NAFTA Flu
3. Super Pork Pandemic
4. Flatulent Toxic Ass Amonia
5. COKECANUCK
6. T.R.E.A.S.O.N.
7. Gabriel Teodros
8. Political Boxes
9. What is Anarchy?
these articles and more at the link aboveA.C.R.O.N.Y.M.
*profanity warning*
1. Hamthrax
2. NAFTA Flu
3. Super Pork... more
Watercone is a polycarbonate cone with the capacity to purify up to 1.5 liters of water a day with just a little solar energy. The simple yet innovative solar still was announced as the national winner for the pilot project in Yemen by the International Jury of the Energy Globe 2008.Watercone is a polycarbonate cone with the capacity to purify up to 1.5 liters of... more
A sophisticated medical test that checks for dozens of diseases at the same time can be made from little more than paper and double-sided tape, bringing the cost within reach for the developing world.
The devices, known as microfluidics chips, operate much like a home pregnancy test, in which liquid creeps up a cellulose strip toward a color-changing line. But unlike the pregnancy test, these new chips can split a single stream of liquid into dozens of channels. Each of those canals could be used to perform a different diagnosis for diseases such as HIV, dengue fever or hepatitis.
With a bit more work, the Harvard University chemists who devised the paper test could build a user-friendly, multi-layered microfluidics device with raw materials that cost roughly three cents.A sophisticated medical test that checks for dozens of diseases at the same time can... more
"Cowboys and Angels": Third annual free northern Michigan benefit concert to battle domestic violence and teen suicides on one of the the poorest American Indian reservations in the U.S.
(Munising, Michigan) - A free benefit concert to battle American Indian teen suicide and family violence will be held on December 13 in northern Michigan.
The non-profit Turtle Island Project (TIP) in Munising is organizing the third annual "Cowboys and Angels" concert to benefit the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society (WBCWS) in Mission, South Dakota – the first Native American domestic violence shelter in the world.
The WBCWS battles domestic violence, sexual assault and an alarming increase in teen suicides on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, the home of the Sicangu Lakota people.
Poverty, depression, a lack of jobs, drugs, alcohol and other social problems are among the reasons behind Rosebud suicides and family violence.
Performing on Saturday, Dec. 13 from 7 - 9 p.m. at the Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore at 104 East Munising Ave. in downtown Munising, Michigan will be Pastor Lynn Hubbard. The concert includes original songs written by Rev. Hubbard and traditional songs of the season.
The WBCWS was founded 30 years ago by a group of courageous Native American women including current executive director Tillie Black Bear.
"The White Buffalo Calf Woman's Society and its domestic violence shelter are vital to address social issues like teen suicide and domestic violence on the Rosebud reservation," said Dr. Hubbard, pastor of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising, MI. "Women and children are treated with dignity."
"The Rosebud Reservation has been described as a Third World Country in America's heartland," Hubbard said. "Social problems on the Rosebud can sometimes seem overwhelming but the answer starts with a person donating money or volunteering their time and praying for the people.”
The TIP has organized numerous free benefit concerts in the U.P. and SD for the WBCWS including two by Iron County-based folk groups, White Water and Duo Borealis.
Over 1.1 billion people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water. When I heard of a water purifier that uses nanotechnology to purify water even from fecal matter contaminated water sources, I couldn't help but test it out the "uncultured" way.Over 1.1 billion people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water. When I... more
