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The Girl Effect
Beautiful! The Girl Effect. Thanks to Anothercompany. People who looked at this item also looked at… The world’s water future 2009 60 Years Horizon Related items Donate Your Space Quit Managing Your Time and Start Managing Your Attention HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist Elkouria “Rabab” Amidane wins student peace prize Tackling Climate...
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The truth beyond the food crisis
What’s behind the world food crisis? Yes, the growing world population is a huge contributor to the need for more food. Yes, reckless food- and oil-seed-based biofuel subsidies have added to the problem. Yes, the climate crisis will contribute enormously. Yes, greater prosperity by previously vegetarian consumers in India and China will increase demand for...
Seven Questions: The New World Energy Order
Why are oil prices soaring so high, and will they ever return to Earth? Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency in Paris, explains why peak oil is real, why biofuels are indispensable, and how China determines what you pay at the pump. Read more at Foreign Policy… Photo ©2008 by Anothercompany Related...
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World Refugee Day: Displacement in the 21st Century. A new paradigm
The refugee challenge in the 21st century is changing rapidly. People are forced to flee their homes for increasingly complicated and interlinked reasons. Some 40 million people worldwide are already uprooted by violence and persecution, and it is likely that the future will see more people on the run as a growing number of push...
The One Flag
Adbusters invite everybody to create a flag – free from language and well-worn clichés – that embodies the idea of global citizenship. A symbol that triggers pride and cohesion, whether worn on a backpack, displayed on a door, or flown on a flagpole. A symbol for anyone to declare membership in a growing and vital...
