• Adnan Sami’s Dogs

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  • ‘A Janitor Swept a Plastic Cup into His Trash-Can’

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  • Llama Love

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  • Anticipating Schadenfreude

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  • The Cockroach Party of India (Marxist)

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  • Divine Demat

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  • Birds and Cars

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  • US food waste worth more than offshore drilling

    Updated: 2010-07-31 10:24:28
    More energy is wasted in the perfectly edible food discarded by people in the US each year than is available in oil and gas reserves off the nation’s coastlines. Recent estimates suggest that 16 per cent of the energy consumed in the US is used to produce food. Yet at least 25 per cent of [...]

  • Ice-free Arctic won’t soak up more carbon

    Updated: 2010-07-31 10:19:42
    To date there’s been one small grain of comfort for scientists facing the prospect of a seasonally ice-free Arctic. They’ve believed that the new expanses of open water in the summer would absorb more carbon dioxide, going some way to limit warming. But now researchers from the US, China, Korea, Japan and Canada have found [...]

  • UNESCO declares Everglades endangered site

    Updated: 2010-07-31 10:13:04
    A U.N. panel has declared the Florida’s Everglades to be an endangered World Heritage site due to the wetlands’ continued degradation, officials said on Friday. The wetlands’ water inflows have fallen by up to 60 percent and pollution has produced excess plant growth and a decline in marine species, the World Heritage Committee of the [...]

  • World faces condom shortage, UN says

    Updated: 2010-07-31 09:51:41
    If the world wants to reduce new HIV infections by 50 percent by 2015, the United Nations said Wednesday, people will need about 13 billion condoms. The total needed does not include the other half of expected HIV cases, other sexually transmitted diseases or unwanted pregnancies.The UN this week escalated a campaign to persuade governments [...]

  • Pakistan: Are Millennium Development Goals attainable by 2015?

    Updated: 2010-07-31 09:44:04
    Karachi: No woman should have to pay with her life for giving life, hoped United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a recent speech on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs, recognised in 2001 by the UN, aim to eradicate poverty in the developing world. The goals include promoting universal primary education, practicing gender equality, working [...]

  • Warming world: A clearer picture of global warming since the 1850s

    Updated: 2010-07-31 09:30:16
    CHARTS showing the warming of the Earth normally look like spaghetti thrown across the page. This chart, adapted from a compendious “State of the climate” report published by America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week, simplifies things by offering only decadal averages, and making clear the uncertainties by showing the 95% confidence ranges on [...]

  • The Politics of Climate Engineering as a Response to Global Warming

    Updated: 2010-07-30 18:49:03
    I urge you to read this paper by Clive Hamilton, which you can download at http://docs.google.com/fileview It is one of the most important – and terrifying – papers I have read in some time. Not only will it make you an expert on the various schemes for engineering the climate and their prospects for impact [...]

  • UK population ‘to increase by 24%’

    Updated: 2010-07-30 16:55:08
    The UK will be the biggest country in Western Europe by 2050, overtaking both France and Germany, figures showed. The UK’s population will increase to 77 million in just 40 years’ time from 62.2 million today, a rise of almost 24%, the US-based Population Reference Bureau projected on Friday. The surge would make it bigger [...]

  • New Cassava Varieties Promise Food Security in Zanzibar

    Updated: 2010-07-30 11:04:21
    Millions of cassava farmers in eastern and central Africa are in distress from viral cassava diseases that are sweeping across the region and ravaging their crops. But their counterparts on the popular tourist island of Zanzibar are undergoing a quiet revolution using new disease-resistant and high-yielding varieties that were introduced three years ago. The four varieties, [...]

  • Farmland birds at lowest ever level

    Updated: 2010-07-30 10:48:03
    Lapwing numbers have falled by 12 per cent in the last year. Photo: Jean-Paul Ferrero The 19 bird species most commonly found in the British countryside, like wood pigeon, skylark and rooks, have declined by more than 50 per cent since 1966. Conservationists blamed the cold winter and modern farming practices that mean there are [...]

  • The women who choose not to be mothers

    Updated: 2010-07-30 10:29:20
    More women in the developed world are choosing not to have children. So why do friends, family, colleagues and even strangers think it’s OK to question their decision?  We’ve come a long way, baby. Until a few decades ago, it was widely assumed that a woman would marry and, soon after, the stork would arrive [...]

  • Food prices could soar up by 40 percent in next decade, UN reports warns

    Updated: 2010-07-29 22:05:45
    Global prices of food could climb by as much as 40 percent in the coming decade, as the global population continues to surge, a new United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report released today says. The Agriculture Outlook 2010-19 anticipates that wheat and coarse grain prices could jump to levels of between 15 and [...]

  • Shrinking glaciers to spark food shortages

    Updated: 2010-07-28 21:42:04
    Nearly 60 million people living around the Himalayas will suffer food shortages in the coming decades as glaciers shrink and the water sources for crops dry up, a study said Thursday. But Dutch scientists writing in the journal Science concluded the impact would be much less than previously estimated a few years ago by the [...]

  • A Participatory Assessment of Sa Pagsikat Ng Araw

    Updated: 2010-07-28 21:38:25
    Below is a chapter on PMC’s program in the Philippines, Sa Pagsikat Ng Araw, that appeared in the book The Interrelationship of Business and Communication. The Participatory Assessment of was written by Arvind Singhal, Elizabeth Rattine-Flaherty and Molly A. Mayer. Can Communication Be Socially Responsible & Commercially Viable? (PDF, 822 KB)

  • Participatory Assessment of Ahreat Al Amal

    Updated: 2010-07-28 21:27:46
    Below is an article from Investigacion y Desarrollo featuring a participatory assessment of PMC’s program in Sudan, Ahreat Al Amal. The participatory assessment was written by Karen Greiner, Arvind Singhal and Sarah Hurlburt. With an antenna we can stop the practice of female genital cutting (PDF, 1.45 MB)

  • Population Growth

    Updated: 2010-07-28 14:15:33
    Below is a video from MiND TV The growing world population affects food and water supplies, ecological balance and the overall quality of life for everyone. This animation presents a variety of facts and projected statistics to reveal the severity of our growing population.

  • Let the EPA know that their strategic plan for 2011-2015 should include population and sustainability issues

    Updated: 2010-07-27 20:49:29
    To very little fanfare, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its Draft FY 2011-2015 Strategic Plan (PDF) (57pp, 282K) for public review and comment. Thanks to Joyce Tarnow for alerting me to the public comment period, which ends this Friday, July 30th. As of now, there are very few public remarks, so it [...]

  • Time, Water Running Out for America’s Biggest Aquifer

    Updated: 2010-07-27 20:48:02
    Thanks to the NPG Journal for drawing my attention to this article from AOL News. ———————— In 1823, a government surveyor named Stephen Long was working to map out the Great Plains, an expanse of land acquired along with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. He was unimpressed by what he saw. As his geographer wrote [...]

  • The peak oil crisis: China’s latest drought

    Updated: 2010-07-27 20:46:42
    Thanks to the Post Carbon Institute for this article. ———————- We all need to pause for a minute and consider the possible implications of the droughts that are engulfing China. One of these is in the north — Inner Mongolia, and the second more serious one covers most of southwestern China. If the weather patterns [...]

  • World Bank and OECD say water is a finite resource that must be valued at a higher price in order to repair old supply systems and build new ones

    Updated: 2010-07-27 20:45:43
    Thanks to Frank Arundel for this article. ——————- Major economies are pushing for substantial increases in the price of water around the world as concern mounts about dwindling supplies and rising population. With official UN figures showing that 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water and more than double that number do not [...]

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