Teaching Virtual Resistance to Violence
Updated: 2010-11-30 17:52:48
Below is an article featuring PMC’s electronic game, BREAKAWAY, that was published by Inter Press Service
When The Water Ends: Africa’s Climate Conflicts
Updated: 2010-11-30 17:49:40Thanks to Eric Rimmer for sending me the link to this video. To watch it (16 minutes), see http://e360.yale.edu/feature/when_the_water_ends_africas_climate_conflicts/2331/#video For thousands of years, nomadic herdsmen have roamed the harsh, semi-arid lowlands that stretch across 80 percent of Kenya and 60 percent of Ethiopia. Descendants of the oldest tribal societies in the world, they survive thanks [...]Vermont company’s soap operas promote change
Updated: 2010-11-30 17:13:01Below is an article on PMC that ran in the November 30, 2010 edition of The Burlington Free Press. ————————- Vermont company’s soap operas promote change By Tim Johnson http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20101130/NEWS02/101129015/Vermont-company-s-soap-operas-promote-change Tihitena is in labor and in extreme pain. She pleads with the attending midwife to take her to the hospital, but her tradition-bound husband, Gashaw, [...]Nigeria: Contraceptives Stock-Out Puts More Women on the Brink
Updated: 2010-11-30 16:24:14More women are likely to die in Nigeria from complication relating to pregnancies and childbirth unless urgent action is taken to refill the shelves of family planning clinics across the country with contraceptives, reproductive health experts and advocates have said. Dr. Ejike Oji, Nigeria Country Director of Ipas, an organisation that supports Reproductive Health in Nigeria [...]Nigeria’s future clouded by oil, climate change, and scarcity: Part 2, the Sahel
Updated: 2010-11-30 10:23:15Article: http://newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com/2010/11/nigerias-future-clouded-by-oil-climate_19.htmlImpact of the ‘Immigration Decade’ on English Primary Schools
Updated: 2010-11-30 09:18:15The dramatic impact on Primary schools of the massive increase in immigration into the UK in the last decade has been spelled out in a new paper from think tank Migrationwatch. The paper examines the effect of a net increase of more than 2.5 million long-term immigrants from non English speaking countries, between 1991 and [...]Health: Teens take on the toddlers
Updated: 2010-11-30 09:11:42With teenage pregnancy rates in the UK still worryingly high, Rowenna Davis visits a programme with a proven track record of giving at-risk young people a sense of responsibility. A handful of cool-looking teenagers are sitting on a carpet covered in brightly coloured characters. They’re surrounded by toddlers brandishing plastic animals, coloured paper and glue. The [...]New energy sources vital to tackle climate change
Updated: 2010-11-30 09:10:05The president of the UK Royal Society, Lord Rees, has said that it is “essential” for governments to prepare for the worst effects of climate change. “The concentration of carbon dioxide is rising inexorably,” said Lord Rees, “the science is firming up and that tells us that there is a risk of serious climate change [...]Population control to be debated at OFC 2011
Updated: 2010-11-30 09:08:20The political and moral minefield of population control will be debated at the 2011 Oxford Farming Conference running from 4-6 January 2011. Professor Aubrey Manning, Emeritus Professor at Edinburgh University and Patron of the Optimum Population Trust, will set the scene in the main conference by addressing issues of global resources and our ability to [...]2 Million Homes Will Be Needed For UK Immigrants
Updated: 2010-11-30 09:07:15A media report has revealed that Britain will need more than two million new homes over the next 25 years to cope with immigration to the UK. Two-thirds of population growth is directly brought about by immigration. If the immigration influx continues at the current rate, Britain will have to provide 83,000 homes per year [...]Malaysia: ‘Don’t put off sex education’
Updated: 2010-11-30 09:06:08Compared with many countries in the region, Malaysia is better in the areas of maternal mortality and contraception. International Planned Parenthood Federation and East and Southeast Asia and Oceanic Region programme director Romy Arca said this was despite the not very high percentage of Malaysians using modern contraception methods. “Malaysia’s healthcare system is very accessible [...]Arabs face severe water crisis by 2015
Updated: 2010-11-29 21:45:13Thanks to Jenny Goldie for this article. ———————- Lebanon, once considered to have an abundance of water, is threatened with acute shortages as the Arab world lurches toward severe water scarcity as early as 2015. For Lebanon, which has long neglected to take measures to conserve and manage its water resources, the crisis couldn’t come [...]Is the stage being set for new water wars in Africa?
Updated: 2010-11-29 09:53:59With diarrhoea the biggest killer of children in Africa, the urgency of the water and sanitation crisis on the continent is hard to question. But while some NGOs are calling on African governments to make water and sanitation integral parts of their national public health strategies, and fund them accordingly, the African Development Bank (AfDB) [...]A climate journey: From the peaks of the Andes to the Amazon’s oilfields
Updated: 2010-11-29 09:52:52Last month I went on an extraordinary, epic journey through the Andes mountains of Peru and Ecuador. The aim was to record the stories of the largely hidden people on the frontline of climate change, and see how communities and governments are trying to adapt. I began at 16,000ft on the snows of Mount Cayambe in [...]Improving Food Security by Strategically Reducing Grain Demand
Updated: 2010-11-28 21:43:01Thanks to Lester Brown for this book byte. ———————- Improving Food Security by Strategically Reducing Grain Demand By Lester R. Brown Earth Policy Release Plan B 4.0 Book Byte November 9, 2010 After several decades of rapid rise in world grain yields, it is now becoming more difficult to raise land productivity fast enough to [...]The Coming Chaos
Updated: 2010-11-27 21:42:13Many thanks to Peter Goodchild for sending an abridged copy of his new book, The Coming Chaos. You can download a copy here: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5F-idWfw7TeY2U4ZjE3ZmUtYjU5Ny00ZGQ5LTg4YTQtMGVmZjg5ZjQxZGI4&hl=en&authkey=CMDYyYcFIpsos MORI poll reveals divergent opinions on world’s greatest challenges
Updated: 2010-11-26 21:08:05An international poll commissioned by King’s indicates that before nations can tackle several global challenges they first must understand and bridge the gap between their divergent opinions. The poll, conducted in September by Ipsos MORI, asked a total of 7,055 adults, ages 16 to 64, in eight countries two questions online – to identify ‘the [...]“Global Index of Fear” Ranks Overpopulation in Top Five
Updated: 2010-11-26 20:59:07Thanks to the Center for Biological Diversity for this article. ————————- In a recent survey commissioned by King’s College London, overpopulation came up as the fifth-scariest issue facing the globe. The first-ever “Global Index of Fear,” as some have called it, polled more than 7,000 people in eight nations: Australia, the United States, Britain, Brazil, [...]Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment
Updated: 2010-11-25 20:46:26To the Americans on this email list, I hope you have a Very Happy Thanksgiving. For all on this list, may you experience the four freedoms: Freedom of Speech Freedom of Worship Freedom from Want Freedom from Fear For your holiday reading, I send you Al Bartlett’s Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment. [...]Pope says condoms sometimes okay
Updated: 2010-11-24 18:54:01Thanks to Steve Kurtz for this article. ——————— Pope Benedict XVI says that condom use is acceptable “in certain cases”, notably to reduce the risk of HIV infection, in a book due out Tuesday, apparently softening his once hardline stance. In a series of interviews published in his native German, the 83-year-old Benedict is asked [...]