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  • Philippines: Population, Poverty, Politics and the RH bill

    Updated: 2012-07-31 14:08:40
    The following article, which argues in favor of the Filipino RH Bill, is authored by a consortium of 30 academic economists (representing nearly all members of the UP School of Economics faculty). As you may know, various forms of “An Act Providing For a National Policy on Reproductive Health and Population and Development” have been [...]

  • Weather Extremes Leave Parts of U.S. Grid Buckling

    Updated: 2012-07-30 14:54:06
    Weather Extremes Leave Parts of U.S. Grid Buckling See: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/us/rise-in-weather-extremes-threatens-infrastructure.html?_r=2 WASHINGTON – From highways in Texas to nuclear power plants in Illinois, the concrete, steel and sophisticated engineering that undergird the nation’s infrastructure are being taxed to worrisome degrees by heat, drought and vicious storms. On a single day this month here, a US Airways [...]

  • Storms Threaten Ozone Layer Over U.S., Study Says

    Updated: 2012-07-30 14:53:24
    Storms Threaten Ozone Layer Over U.S., Study Says See: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/science/earth/strong-storms-threaten-ozone-layer-over-us-study-says.html?_r=1&hp By HENRY FOUNTAIN Published: July 26, 2012 Strong summer thunderstorms that pump water high into the upper atmosphere pose a threat to the protective ozone layer over the United States, researchers said on Thursday, drawing one of the first links between climate change and ozone [...]

  • Singapore Wrestles: Growth vs. Finiteness

    Updated: 2012-07-30 14:53:09
    If you refer to the CIA Factbook on Singapore, you will find that “Singapore has a highly developed and successful free-market economy. It enjoys a remarkably open and corruption-free environment, stable prices, and a per capita GDP higher than that of most developed countries.” Singapore was also the site of a focused family planning program [...]

  • New Population Theatre Production Sells Out at London’s Royal Court

    Updated: 2012-07-30 14:46:01
    Stephen Emmott is a professor of computing at Oxford University and head of Microsoft’s Computational Science Laboratory in Cambridge. He also appears to have sold out the The Royal Court Theatre (Britain’s leading national company) for three weeks, with his theatrical production Ten Billion, a co-operation between himself and distinguished director Katie Mitchell, whose past [...]

  • What’s Sex Got to Do with It? Inconvenient Truths About Educating Girls

    Updated: 2012-07-27 14:34:19
    Kavita N. Ramdas is Executive Director of  Ripples to Waves: A Program on Social Entrepreneurship and Development at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. She also provides leadership and direction for the largest grant-making foundation in the world focused exclusively on supporting international women’s human rights, The Global Fund for Women, where she [...]

  • Video: “No Joke. Choice Matters. Everywhere.”

    Updated: 2012-07-26 14:16:05
    The following video, 3-minutes long, was recently produced by Pathfinder International. Pathfinder notes that while the video may be funny, the reality is not: women around the world face barriers to reproductive health care every single day. In some countries, women need their husband’s consent to get birth control, can’t count on their health care [...]

  • Africa: Leaders Renew Their Commitment to Family Planning

    Updated: 2012-07-26 14:10:33
    In the article below, Sharon Camp, PhD. President and CEO of the Guttmacher Institute, and Babatunde Osotimehin, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, team up to write an overview of the state of family planning in sub-Saharan Africa. See: http://allafrica.com/stories/201207260193.html Africa: Leaders Renew Their Commitment to Family Planning On [...]

  • Population Reference Bureau Releases 2012 World Data Sheet

    Updated: 2012-07-25 15:13:31
    The Population Reference Bureau recently released its 2012 World Population Data Sheet. PRB’s 2012 effort is the 50th edition of this important annual stat sheet. PRB has calculated that the annual natural increase for 2012 will be 84.3 million, the result of 140 million births (4.45 per second) and 56 million deaths (1.78 per second). [...]

  • Dick Smith vs. Rupurt Murdoch’s NewsCorp: Perpetual Growth & Free Speech

    Updated: 2012-07-24 14:30:10
    Dick Smith, once recognized as “Australian of The Year”, and an ongoing advocate for stabilizing populations in both Australia and the rest of the world, has recently taken on Kim Williams, CEO and Managing Director of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp operation. In the letter below, Dick challenges NewsCorp to distribute “Dick Smith’s Magazine of Forbidden [...]

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