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  • The Cockroach Party of India (Marxist)

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  • Using soap operas to save the planet

    Updated: 2010-09-02 16:48:36
    PMC featured on Mother Nature Network. http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs ———————– When it comes to the American soap opera, few people will tell you that they’re actually inspired by anything they see in the plotlines or characters. It’s more the ridiculous on-screen drama that sucks people in — offering themes or stories that drag on, episode after episode [...]

  • Solar is cheaper than coal

    Updated: 2010-09-02 16:42:09
    Thanks to Fred Stanback for this article. As Mr. Stanback says, there has never been a solar spill. ———————– Next to Milton Friedman, Pee Wee the landscaper is the most persuasive teacher of energy economics I have ever encountered. Pee Wee had the cheapest lawn service in the neighborhood but we never knew why. Then [...]

  • Mass. study: Wood power worse polluter than coal

    Updated: 2010-09-02 16:41:08
    Thanks to Fred Stanback for this article. ——————– A new study has found that wood-burning power plants using trees and other “biomass” from New England forests releases more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than coal over time. The six-month study, commissioned by Massachusetts state environmental officials, found biomass-fired electricity would result in a 3 percent [...]

  • PMC Featured on Healthcare Technology News

    Updated: 2010-09-02 16:38:44
    PMC is featured this month on the Healthcare Technology News blog. Healthcare Technology News reports on relevant events and examines their broader strategic context with a focus on healthcare technology, revenue cycle management, value, policy, economics and health care reform.

  • UK: Record population increase is ‘the biggest since the Sixties’

    Updated: 2010-09-02 14:53:15
    The population of England and Wales took a record leap upwards last year, official estimates showed yesterday. The number topped 55million  -  a rise of more than 400,000 on the 2008 figure. The 0.74 per cent rise was the highest percentage annual increase since the Sixties. It also meant that the population for the UK [...]

  • Road to cut off Serengeti migration route

    Updated: 2010-09-02 14:46:23
    Look out wildebeest, here come the cars. Tanzania’s government plans to build a commercial road in the north of Serengeti National Park, cutting through the migratory route of 2 million wildebeest and zebra. The road would cut the animals off from their dry-season watering holes, causing the wildebeest population to dwindle to just a quarter [...]

  • Liberia: Something New for the Senior Class - Girls

    Updated: 2010-09-02 14:41:32
    When students return to the classroom at Bopolu Central High School this year, there will be something not seen at the school since it reopened after Liberia’s long civil war: senior-class women. Marking a milestone for a school struggling with a gender gap, eight girls are expected among Bopolu’s 24 seniors. While Bopolu’s primary grades [...]

  • Financing said vital for world climate change deal

    Updated: 2010-09-02 14:37:44
    A global fund to help poorer countries switch to green industrial technology is vital in any new international pact to battle global warming, Switzerland’s top climate change negotiator said on Wednesday. The official, Franz Perrez, was speaking at a news conference on the eve of a two-day gathering of environmental ministers and experts from some [...]

  • Kenya: Camel clinics bring condoms to nomads

    Updated: 2010-09-02 14:26:57
    Photo: Nomadic Communities Trust In the remote and rural district of Samburu, northern Kenya, where paved roads are scarce and motorised transport hard to come by, reaching the mostly pastoralist and nomadic inhabitants with HIV/AIDS services requires an unusual approach. John Lokolale, 21, a Samburu Moran (warrior), said he did not know what the word condom meant [...]

  • Help for Women Who Are Forced to Get Pregnant

    Updated: 2010-09-02 14:23:17
    The old stereotype of the gold-digging hussy who gets pregnant to trap a man into marriage seems to have faded, probably because women are not as economically dependent on men as they once were. But that’s not to say that pregnancy is no longer being wielded as a weapon: researchers who work in family planning [...]

  • The Wrong Kind of Green

    Updated: 2010-09-01 14:47:44
    Many thanks to Joyce Tarnow for this article from The Nation. —————— Slide Show: The Wrong Kind of Green A look at the most questionable ‘green’ organizations that are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world’s worst polluters . The Wrong Kind of Green Why did America’s leading environmental groups jet to Copenhagen and [...]

  • Lincolnshire, UK: Fall in teenage conceptions will benefit region’s young people

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:39:07
    A woman is given a contraception injection A record low in teenage pregnancy figures could signal a brighter future for the region’s children according to health chiefs. The high teenage pregnancy rate was highlighted as a key area of concern in the region’s 2009 health report. But a boost in Long Acting Reversible Contraception procedures following [...]

  • U.N. to study impact of incomplete climate action

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:25:09
    The U.N. panel of climate scientists will look at the costs of “second best” ways of fighting global warming amid doubts that all countries will sign up to U.N.-led action, a leading expert said on Tuesday. Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of the U.N. working group looking at the economics of global warming, said the last U.N. [...]

  • Wheat sends food prices up: FAO Food Price Index climbs five percent in August

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:20:17
    Surging wheat prices drove international food prices up five percent last month in the biggest month-on-month increase since November 2009, FAO announced.  The FAO Food price Index (FFPI) averaged 176 points in August, up nearly nine points from July, FAO said in its latest update on the global cereals supply and demand situation.  The increase [...]

  • UK biofuels ‘falling short’ on environmental standards

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:14:38
    The Renewable Fuels Agency says it is disappointed that the vast majority of biofuels sold on UK forecourts do not conform to environmental standards. The body said fuel suppliers were meeting legally binding volume targets but some were falling “well short” on achieving voluntary green standards.  But since biofuels have had to be mixed into [...]

  • AusAid to channel its resources through One Fund

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:26:37
    Updates on United Nations Activities and Partnerships in Papua New Guinea? AusAID has become the first donor in PNG to sign a Standard Administrative Agreement with the United Nations agreeing to initially channel 29 per cent of their resources through the One UN Fund. The agreement was signed on the 1st of June signifying the [...]

  • Peak Oil and the Myth of Sustainability

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:25:38
    Peter Goodchild One often hears of the need for “sustainability,” and of plans to re-engineer human society in some manner that will enable the production of goods, and the consumption of resources, to extend more or less eternally into the future. Civilization will thereby, we are told, become both more pleasant and more equitable, and [...]

  • Peak Oil, Time, and Population

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:16:11
    Thanks to Peter Goodchild for this article. —————- There is a close relationship between peak oil and population. Since the 1950s there have been many estimates of the rise and fall of global oil production, but it was perhaps inevitable that the shift has been from optimistic to realistic. After all, it is better for [...]

  • Your Letters Needed in Response to Newsweek’s The Parent Trap

    Updated: 2010-08-30 20:18:42
    Thanks to Joel Marx for alerting me to Newsweek’s article by Robert J. Samuelson, called The Parent Trap, urging the U.S. to make it easier for Americans to have more babies. ———————- Among the government’s most interesting reports is one that estimates what parents spend on their children. Not surprisingly, the costs are steep. For [...]

  • Quick Reference Guide to Family Planning Research

    Updated: 2010-08-30 16:10:23
    From the Global Health Council. See http://www.globalhealth.org/sources/view.php3?id=1755&type=newsletter. You can get a copy of the guide at http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Programs/RtoP/FP_Research_Guide/index.htm Quick Reference Guide to Family Planning Research The Research Utilization team at FHI announces the completion of the 2010 Quick Reference Guide (QRG) to Family Planning Research. The QRG, a snapshot of the most-up-to-date findings on a range [...]

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