links for 2009-07-30

Water Planning in Jordan disregards Climate Change – Jordan Environment Watch
(tags: jordan water climate-change development)

Social Media: How We Got Here, Where We're Going
(tags: marketing social socialmedia media management business)

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links for 2009-07-29

Biofuel Photosynthesis Process to Replace Fossil Fuels and Capture Carbon
Joule’s transformative Helioculture process leverages highly-engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO2 to usable transportation fuels and chemicals. The scalable SolarConverter™ system facilitates the entire process—from sunlight capture to product conversion and separation—with minimal resources and polishing operations.
(tags: biofuels solar biomass carbon [...]

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links for 2009-07-28

Water officials address Egyptian concerns over Red-Dead project – Jordan Environment Watch
(tags: jordan israel egypt palestine water development)

GRAIN | Briefings | 2005 | USAID: Making the world hungry
(tags: usaid development geneticallymodified agriculture agribusiness corruption corporate poverty neoliberal)

Boston.com / News / Rebuilding Iraq
(tags: usaid corruption policy development egypt corporate united-states MiddleEast)

BM Opinion: Copts Abroad chief calls [...]

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links for 2009-07-27

مجتمعنا
(tags: egypt arabic auc blog development media society)

More Than 50 Investor Groups, Social Investment Forum Urge SEC to Require Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Disclosure
'More than 50 major investment firms and professionals joined the Social Investment Forum (SIF) today in calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to help strengthen financial markets and foster [...]

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links for 2009-07-23

Why environmentalists are ignoring the government and going directly to the market
on market-based environmental campaigns (mainly, labeling products) in lieu of non-existent or lax government regulation.
(tags: environment sustainability policy activism market)

Study: Use of Breakthrough Chemical-Free Cleaning Tool Equivalent to Saving 93 Gallons of Gasoline and Two Barrels of Oil
device 'activates' tap water (i assume some [...]

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links for 2009-07-17

International Socialism: Gandhi: the man behind the myths
This does not mean he was insincere. [..] Gandhi was totally committed to a united, independent India. He wanted an end to the callous treatment meted out to dalits and low caste groups. He wanted women to be treated with respect, free to marry or not and to [...]

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links for 2009-07-16

Jane Lubchenco on Restoring Science To U.S. Climate Policy by Elizabeth Kolbert: Yale Environment 360
(tags: climate-change climate marine carbon food sustainable)

BBC NEWS | Africa | Are the deserts getting greener?
(tags: environment climate-change climate africa desert egypt water)

Egypt and beyond: Reuters take on the strike wave
(tags: egypt activism labor protest economics politics neoliberal)

Researcher: Middle East Blackberry [...]

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links for 2009-07-15

BBC NEWS | Business | Crude oil's rollercoaster prices
(tags: oil oil-price finance)

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links for 2009-07-13

IFOAM | Consultation on a first draft Position on Seed
"In June 2008, the IFOAM General Assembly adopted a motion instructing the IFOAM World Board to develop a position paper on the use of organic seed and propagation materials in organic agriculture.
The IFOAM head office has been working on the topic since then and has produced [...]

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links for 2009-07-12

BBC NEWS | Africa | Nigerian group claims oil attack
" The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) said it had targeted a pipeline linking Alero creek to a Chevron terminal in Delta state.
"Our fighters revisited the recently repaired Chevron pipeline… and destroyed it again," the group said.
[..]
In the statement released on [...]

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links for 2009-07-10

Daily News Egypt – Full Article
(tags: egypt politics ndp muslim-brotherhood)

Egypt: See no strikes, hear no strikes, report no strikes | Menassat
(tags: labor egypt activism police censorship government)

Three Reasons We Need an Economic Wake Up Call | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
(tags: economic-crisis economics economy united-states policy)

Michael Jackson's Death Was Tragic, But He Was Little [...]

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links for 2009-07-09

Tesla Motors Moving Quickly to Commercialization of an Electric Car | GreenCar Magazine
(tags: electricity transport auto green sustainable energy)

تي بي يي للترجمات: NDP Age Discrimination??? « THE BOURSA EXCHANGE
(tags: egypt politics ndp)

The “N-Word” at 3arabawy
(tags: egypt capitalism humanrights privatization labor activism protests)

SHE2I2: The Egyptian State's Violations of Trade Union Rights – ITUC Annual Survey
(tags: union [...]

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links for 2009-07-08

More than 20,000 soldiers in Sinai, says former ambassador to Israel – Daily News Egypt – Full Article
(tags: military egypt israel sinai)

BM News: Indonesian students beaten, tortured, in Egypt « Bikya Masr
(tags: egypt torture indonesia police islamism Azhar)

Small Businesses Might Not Be the Key to Economic Recovery | BNET Intercom | BNET
(tags: sme united-states economy [...]

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links for 2009-07-07

Chudadi
chinese gambling card game that mixes poker into 13-card hand
(tags: gaming)

Freemium and Freeconomics
(tags: business free economics internet finance entr entrepreneurship)

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links for 2009-07-06

Stefan Geens, panoramic photographer – 360 Cities
a77a. impressive shit. 360 panoramas mostly from pharaonic tombs, but also includes stuff out and about in egypt.
(tags: graphic map photo egypt history)

Helwan to get zoo, retail center, medical park – Daily News Egypt – Full Article
sounds so impressive.. but this is worrying:
"Degla Safari Park, an 800-feddan development in [...]

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