links for 2010-03-31

YouTube – Hitler's angry reaction to the iPad hitler's reaction to ipad (subtitled 'Downfall' clip) (tags: hitler humor technology apple) اليوم السابع | مؤتمر ترويج مشروع الرمال السوداء نهاية أبريل (tags: egypt economy neoliberal environment) Egypt's Hero? | Foreign Affairs (tags: ElBaradie egypt politics elections united-states policy) Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation: Honor the Victims [...]

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links for 2010-03-30

Urban Environment – Sustainability Comes of Age – NYTimes.com universities offering doctoral or master’s degrees in urban sustainability studies, and many more programs include the urban environment as a central part of their studies. In some ways, the shift reflects a coming-of-age of sustainability as a field, away from the back-to-nature ethos of earlier efforts [...]

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links for 2010-03-29

Desert Development Center Desert Development Center Spring 2010 Seminar Series The DDC is pleased to invite you to this semester's seminar series organized by our center. All seminars are held on AUC's New Campus, Administration Building, Room G012. All are welcome and please feel free to bring your lunch! (tags: AUC development environment carbon sustainability [...]

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links for 2010-03-27

IMF Staff Outlines ‘Green Fund’ to Help Address Climate Change – BusinessWeek Of course, undermine the unfccc process.. "An International Monetary Fund staff report proposed the creation of a “Green Fund” that would sell bonds in global markets and use the proceeds to help poor countries deal with climate change. [..] "Governments could inject reserve [...]

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links for 2010-03-26

Bottled Water Industry Combats Anti-Green Perceptions With Pretend Journalism (VIDEO) (tags: water propaganda environment waste)

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links for 2010-03-25

Environment Outlook for the Arab Region (EOAR) The Environment Outlook for the Arab Region: Environment for Development and Human Well-being is the first official, comprehensive, and integrated assessment of the state of environment in the Arab region. It is a credible, scientific assessment that provides a base for policy formulation in the region. The report [...]

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links for 2010-03-24

News from The Associated Press (tags: google censorship humanrights internet china) YouTube – Love Marriage: Wilbur Sargunaraj- Official Music Video (tags: video marriage youtube humor india music) COHRE – Centre On Housing Rights and Evictions In the next 50 years, it is projected that two-thirds of us will be living in towns and cities – [...]

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links for 2010-03-21

The Wrong Kind of Green Yet the "conservation" groups in particular believe they are being hardheaded in adhering to the "political reality" that says only cuts far short of the climate science are possible. They don't seem to realize that in a conflict between political reality and physical reality, physical reality will prevail. The laws [...]

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links for 2010-03-19

مصر: أول دعوي وسب وقذف بسبب مقال علي الفيسبوك نقيب المهن التمثيلية يقاضي احد أعضاء نقابته بسبب مقالة رأي | الشبكة العربية لمعلومات حقوق الإنسان (tags: egypt humanrights union law) Cancun Climate Talks Get Dim Prognosis Nine Months Before Start – Bloomberg.com (tags: climatechange politics japan EU united-states international environment) Egypt – Country data – Women, Business and [...]

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links for 2010-03-18

How to Write about the Middle East « err…whaterverz In your text, treat the Middle East as if it were one country, and constantly refer to it as ‘Arabia’ or ‘The Muslim World’. It is hot and dusty with rolling sand dunes and huge herds of camels, because they are the only animals that are [...]

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links for 2010-03-17

After gold cars, a Green Sheikh who cares about the planet | Bikya Masr Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al-Nuaimi, a member of the ruling Ajman Royal Family is now being known not just for his wealth. Locals are calling him the “Green Sheikh” and “Down to Earth Sheikh” as a result of his concern [...]

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links for 2010-03-16

معانى أسماء شوارع القاهرة 2008-06-26 21:42:27 : قلم لذيذ meaning of street names in Cairo (tags: cairo history urban) worlds-billionaires-2010: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance Gates and Buffet bumped to 2nd and 3rd (tags: finance business international) ElBaradei reveals he is a trained Jedi Master | El Koshary Today News that Mohamed ElBaradei can [...]

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links for 2010-03-11

الرئيس عبد الناصر و تخاريف البرادعى : عمرو صابح – منتديات الفكر القومي العربي really inept attack of El Baradie that relies, as usual in our stunted intellectualism, on flowery, impassioned prose rather than any sort of cohesion or logic. (tags: ElBaradie egypt politics Nasserism) Abdel Nasser, Elbaradei and an idiot | Faisal's Tobril Faisal [...]

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links for 2010-03-10

China and India to Join Copenhagen Climate Change Accord – NYTimes.com (tags: climatechange UNFCCC china india environment carbon politics) Egyptian female bodyguards mix hijabs with aikido / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com (tags: egypt security society religion women) And I Am Not Lying » Blog Archive » Types of Bitches This list is fairly [...]

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links for 2010-03-09

Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Governance Challenge The striking correlation between a country’s democracy standards and the transparency, good governance, and accountability standards of its SWFs suggests that any meaningful progress on compliance in emerging economies, particularly in the Arab world, is likely to be closely associated with broader democratic reforms. [..] Absent a genuine strategic [...]

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