links for 2009-08-17

Making Money from Blogs In The First 6 Months — Just Make Money Online (tags: howto business blog blogs marketing entrepreneurship freelance) College students are flocking to sustainability degrees, careers – USATODAY.com (tags: university SchoolSearch environment green sustainability) New HIV Strain Discovered In Woman From Cameroon (tags: health africa HIV/AIDS) Can volunteers shut down Chile's [...]

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links for 2009-08-16

Asian Development Bank backs up renewable energy in the Pacific (tags: energy alternative sustainable renewable development asia) SEE – Edmonton News & Views – News & Views – Organizing Working Women (tags: sex canada union) BBC NEWS | Health | Moderate drinking 'boosts bones' (tags: beer health women) Drug-resilient swine flu strain documented in U.S. [...]

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links for 2009-08-13

مجتمعنا really brief press item on NGO seeking to look into setting up a plan for climate change in egypt.. should look into this initiative further. (tags: egypt climate-change ngo) Whither Fateh? | Palestine (tags: fatah politics palestine) Gonzo Gastronomy: How the Food Industry Has Made Bacon a Weapon of Mass Destruction | | AlterNet [...]

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links for 2009-08-12

Egypt and global Islam: The battle for a religion's heart | The Economist meh.. shoddy journalism, unbacked claims. But it's what so many people, both in the Islamic world and beyond, would love to believe. (tags: islam islamism religion society Qaradawi islamophobia) BBC NEWS | Middle East | Frustrated dreams of young Egyptians more on [...]

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links for 2009-08-10

fatpita.net :: funny random pictures (tags: humor politics society media Orwell Huxley books)

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links for 2009-08-09

Business & Human Rights : Home (tags: business humanrights UN CSR) Leading by Example: Hawaii's Clean Energy Initiative – Renewable Energy World Much of Hawaii’s oil comes from Indonesia, and there is no easy way to supply the islands should geo-political events interrupt tanker shipments — via pipeline, rail or truck, as would be possible [...]

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links for 2009-08-07

CSR still has a lot to prove – Results of my recent online poll | FabianPattberg.com (tags: CSR) BrightView Systems and EPFL announce thin-film solar collaboration | CleanTechies Blog – CleanTechies.com (tags: solar energy technology israel) BM News: Drinking water in Asyut unfit for human consumption « Bikya Masr (tags: egypt water health waste-management) The [...]

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links for 2009-08-06

Master's Programs – The Earth Institute at Columbia University (tags: university SchoolSearch development environment) Jeffrey Sachs: Aid Ironies (tags: aid development africa economics corruption international JSachs) The Traveller Within: Dead Aid: Deadly Arguments (updated: link at the bottom) (tags: africa aid book review development trade poverty humanitarian) Careful with Those Shortened Links (tags: internet web2.0 [...]

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links for 2009-08-05

BM Opinion: Stop, look, what’s that sound … the death of Egyptian activism « Bikya Masr (tags: egypt activism blogs palestine protests) 2010 Nissan Leaf electric car: In person, in depth – and U.S. bound [*UPDATED w/vids & live photos] — Autoblog Nissan says the Leaf is not just for use as a specialty urban [...]

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links for 2009-08-04

A Green University | Newsweek Education | Newsweek.com (tags: energy sustainable sustainability abudhabi Masdar education university environment) مصر الأخرى .. أرقام وتقارير مخيفة a compilation of whole bunch of negative stats (tags: egypt statistics poverty corruption development) !!!انقلابورصة « THE BOURSA EXCHANGE (tags: cairo egypt downtown finance)

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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 [...]

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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) [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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