Kenyan wetlands to be biofuels farm
Please click the title link to hear the whole story… ELMO
Annan Discusses Food Aid and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa | June 11, 2008 | PBS
“Annan: World Must Help African Nations Tackle Food Crisis “Fuel costs and supply shortages have caused a spike in food prices across Africa — prompting calls for an agricultural revolution on the continent. Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan discusses efforts to address the crisis.” Please watch the video here.
Web Tools Help to Reshape ’08 Campaign Trail
This NewsHour segment is a great review of the impact of the Information Age on current affairs. While it specifically refers to the impact on the US presidential election, the implications are broad and apply to the building of our own Chemists Without Borders community. Please check this out. You can watch the video, listen …
The Online NewsHour: AIDS in Africa: Focus on Rwanda and Tanzania | PBS
The Online NewsHour: AIDS in Africa: Focus on Rwanda and Tanzania | PBS Here are some excellent reports on progress being made in Africa resulting from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.
First week June conference call
Regular 1st week meeting June 5, 2008 @ 1700 GMTDoug Molitor, Steve Chambreau, Bego Gerber, Lois Ongley Our first meeting will be in Campbell, CA June 15, 2008 from noon on.We will discuss our mission and vision; introduce everyone; review our on-going projects and do a project management training. In articular we will discuss efforts …
Green auto advertising in Britain
Choice quote: “But the ad agencies argue their work has a minimal role in persuading people to buy a new car, raising the question of why car companies take up so much space in magazines.” Either the advertisers are really bad at their jobs, or they haven’t watched the Superbowl… ELMO
U.S. National Institutes of Health Policy: please express support!
Chemists without Borders – and especially our colleagues in the U.S. – please consider writing a comment in support of the U.S. National Institutes of Health’ Public Access Policy! Comments are due tomorrow, Saturday, May 31, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The U.S. NIH Public Access policy requires that publicly-funded medical research in the U.S. …
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Technology Review: $100 Laptop Gets Redesigned
Technology Review: $100 Laptop Gets Redesigned One Laptop per Child (OLPC) version 2.0, smaller, cheaper. Imagine what we can do when everyone is connected. This is just the beginning of the Information Age. Consider this: the types of jobs that many of today’s elementary school children will end up seeking do not even exist yet.
Health Commons video
Science Commons’ John Wilbanks has produced a 6-minute video on the Health Commons which explains succinctly what is broken about the current approach to health discovery, and how a health commons could make a difference. The current approach emphasizes profit; this makes the weight problems of the wealthy a higher priority than river blindness, a …
Repositories without frontiers
Repositories without frontiers (news release from BioMedCentral) * Médecins Sans Frontières implements Open Repository service * Growing momentum of the open access movement highlights the benefits of BioMed Central’s platform Today, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) adopts ‘Open Repository’ – the service from BioMed Central, which allows institutes to build, launch, host, and maintain their own …