A Good Worldwide Arsenic Review
Arsenic: In Search of an Antidote to a Global Poison
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Water: International and Regional Issues: United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Australia, Africa and the Developing World
Kiva Microfunds’ Success Has Roots in Silicon Valley
March 25, 2007 The following article has been posted to Philanthropy News Digest: Kiva Microfunds’ Success Has Roots in Silicon ValleyA large part of the online microlender’s success is attributable to its ability to harness the collective power of the Silicon Valley tech community…. More»
Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the United States
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access has launched a Petition for Publicly Funded Research in the United States. Please sign! For more information, please join us for a special teleconference meeting on Thursday, April 5, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time / noon Eastern Time, when Heather Joseph, Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing Academic Resources Coalition, will …
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UK to set legally binding carbon emissions cuts
See the article here. ELMO
Open Access, Open Source Speaker Series: Heather Joseph, Peter Suber, Jean-Claude Bradley
Please join Chemists Without Borders for a special series of teleconference meetings on Open Access and Open Source. For more background, please see the link from the Chemists Without Borders website to our Open Chemistry Position Statement. Thursday, April 5 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time / Noon Eastern TimeHeather Joseph: Federal Research Public Access Act Heather …
Coal Power Plants
From an MSNBC article on coal fired power plants: Companies say the new coal plants are better than old ones, though both use the same approach: pulverizing coal, then burning it in huge boilers to power giant turbines. The new $1.1 billion MidAmerican facility will be one of the nation’s biggest, with 790 megawatts of …
Non-Profit Pharmaceutical companies?
See the inspiring article about Dr. Victoria Hale. ELMO
Biology Goes Open Source
Biology Goes Open SourceMatthew Herper and Robert LangrethForbes February 12, 2007 Excerpt:Some of the world’s biggest drug companies are finding that their genetic research is worth more to them if they give it away. Novartis (nyse: NVS – news – people ), the Basel, Switzerland, drug giant, has helped uncover which of the 20,000 genes …