Hillary Clinton Loves Her Some Coal via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Podcasts: Education in Emergencies, Humanitarian Work, Vulnerable Women via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
I noted earlier that Forced Migration Online (FMO) has started posting podcast interviews with forced migration experts. Examples of podcasts available from other humanitarian organizations include the following:
UNICEF has launched a new podcast series - "Beyond School Books" - that focuses on education in emergencies. The first in the series is "When Crises Strike Children: Education as a...
BaliBuzz: “We’re a little concerned that our future is being ignored” via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Majora Carter Says Showing Up For Climate Solutions is MORE Than Half the Battle via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Michael Shellenberger Says It’s Time for a Breakthrough on Climate Change (Part 2) via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Michael Shellenberger Says It’s Time For A Breakthrough via It's Getting Hot In Here
Youth climate activists must shift their focus from simply avoiding the impending global warming apocalypse to articulating a vision of a new prosperous and sustainable clean energy economy, says Michael Shellenberger, Power Shift 2007 speaker and coauthor of the new book, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility.
Shellenberger - well-known for kicking up a stir with the controversial essay, “The Death of Environmentalism,” co-authored with his “partner-in-crime” Ted Nordhaus in 2004 - is now the President of the Breakthrough Institute, a small think tank which focuses on a new kind of progressive politics.
This weekend, Shellenberger will share his vision of a new, “post-environmentalist,” progressive climate...
Bill McKibben Says It’s Time to “Organize, Organize, Organize” for a Cleaner Future via It's Getting Hot In Here
Bill McKibben has three pieces of advice for people who want to make a difference in the fight against global warming:
“1: Organize. 2. Organize. 3. Organize,” says the well-beloved author, educator, climate activist and co-founder of Step It Up.
Only then does he add his fourth piece of advice: “After that, if they have some energy left, by all means change the light-bulbs.”
And to the young climate activists who are putting together a growing and increasingly sophisticated youth climate movement, McKibben says, “Keep it up!” This weekend, over 5,000 young leaders will converge in Washington D.C. for Power Shift 2007, the first-ever national youth climate summit, organized by the Energy Action Coalition. Back at home, tens of thousands more youth... Interview Sources via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
Forced Migration Online (FMO) has launched a new podcast series. Initially, it will consist of "discussions between experts on forced migration issues from academia, practitioner organizations and international agencies. In the near future, the team plan to add interviews and life histories of refugees and other displaced people." (Similar to the forced migrant stories reported on earlier.)
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New Congo guide book (interview) via Extra Extra
Stanley’s expedition shoots the rapids
130 years have passed since hot-tempered Welsh-American Henry Moreton Stanley navigated the Congo River, his newspaper reports piquing the interest of King Leopold II.
Visiting in the 1920’s, Grace Flandrau may have been unimpressed by the cuisine, but she had fewer difficulties getting around Ituri than she would if she could return today. The likes of Joseph Conrad, Mobotu, Mohammad Ali and Franco may have helped keep the Congo/Zaire on the map internationally, but it has never been much of a tourist destination.
However, things appear to be improving in the wake of last year’s elections, even in Ituri. Much depends on the behaviour of the new government, but improved security may attract some adventurous travellers as well as... Melinda Moree: vaccines, surfboards and teleporters via Vaccines for Development
The Lancet has published an interview with Melinda Moree(subscription req.), Director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative.
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