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Should $50 Billion Fund War or Climate Impacts?
Alexia Parks | Posted 12.11.2009 | Green
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The $50 billion annual investment in Afghanistan ignores a better investment: funding those most affected by the changing climate created by human impacts.
Bangladesh reels from the impact of climate change
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 12.08.2009 | Home
Last year, rising tides destroyed more than 300 schools in Bangladesh leaving children with no place to learn. In response to the worsening floods, so...
"Creating new land for climate refugees in Bangladesh," by William Wheeler and Anna-Katarina Gravgaard, TIME Video
Pulitzer Center. | Pulitzer Center | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home
Muhammed Yusuf tends a muddy, two acre farm in southeast Bangladesh. ...
Today: A tanker hijack and a Swiss vote to ban minarets
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home
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Stories compiled by Gizem Yarbil, Connie Kargbo, Channtal Fleischfresser, Christine Kiernan, Ivette Feliciano, and Mohammad al-Kassim, and edited by ...
Today: Obama in Korea and a World Cup controversy
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home
Stories compiled by Gizem Yarbil, Connie Kargbo, Channtal Fleischfresser, Christine Kiernan, Ivette Feliciano, and Mohammad al-Kassim, and edited by ...
Climate Change Hits Women Harder, So Where Are the Feminist Voices?
Anushay Hossain | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
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It's the world's poor who will feel the impact of this change the hardest. And who exactly are the poor? Women, who make up approximately 65% of the world's poorest populations.
Adidas Scores Social Responsibility Points With 'One Euro Shoes'
Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact
In an effort to boost its social responsibility, Adidas is planning to make "one Euro shoes" for the millions of people around the world who cannot af...
Parliamentarians for Pneumonia
Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
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More importantly than events in Washington and London, for the first time ever, parliaments in developing countries, where the bulk of pneumonia deaths occur, were active locally on World Pneumonia Day.
Deadly Fevers More Terrifying Than Swine Flu
Minyanville | Minyanville | Posted 10.30.2009 | Home
Brewing in the far corners of the globe in hot spots in Southeast Asia and Africa are viruses whose feared impacts are large enough to place them in ...
The Great Convergence of Crises: Can We Handle the 21st Century?
Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
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The symptoms of catastrophe are unmistakable, and the diagnosis is clear: we are in a race against time with the forces of the natural world.
Ecopreneur: Never Let Them See You Sweat
Kristin Boekhoff | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
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There comes a point in every entrepreneur's life when they think to themselves, "What the #$%@ am I doing?!" and August 14th was definitely one of those days for me.
Climate Change in Bangladesh: Rising sea levels threaten low-lying lands
Pulitzer Center. | Pulitzer Center | Posted 10.07.2009 | Home
A key feature of the Pulitzer Center's upcoming web portal on climate change is Daniel Grossman's reporting from Bangladesh on how rising sea ...
Bangladesh's king rat-catcher kills 83,000
The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home
A Bangladeshi farmer who killed more than 83,000 rats and launched a nationwide campaign to kill millions more has been awarded a prize by the governm...
Mokhairul Islam Killed 83,000 Rats, Rewarded With Prize In Bangladesh
AP | JULHAS ALAM | Posted 11.30.2009 | World
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh on Wednesday awarded a farmer who killed more than 83,000 rats and launched a monthlong campaign nationwide to kill millions more, to protect crops and reduce the need for food imports. Mokhairul Islam, 40, won a first prize of a color television for killing some 83,450 rats in the past nine months in Gazipur district near the South Asian country's capital, Dhaka. He collected their tails for proof.
"I am so happy to get this honor," Islam told The Associated Press after receiving a 14-inch television and a certificate amid cheers at an official ceremony packed with 500 farmers and officials. "I had no idea that the government gives prizes for this."
"This is an exciting moment. I will continue to kill them," he vowed.
Officials say the impoverished nation imports some 3 million tons of food annually, while the Ministry of Agriculture estimates that rodents annually destroy 1.5 million to 2 million tons of food.
"We can cut the import of food by at least half if we can succeed in this year's campaign," said Wais Kabir, executive chairman of the Bangladesh Agriculture Research Council.
Ecopreneur: An Innovative Way to Attract Investors in a Recession
Kristin Boekhoff | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
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I don't have to convince the Bangladeshis of the potential of their country. They are keen to change the world's negative perception of Bangladesh; a high-profile, luxury eco resort could do just that.
Pro Mujer: Journey Towards Women's Empowerment In Latin America
Jim Luce | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
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Lynne Patterson,
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Pro Mujer is helping some of the poorest women in Latin America to increase their income, develop their full potential, and claim their basic human rights, enabling them to become agents of change.
WATCH: Classrooms In 7 Countries Struggle To Provide Kids With A Basic Education
Wide Angle | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
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WIDE ANGLE's unprecedented, award-winning 12-year documentary project, Time for School, returns in 2009 with visits to seven classrooms in seven cou...
Ecopreneur: From the Boardroom to Bangladesh
Kristin Boekhoff | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
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What made me give up a six figure job at the top of the corporate ladder, donate everything I owned to charity, and move to a developing country that few people can locate on a map?
The Scandal of International Religious Persecution
Doug Bandow | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
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There is a good argument for treating religious liberty as the first freedom. If a government is unwilling to protect basic freedom when it comes to religious faith, then it is unlikely to tolerate political free-thinking either.
Bangladesh: Climate Change is a Hot Story Here
Pulitzer Center. | Pulitzer Center | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home
Glenn Baker, for the Pulitzer CenterClimate change is front page news in Bangladesh on a near-daily basis, and the English-language newspaper The Dail...
Bangladesh Bans Suits To Save Power
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
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The prime minister of Bangladesh has ordered male government employees to stop wearing suits, jackets and ties to save electricity. Sheikh Hasina tol...
Ted Kennedy's Foreign Policy Idealism
Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
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Domestic issues pervaded Teddy's mission, but also his image at home. However, he was intensely interested and engaged in world matters.
Playing Shortstop for the Boston "Ted" Sox
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
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Tonight Kennedy will be quietly remembered and honored in thousands of tents, huts and homes of refugees around the world who owe their lives and the lives of their children to his generous devotion to their safety and security.
Sri Lankan Army To Train Pakistan Military
GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 09.23.2009 | Home
Sri Lankan Army officially agreed to Train Pakistan Military on tackling Insurgency Operations Newly Appointed Sri Lankan Army Commander Lt.General Ja...
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WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 12.18.2009 | Home