In 2009, my wife and I made our decision to donate our income to the cause of fighting extreme global poverty. We'd like to invite you to do some of the same.
AP | MICHAEL BARAJAS | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Amnesty International is accusing Israel of pumping disproportionate amounts of drinking water from an aquifer it controls in the We...
Michael Deane | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Experts throughout the United States agree that our nation's drinking water and wastewater systems face increasing infrastructure replacement challenges over the next several decades.
Susan J. Marks | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
Water is the new oil, except there is no alternative. We can't live without it. The water crisis is here and now in our backyards, and in our homes.
Andres Restrepo | Posted 10.09.2009 | Impact
Last week, Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte became Canada's first private explorer in space. His mission? To raise humanity's awareness of water-related issues.
Lori Pottinger | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green
Poorer nations looking to California for ideas in dealing with vexing water problems should leapfrog over our tarnished model of destroyed rivers, crumbling infrastructure, and contentious solutions to the mess.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
Throughout the Middle East, water is running out. Israel and Jordan have moved jointly to address this problem.
Scott Harrison | Posted 11.14.2009 | Impact
In the spirit of solving enormous problems, charity: water wants to step it up this September and provide our first million people with clean and safe drinking water.
Dean Florez | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
This summer, I find myself wondering what my grandmother would make of this new California: 38 million residents strong; $26 billion dollars in the hole; deep cuts to education and social service programs.
Ir Amim | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
One afternoon in early June, I sat down with Khader Dibs, a public figure in Shuafat RC. Dibs is a middle-aged father who heads the camp's UNWRA-run sanitation services.
J. Carl Ganter | Posted 08.25.2009 | Green
According to our new Circle of Blue GlobeScan public opinion survey, WaterViews, we now know that people globally care most about water.
J. Carl Ganter | Posted 06.17.2009 | Media
Fusion Tables is a powerful research and story-telling tool -- equally accessible to journalists, scientists, students and the public.
Juliette Powell | Posted 07.05.2009 | Entertainment
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte announced this morning that come September 30th, he will embark on a space mission!
John Sauer | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
Even those of us in the international development field have pretty much neglected the fact that diarrhea is still fatal in many parts of the world. It kills 1.6 million children each year.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
Inside the occupied West Bank, permaculture is not just a decision of conscience but a necessary means of empowerment within an ever-changing, uncertain landscape.
greenUPGRADER | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green
In the developing world clean water and sanitation are very scarce. This is due to over population and lack of infrastructure and poses a serious hea...
John Sauer | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
If people joined together to support water and sanitation projects they could immediately help woman shatter the most basic of glass ceilings -- access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green
Part of going off-grid that's so attractive is the idea of using what the earth provides, rather than what we have to pay for. Once solar panels are i...
Randall Amster | Posted 04.05.2009 | Green
It's one thing when the desert is bereft of water, but the marshlands? The nation's agricultural leader? Major cities? Whole continents? And this is only the beginning.
Robert Stavins | Posted 04.03.2009 | Green
Throughout the United States, water is under-priced. Efficient use of water will take place only when the price reflects the actual additional cost of making that water available.
AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green
BANGKOK — The collapse of Cambodia's great ancient city of Angkor may have been due to a massive drought nearly 600 years ago _ not just rival S...
AP | ANDREW WHALEN | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green
LIMA, Peru — Global climate change threatens the complete disappearance of the Andes' tropical glaciers within the next 20 years, putting precio...
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 03.20.2009 | World
What if our lost decade lasts long enough to meet an environmental crisis involving extreme weather?
AFP | 16 Hours Ago | Posted 03.20.2009 | Green
The United Nations called Monday on rich nations to forge a "Global Green New Deal" that puts the environment, climate change and poverty reduction at...
Inter Press Service | Posted 04.14.2009 | Green
BAGHDAD, Feb 12 (IPS) - There is less water now in the Tigris, and it is less clean. The river has fewer fish, and rising fuel and other costs mean ...
Eugene Cho | Posted 10.30.2009 | Impact