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Tag was last used: May 25, 2009
 
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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 24, 2009

  The illicit drug trade

...with Nazma Muller Daurius Figueira is a social researcher who has spent the last 20 years investigating the illicit drug trade. His areas of interest are broad yet interlocking; politics, government, the illicit drug trade, the illicit gun trade, human trafficking in the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 23, 2009

  The Summit and the lie

Reflections of Fidel SOME of the things that Daniel told me would be hard to believe if it was not him who told me them and it was not at a Summit of the Americas where they occurred. The unusual thing is that there was no such consensus on the final document. The ALBA group did not...... [view]

Posted By:  akindeleoyeyemi
Posted On:  Apr 16, 2009

  Food and Energy Crisis

Summary: The world is in peril. The livelihood of the masses is threatened with lack of basic needs for their daily existence from energy to climate, food & financial meltdown- a downturn that is more fatal than the depression in 1930 and 1989. The scheme to find an alternative, a substitute...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 8, 2009

  Meeting with Barbara Lee and other members of the Black Caucus

Reflections of Fidel THE morning was stormy, humid, cold. A strong wind was blowing and the sky was clouded. It was not a spring day, or warm. Barbara wanted to visit the ELAM [Latin American School of Medicine], where 114 young people from the United States are studying...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 1, 2009

  The G20 Summit - or the T20?

By Kamalesh Sharma: Commonwealth Secretary-General - Ninety percent of global GDP will be represented at the G20 table in London on 2nd April. All that will be missing is 90% of the world’s countries. The simple fact of globalisation dictates that all countries, the world over, have...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 28, 2009

  Link between global dimming and warming baffles scientists

MOSCOW. (Andrei Kislyakov, for RIA Novosti) - The latest research by European scientists, climatologists and astronomers suggests that the so-called global dimming, or the gradual reduction in the amount of global direct irradiance at the Earth's surface, observed for several decades after the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 25, 2009

  CLICO chief tried to raise funds by fire sale of assets

By Oscar Ramjeet: Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent - Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com: PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Three days after publicly signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at saving CLICO’s depositors and policyholders, Chief Executive Lawrence Duprey was...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 11, 2009

  Syrian nuclear mystery remains unsolved

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Murtazin) - Last week, the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Vienna to discuss the Iranian nuclear file and the Syrian nuclear mystery. The IAEA has some misgivings about Syria's al-Kibar nuclear...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 9, 2009

  CLICO fears shared by entire Caribbean

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): On March 5, the shares of the great Citigroup, once one of the largest banks and companies in world, traded for only 97 US cents on the New York Stock Exchange. Unfortunately, this is not a unique situation. It has been repeated with many other financial institutions...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 24, 2009

  Obama administration urged to 'listen to Lugar'

WASHINGTON, USA: Calling Senator Lugar's report “a clear and convincing case against current US policy,” Sarah Stephens of the Center for Democracy in the Americas released the following statement on the report issued by the Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 6, 2009

  Contradictions between the politics of Obama and ethics

Reflections of Fidel: THE other day I noted some of Obama’s ideas that point to his role within a system that is the negation of every just principle. There are people who throw up their hands in horror at the expression of any critical opinion of this important figure, even when it is...... [view]

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Organizations // Events // Toolkits & Publications

  GreenLearning

Submitted By:   GreenLearning
Website:  http://www.greenlearning.ca
Phone:  613-256-1487
E-mail:  gordonh@greenlearning.ca
  Vision:   GreenLearning Canada envisions a generation of young Canadians who are enabled and inspired to actively create a sustainable and just world. GreenLearning was developed as the flagship energy education program of the......
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  STRIVE

Submitted By:   Mastisa
Phone:  646-942-3160
E-mail:  Arilaen@gmail.com
  Vision:   STRIVE (Students Take Resolute Initiative to Vindicate the Environment) is an environmental organization begun by Stuyvesant students. We hope to foster a "green" atmosphere and help aspiring environmentalists grow through......
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Commitments // Projects

  I Will Use My Legs

Submitted By:   Scarletta
Committers:  5
Date Created:  2008-06-25
Description:   Rain, snow, 115 degree weather...if its within walking distance (say, 3 miles or less), I will walk there. It's better for my health, and its better for the environment.
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  Replace the Bulb, Save the Planet

Submitted By:   bhuwan007
Committers:  13
Date Created:  2008-02-15
Description:   Survey conducted by International Energy Agency (IEA) found that a global switch to efficient lighting systems would trim the world's electricity bill by nearly one-tenth. The carbon dioxide emissions saved by such a switch would cut so far achieved by adopting wind and solar power. The International Energy Agency has calculated that lighting uses 19 percent of global electricity produced. This electricity used for lighting is a major source of CO2 emissions - equivalent to 70 percent of that from the world’s cars and is three times more than emissions from aviation. (World Energy Outlook, 2006).
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  Turning my computer/monitor off when I'm not using them

Submitted By:   laurakenyon
Committers:  238
Date Created:  2007-11-01
Description:   When you aren’t actively using your computer it is still draining power, and even during ‘sleep’ mode a computer still uses energy. Whenever possible take a second to turn off your computer and monitor, it is a small way to save on energy and consequently reduce the pollution that is inevitably produced during various methods of energy production.
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