Seed Bank Projects
In an effort to classify, and preserve the world’s wild plant diversity, the Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP), based in Britain, is serving as the globe’s depository. Motivated by global...
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USA- Canadian Border Library
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Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the USA – Canadian border between Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont. This library was built in 1904 by the American Carlos Haskell...
Jun
06
2007
World Environment Day 2007
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Yesterday was World Environment Day, and one more day to try to get our attention around the collective damage we are doing to the planet. World Environment Day was created...
Tutankhamen Exhibit
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This weekend I was in Philly to see the Tutankhamen exhibit at the Franklin Institute Science Museum. My mom saw this exhibit when it toured the USA back in the...
May
29
2007
Clever Designs
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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in NYC is currently housing the Design for the other 90% exhibit which displays clever designs that solve basic needs for the world’s poor. Today, entrepreneurs...
May
22
2007
Copyrighting Traditional Knowledge
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A recent file for copyright of Birkam yoga has attracted new attention to the Indian government’s efforts to safeguard their traditional knowledge. The Indian government has put a group together...
May
21
2007
Replacing cash with cell phones
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A new technology is emerging in Zimbabwe, one that uses cell phone messages to exchange currency for goods. Mukuru.com is a company that has set up a system by which...
May
17
2007
Room to Read
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Room to Read is an amazing nonprofit organization founded by John Wood, a former executive at Microsoft who had his life flipped upside down after traveling to Nepal. On this...
May
15
2007
30 Days of Sustainability
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30 Days of Sustainability is a project around Vancouver, Canada where citizens, corporations, government and the society at large are engaging in activities that affirm an environmentally sustainable lifestyle. They...
May
13
2007
Mother’s Day Proclamation
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In 1870 Julia Ward Howe wrote the “Mother’s Day Proclamation” as a call to our senses of the absurdity of war. At the time she was reflecting on the brutality...