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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 23 2007

USA

Congressional Food Stamp Challenge

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Between May 15 and May 21 members of the USA congress were challenged to eat only what they could afford on about $3 a day which is the average food...

May 22 2007

Databases, Digital, Law, Libraries, World

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

Europe, Technology, World

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

Libraries, Technology, USA, World

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

World

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

USA, Women, World

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...

May 11 2007

Databases, Digital, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

Encyclopedia of Life

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Later this year the project to create an Encyclopedia of Life will pick up speed for this ambitious project. The encyclopedia was first proposed by scientist E.O. Wilson who wished...

May 09 2007

Europe, Libraries, USA, World

Creative Fundraising for the Library

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Usually library fundraisers might involved a party, reading event or book sale, but a few libraries have come up with creative alternatives all their own. The National Library of Peru...

May 08 2007

Europe, World

Fuel for thought

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Now when pollution and global warming seem to be an accepted concern, people around the world are trying to come up with new option for running their cars (instead of...