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  • The Ultimate Green Building Material: Dirt?


    Triple Pundit — Authority Authority: 611
    Dwell Earth has high aspirations for a humble building material: Dirt.
    3 days ago

  • Shipping Container School Built In Four Weeks After Earthquake In Chile


    Container Living. Net — Authority Authority: 108
    Photos: VientoFuerte.cl. When a tsunami hit Chile a devastated town left in its wake lost its school, local university students were able to rebuild the school within four weeks. Tabul is around 500km south west of Santiago and one of the worst areas hit by the tsunami. Finis Terrae University architecture department ...
    1 week ago

  • Companies’ Growing Role In Natural Disaster Relief


    China Bystander — Authority Authority: 412
    Multinationals are taking an increasingly prominent relief role in humanitarian disasters, including those in China. The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, has put the subject under its microscope, finding that corporations have become a central … Continue reading →
    1 week ago

  • Sean Penn’s Haiti Organization Raises $5 Million


    Haute Living Magazine — Authority Authority: 599
    Image: Popeater On Sunday, a publicist announced that $5 million has been raised for actor Sean Penn’s J/P Haitian Relief Organization. The money was reportedly raised in Los Angeles and will go toward the actor’s humanitarian group, which is based in Haiti. Penn set up the organization just months after a ...
    1 week ago

  • Disaster Risk Reduction – Key Investments for the Future


    USAID Impact: The Official Blog of the U.S. Agency for International Development — Authority Authority: 409
    Kasey Channell is Acting Director of the Disaster Response and Mitigation Division of USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Benjamin Franklin is famous for the adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Today, we are faced with great challenges brought about by increasing ...
    1 week ago

  • NASCARs Jeff Gordon Visits Rwanda


    Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority Authority: 473
    NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon has blogged about his incredible trip to Rwanda with the Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation in December. Photo via Jeff Gordon Children’s Foundation “Our journey began from the United States in New York on Tuesday, December 6,” he writes. "After a few hours of sleep and ...
    1 week ago

  • Meet Golden Globe Winner Morgan Freeman For Charity


    Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority Authority: 473
    On the heels of being honored at this year’s Golden Globes, Morgan Freeman hits the auction block to raise money for Plan!t Now ! This is your chance to meet the man himself, and help a great cause at the same time. Morgan Freeman is one of the most recognizable figures in American cinema. We were reminded of ...
    1 week ago

  • Hayworth Announces Grant Funding for Disaster-related Infrastructure Programs


    Hudson Valley Insider — Authority Authority: 128
    Co-signed bipartisan letter in support of funding for FHWA Emergency Relief On January 12, 2012, U.S. Congresswoman Nan Hayworth , M.D. (NY-19) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation is releasing $89,751,296 in congressionally-approved emergency relief money to New York state through the Federal ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Stars Help Honor Sean Penns Work In Haiti


    Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority Authority: 473
    A host of stars were out in Beverly Hills in the weekend to celebrate Sean Penn and his work with the J/P Haitian Relief Organization . A swag of celebrities – including Leonardo DiCaprio , Julia Roberts , Kim Kardashian , Mel Gibson , Orlando Bloom , George Clooney , Demi Moore , Diane Lane , Josh ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Flat Pack Container Home


    Container Living. Net — Authority Authority: 108
    I Came across this video tonight for disaster relief in Haiti. The concept is very simple as well as the fact they are using very basic materials that also make it light to construct and if more budget the interior could be lined. In the West something like this may appear as sub standard but [...]
    2 weeks ago

  • Help CDO


    Tropicalpenpals.com — Authority Authority: 123
    I tried to skim over the subject of natural disasters this year as it always falls back to one thing, most can be prevented! But not saying I have the solutions as even small projects here everyone... Tropicalpenpals a blog for the Philippines
    2 weeks ago

  • The Haitian Migration


    The Latest from the New America Foundation — Authority Authority: 529
    January 9, 2012 Want to help the hundreds of thousands of Haitians still suffering from the 2010 earthquake? Let some of them into the United States. Charles Kenny ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Meet Madonna And Help Sean Penns Charity In Haiti


    Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority Authority: 473
    Since her rise to super celebrity status, Madonna has auctioned everything from her gold-embellished tassled bustier to autographed Chanel boots to penned love letters. Now, the pop queen and living legend is putting herself on the online auction block for the first time ever to raise funds for a cause close to her ...
    2 weeks ago

  • The Season of Giving


    Charities Blog — Authority Authority: 79
    Christmas is often associated with sharing. It is a time to give back and share the blessings that you have received. But who says that you cannot share all-year round? It’s been almost a month since the holidays, but you can still help many people who are less fortunate. Here are some charities or causes that would ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Remembering Haiti


    Repair the World — Authority Authority: 106
    Two years ago on this day, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake took the lives of over 300,000 Haitians. Today, one and a half million people are still displaced, 550,000 people continue to live in camps, and the number of orphans nearly doubled. Thanks to the support of volunteers, NGOs, service-workers who rushed down, some ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Stars Mark Second Anniversary Of Earthquake In Haiti


    Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority Authority: 473
    Today, on the second anniversary of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Paurt-Au-Prince, killing 230,000 and injuring millions more, over 40 high profile personalities are using their Twitter and Facebook accounts to rekindle the world’s interest in helping Haiti. Celebrities leveraging their ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Architecture for Humanity Reports They’ve Helped Tens of Thousands in the Wake of the Haiti Earthquake


    INHABITAT — Authority Authority: 693
    When a massive earthquake struck Haiti two years ago today, the damage was staggering. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and entire towns were reduced to rubble. In the wake of the destruction Architecture for Humanity stepped in to try and lend a hand in rebuilding the country in a safe and ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Two Years After Quake, Haitians Have Few Jobs or a Living Wage


    AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority Authority: 600
    Elizabeth Boomer of the AFL-CIO International Affairs Department sends us this report in conjunction with the Solidarity Center . Two years after a massive earthquake destroyed much of Haiti’s capital and surrounding towns, the Haitian people are still struggling to recover from the disaster and the entrenched ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Haiti “A Country Undeniably on the Move”


    USAID Impact: The Official Blog of the U.S. Agency for International Development — Authority Authority: 409
    Originally posted in The Miami Herald It’s been two years since one of the most deadly natural disasters of the modern era devastated one of the poorest countries in the world. Even with an unprecedented international response in partnership with the Haitian government, the sheer scale of the 7.0 ...
    2 weeks ago

  • HOK & the USGBC’s New Sustainable Orphanage and Children’s Center In Haiti Uses Biomimicry


    INHABITAT — Authority Authority: 693
    HOK has been announced as the U.S. Green Building Council ’s official design partner for Project Haiti, a building designed to LEED Platinum principles that will replace a Port-au-Prince orphanage and children’s center devastated by the 2010 earthquake. The new structure will provide a safe, healthy home for the ...
    2 weeks ago

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