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• The Role of Technologists in Addressing Poverty and Other Issues

  
  ChurchCrunch — Authority: 521
  This is a Guest Post by Rodlie Ortiz. I recently had the opportunity to hear Jimmy Wales , co-founder of Wikipedia speak at the the launch of a new wiki site for the Tampa Bay Coalition for the Homeless . According to Wikipedia a wiki is a “website that allows the easy creation and editing of a large number ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Chemicals Found in Tap Water- The Five Most Harmful

  
  Common Allergies And Symptoms — Authority: 134
  Harmful chemicals are in your supposedly safe drinking water, do you know? The fact that chemicals are found in tap water has never been hidden by the government. However, government officials focus on what they consider helpful chemicals such as fluoride. Since fluoride is needed to protect teeth from decay, this ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Bhopal gas tragedy victims hold torch rally (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Bhopal, Dec 2 (IANS) As the sun went down on Bhopal Wednesday, victims of the gas tragedy set out on a torch light rally from one landmark, Bhopal Talkies, to another unfortunate landmark - the now defunct Union Carbide factory.The procession was taken out by the Bhopal Group of Information and Action (BGIA) - working ...
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• Enormity of Bhopal gas tragedy of neglect still gnaws our collective conscience: PM

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  New Delhi, Dec.2 (ANI): On the eve of 25th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the enormity of the tragedy of neglect still gnaws at our collective conscience and those affected by the catastrophe deserve our continuing support and sympathy. The gas tragedy, which occurred at ...
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• Bhopal tragedy still affects our collective conscience: PM

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said he shared the grief of those affected by the Bhopal gas tragedy that occurred 25 years ago and said it “still gnaws at our collective conscience”.“The enormity of that tragedy of neglect still gnaws at our collective conscience,” the prime ...
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• Remembering Bhopal tragedy with torch rally

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Bhopal, Dec 2 (IANS) As the sun went down on Bhopal Wednesday, victims of the gas tragedy were set for a torch rally from one landmark, Bhopal Talkies, to another unfortunate landmark - the now defunct Union Carbide factory.The procession is being taken out by the Bhopal Group of Information and Action (BGIA) - ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Demand for Water Officially Exceeds Supply

  
  Life within me — Authority: 140
  Water conservation is a tough subject. While millions of people across the globe don’t have access to safe drinking water, many millions more who are responsible for wasting so much of this precious resource balk at price increases or attempts to ration it because water is a ‘human right’. But now, the need to ...
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• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
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• South Sudan: Jubas public health inspector has ordered all trucks selling water in Juba payams to be painted light blue

  
  Sudan Watch — Authority: 528
  Imagine the fevers and stomach pains.  News just in from Juba, southern Sudan says water retailers in Juba have been accused of using sewage tankers to transport drinking water . The public health inspector for Juba county, Sebit Amusa Tongu’n, has ordered all water-sellers to abide by public health ...
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• Win A Water Filtration Device To Celebrate Charity Climb

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 532
  In January, Jessica Biel and Isabel Lucas will be among a group of celebrities as they set off to climb the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro, to raise awareness of the importance of safe drinking water. And to celebrate, Look To The Stars will give away a PUR water filtration system to one lucky ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Help Improve Water Access In Nicaragua

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 599
  laszlo-photos Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Access to safe and clean water is a right that should be afforded to everyone, but unfortunately pollution, climate change and privatization, among other obstacles prevent one billion people obtaining this vital necessity. This upcoming Thanksgiving week, SYRV , a ...
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• UN celebrates 20 years of child rights convention

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  New York, Nov 20 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Friday called the 20-year-old Convention on the Rights of the Child as a beacon and guide to protect “the youngest and most vulnerable members of society”.The convention was signed into international law in 1989 by the UN General Assembly and it took effect ...
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• ‘Maha Kumbh Mela’ to commence in January

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Haridwar (Uttarakhand), Nov 18 (ANI): The ‘Maha Kumbh Mela’ or the Great pitcher festival, celebrated once in every 12 years, here is expected to attract 10 million people.Satpal Brahmachari, former chairman of the city board, says that the authorities are not utilizing the funds given by the government for the ...
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• Chemicals Found in Tap Water- The Five Most Harmful

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 153
  Did you undergo that there are bruising chemicals in your supposedly innocuous crapulence water? The polity has never proven to conceal the fact that there are chemicals institute in touch water. Government officials same to pore on chemicals that they study adjuvant such as fluoride. Since fluoride is necessary to ...
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• Rapid environmental change threatens human health: Worldwatch

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Washington, Nov 5 (IANS) Changes to the earth’s land cover, climate and ecosystems are endangering the health of hundreds of millions, possibly over a billion, of people worldwide and now represent the greatest public health challenge of the 21st century, says international green think tank Worldwatch Institute.The ...
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• Chesapeake Energy Changes Natural Gas Drilling Over Water Concerns

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 601
  Due to environmental concerns over safe drinking water, Chesapeake Energy Corp. has agreed not to drill for natural gas within the New York City watershed, a small area within the Marcellus Shale natural gas reserve, which includes some of the Appalachian regions of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland and West ...
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