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Do you believe in empowering rural communities? Check this @apoccas project

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Fukushima Crisis Demands Global Take-Over

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Fukushima Crisis Demands Global Take-Over "We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis." —Harvey Wasserman, author and activist Email the U.N. Secretary General and the U.S. President now! Fukushima’s owner, Tokyo Electric (Tepco), does not have the resources to handle 1,300 spent fuel rods now sitting in a badly damaged pool perched 100 feet in the air, with the potential to spew out more than 15,000 times as much radiation as was released at Hiroshima. The situation demands a coordinated worldwide effort of the best scientists and engineers our species can muster. Chernobyl’s first 1986 fallout reached California within ten days. Fukushima's in 2011 arrived in less than a week. A new fuel fire at Unit 4 would pour out a continuous stream of lethal radioactive poisons for centuries. Former Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata says of full-scale releases from Fukushima, "This is not rocket sci

Richard Branson: 2013 Social Good Summit

What’s really going on with Arctic sea ice? | Grist

What’s really going on with Arctic sea ice? | Grist

Jon Stewart VS. Monsanto: Hilarious Takedown - GreenMedTV

Jon Stewart VS. Monsanto: Hilarious Takedown - GreenMedTV The Daily Show takes on Monsanto's latest assault on local farmers in this hilarious clip... The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , The Daily Show on Facebook

Stats & Facts of the Google Empire - The Wishpond Blog

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[Infographic] Stats & Facts of the Google Empire - The Wishpond Blog Even though we think of it as a search engine, Google has so many arms that it now encompasses aspects of everything from content consumption to mobile phones. In this infographic we’ll see just how much it has grown and how big of a part of our lives it is.

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Meat Leads to 23,000 Deaths Each Year | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Meat Leads to 23,000 Deaths Each Year | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

How to Change the World by Building a Swarm - Shareable

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How to Change the World by Building a Swarm - Shareable In 2005, Rick Falvinge of Sweden launched a new political party, the Swedish Pirate Party , on a platform to reform copyright and patent laws. It's now the third largest party in Sweden, it won two European Parliament seats in 2009, and it inspired the International Pirate Party movement with representation in over 60 countries. The rise of the party has been remarkably fast. In  Swarmwise: The Tactical Manual to Changing the World , Falvinge describes how he did it with a unique, decentralized organizing architecture that leverages the power of technology and the crowd to spread ideas and work across diverse groups of people. Falvinge defines a swarm as: “a decentralized, collaborative effort of volunteers that looks like a hierarchical, traditional organization from the outside. It is built by a small core of people that construct a scaffolding of go-to people, enabling a large number of volunteers to coope

Chipotle's "The Scarecrow" ad is brilliant critique of Big Ag and factory farms : TreeHugger

Chipotle's "The Scarecrow" ad is brilliant critique of Big Ag and factory farms : TreeHugger

Facebook is Doomed?

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Facebook is Doomed | LinkedIn When India's Economic Times asked me to compare Google with Facebook, the comparison struck me as odd. Google is exploring uncharted territory and staking its claims to the next trillion-dollar market opportunities. Facebook is mired in the past and squeezing every penny it can out of its customers to justify its inflated stock price. Unless it happens to luck out by buying the right company, it seems to me, Facebook is doomed. I am posting that article here to see whether anyone really disagrees. So do you agree?   GOOGLE  UP   FACEBOOK DOWN?

Education - Creative Commons

Education - Creative Commons With the internet, universal access to education is possible, but its potential is hindered by increasingly restrictive copyright laws and incompatible technologies. The Education program at Creative Commons works to minimize these barriers, supporting the CC mission through consulting, education, and outreach on using the right technologies and licenses to maximize the benefits of open educational resources (OER) and the return on investment in publicly funded education and research programs. Our work cuts across all levels of education (K-12 to postsecondary) and sectors of industry (nonprofit to corporate).

Why America is NOT the greatest country in the world, anymore.

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Please watch and share this powerful, thoughtful, inspiring message from Robyn O'Brien ... This is why we MARCH!

9 Essential Lessons for Changing the World | Angela Maiers

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9 Essential Lessons for Changing the World | Angela Maiers 9 Essential Lessons for Changing the World Posted: 07/16/2013 11:37 am Read more Girls in STEM , You Matter , choose2matter , quest2matter , Impact News

Send Mallory to the Bammys | Indiegogo

Send Mallory to the Bammys | Indiegogo

Ken Robinson: How schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

Ken Robinson: How schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.  How are young kids reacting to a system in which their individual abilities, interests and passions are limited instead of liberated?  "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." - Pablo Picasso via @ AngelaMaiers

Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley | Video on TED.com

Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley | Video on TED.com This is the most interesting and BEST SPEECH on Education i have ever heard.... Sir Ken Robinson seems to know what most Governments don't seem to know... How to start a Revolution in Education! And he is able to explain it to you in just a few minutes! We need a global Education System that works...and Creates the Creativity to build a brighter a sustainable future! 

Why the future is yours

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Why the future is yours  Why the future is yours By Ashoka - Sep 03, 2013 This post was written by  Paul Polman , CEO of Unilever   who has set out an ambitious vision to double its size while reducing its overall environmental footprint and increasing its positive social impact. Paul recently joined the  B Team , a Virgin Unite initiated not-for-profit formed of a group of global business leaders to create a future where the purpose of business is to be a driving force for social, environmental and economic benefit. Every day, when watching the news, we see pictures of famine and floods, droughts and demonstrations, confronting us with the effects of increasing resource scarcity, climate change, food security, civil unrest and poverty. We see the increasing numbers of people left behind. Many wonder how on earth we are going to address all these challenges. They feel overwhelming and not a little confusing. We should not lose sight of the fact that there is als

Robert Reich explaining how to build a just society