Posted in IT, ambiente, cooperation, cooperazione, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energia, energy, enviroment, green, health, international organization, network, ngo, ong, pace, peace, resource, risorse, salute, security, sustainability, technology, tagged agassi, auto, automobili, battery, better place, car, cars, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, electric car, energia, energy, exchangeable battery, network, nissan, oil, renault, renewable, renewable energy, renewable fuels, shai agassi, sustainability, sustainable energy, transport, transportation, zero emission on March 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Better Place is a project of Shai Agassi, he said a mission, to achieve sustainable transportation, global energy independence and freedom from oil. Better Place does not makes cars but embraces a joint venture with Nissan – Renault which are building zero-emission electric cars and exchangeable batteries.
Better Place network will provide [...]
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Posted in international organization, lobby, ngo, ong, pace, peace, politic, politica, security, sicurezza, tagged civil liberties, democracy, democrazia, diritti, diritti politici, diritti umani, freedom, freedom house, human rights, index of freedom, indice di libertà, libertà, libertà civili, libertie, map of freedom, politica, political rights, politics, rights on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Map of freedom according to Freedom House
Since 1972 Freedom House publishes an annual report, Freedom in the World, on the degree of democratic freedoms in nations and significant disputed territories around the world, by which it seeks to assess the current state of civil and political rights on a scale from 1 (most free) to [...]
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Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energia, energy, enviroment, green, health, international organization, ngo, ong, resource, risorse, salute, sustainability, tagged acqua, ambiente, biodiversità, carburanti, cibo, CO2, cooperation, degradation, degrado, depletion, development, diversity of life, earth, ecologia, ecosistema, ecosistemi, ecosystem, ecosystems, enviroment, fiber, food, forest, fuel, impoverimento, incentivi perversi, legname, life, ma, millenium development goals, natural resources, nature, povertà, resources, risorse naturali, social ecosystem assessment, sustainability, sustainable development, sviluppo, water, well-being on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) was called for by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000. Initiated in 2001, the objective of the MA was to assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and the scientific basis for action needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of those systems and their [...]
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Posted in cooperation, ecosostenibilità, international organization, lobby, ngo, ong, pace, peace, people, politic, resource, risorse, security, sicurezza, sustainability, tagged banche, banchiere dei poveri, banker, banker to the poor, beneficienza, causes, charity, cooperation, cooperazione, dal basso, development, economia, economic development, economic system, economist, economy, ecosostenibilità, enterpreneurs, finanziamenti, from below, global elders, grameen, grameen bank, grameen foundation, imprenditori, lend, lenders, loan, loans, microcredit, microcredito, muhammad yunus, nobel, nobel peace prize, nobel prize, pace, peace, poor, povertà, poverty, premio nobel, prestiti, sistema economico, social development, sustainable development, sustanaibility, sviluppo, sviluppo economico, sviluppo sociale, turner, UN, united nations, united nations foundation, yunus on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He previously was a professor of economics and is famous for his successful application of microcredit – the extension of small loans. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also [...]
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Posted in ambiente, enviroment, health, international organization, people, salute, science, tagged hiv, iarc, who, oms, health, salute, cancer carcinogen, cancro, tumore, factors, fattori, agents, agenti, monographs, risk, rischio, benzene, formaldeide, epstein-barr, helicobacter pylori, hepatitis, papiloma, nickel, smoke, alchool on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of the World Health Organization. The IARC Monographs identify environmental factors that can increase the risk of human cancer. Scientists classified agents as to their carcinogenic hazard to humans in accordance with the Preamble to the IARC Monographs:
Group 1: The agent is carcinogenic to humans.
Group [...]
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Posted in advertising, ecology, energy, enviroment, international organization, lobby, media, ong, peace, people, politic, resource, society, tagged africa, arab, black, bruce dixon, congo, darfur, dixon, genocide, globalresearch, lobby, media, oil, pr scam, resources, save darfur, sudan, uranium, US, war on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Bruce Dixon
The “Save Darfur” Hoax, pt.1/2
The star-studded hue and cry to Save Darfur and “stop the genocide” has gained enormous traction in U.S. media along with bipartisan support in Congress and the White House. But the Congo, with ten to twenty times as many African dead over the same period [...]
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Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, health, international organization, ngo, ong, peace, people, politic, resource, salute, science, security, society, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged brundtland, climate change, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, oil depletion, riciclo, rinnovamento, sustainability, sustainable development, sviluppo sostenibile on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sustainability discourse is discussion of how to make human economic systems last longer and have less impact on ecological systems, and particularly relates to concern over major global problems relating to climate change and oil depletion.
One of the first and most oft-cited definitions of sustainability, and almost certainly the one that [...]
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Posted in cooperation, ecology, energy, international organization, science, society, technology, tagged ambiente, auto, biocarburanti, biofuel, cars, climate change, CO2, combustibili, ecologia, ecology, energia, enviroment, EU, fonti rinnovabili, FP7, idrogeno, petrolio, pollution, potocnik, settimo programma quadro, TRA, transport, trasporti, vehiles on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Europa AudioVisualService
TRA 2008 will be a golden opportunity for EU road transport stakeholders and researchers to discuss new strategies, completing the process that began at Goteborg’s TRA 2006 of creating a true ‘European Road Transport Research Arena’.
Focused on ‘integration’, TRA 2008 will coincide with the implementation phase of the seventh [...]
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Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, film, health, international organization, people, resource, salute, science, society, solidarity, sustainability, technology, tagged air, air pollution, climate, climate change, earth, enviroment, extinctions, famine, gas emissions, global warming, global warning, greenhouse, IPCC, Kyoto protocol, leonardo di caprio, national geographic, oceans, pollution, sea level, temperature, tree media group, weather on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by NationalGeographic
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its projected continuation.
The average global air temperature near the Earth’s surface increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the hundred years ending in 2005. The Intergovernmental [...]
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Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, health, international organization, people, resource, salute, society, sustainability, tagged biodiesel, car, carbon dioxide, climate change, CO2, E85, ecology, enviroment, EPA, Fuel Economy Guide, fuels, gas emissions, Green Vehicle Guide, greenhouse, oil, pollution, renewable fuels, telecommuting, vehicle on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Katiecropper
The burning of fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contributes to climate change, but these emissions can be reduced by improving your car’s fuel efficiency. You can take the following actions to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions, reduce the nation’s dependence on oil and save money.
1. Buy [...]
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