The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At [...]
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Open Society Institute – George Soros
Posted in cooperation, lobby, media, ngo, ong, pace, peace, people, politic, politica, security, sicurezza, society, società, sustainability, tagged batory, central european, ceu, charities, charity, civil society, communism, democracy, democrazia, diritti umani, eastern europe, est, europa, filantropia, fondazione, fondi, foundation, funding, george soros, human rights, independent media, movements, movimenti, no profit, open society, open society institute, OSI, partecipazione, participation, reform, revolution, riforme, rivoluzioni colorate, rivouluzioni, soros, soviet union, studenti, students, sviluppo, transition, transizione, università, university on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Kiva – Loans $25 to change lives
Posted in cooperation, ecosostenibilità, internet, ngo, ong, people, resource, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged aiuto, beneficienza, capital, connect people, cooperation, cooperazione, denaro, developing countries, developing world, donate, donations, donazioni, ecosostenibilità, enterpreneur, enterpreneurs, field partners, finanziatori, fund, help, imprenditori, investimento, istituti di microcredito, kiva, lend, lender, lending, loan, loans, mcrocredito, micro-lending, microcredito, microfinance, microfinance istitutions, microfunds, money, ngo, no profit, ong, paesi in via di sviluppo, partnerships, paypal, people, piccola impresa, piccoli imprenditori, poverty, prestare, prestito, small business, sustainable development, sustanaibility, sviluppo, sviluppo sostenibile on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kiva Microfunds is an organization that allows people to lend money via the Internet to microfinance institutions in developing countries which in turn lend the money to small businesses. It is a 501(c) non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, supported by donations from its users and through partnerships with businesses and [...]
Ecological Footprint
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energia, energy, enviroment, green, health, people, resource, risorse, salute, science, society, sustainability, tagged calculator, earth, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, ecosystem, footprint, human, impronta, index, indice, measurament, misura, regeneration, rifiuti, rigenerare, test, waste, welfare on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth’s ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth’s ecological capacity to regenerate it. It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area needed to regenerate the resources a human population consumes and to absorb and render harmless the corresponding waste, given [...]
DARFUR: “China and USA in New Cold War over Africa’s Oil Riches”
Posted in energy, media, peace, people, politic, tagged africa, chad, china, cold war, darfur, engdahl, globalresearch, oil, oil riches, petroleum, reserves, sources, sudan, uranium, usa on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by F. William Engdahl
The case of Darfur, a forbidding piece of sun-parched real estate in the southern part of Sudan, illustrates the new Cold War over oil, where the dramatic rise in China’s oil demand to fuel its booming growth has led Beijing to embark on an aggressive policy [...]
