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 »
Farmers’ markets – Mercati del contadino
Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, health, resource, risorse, salute, society, società, sustainability, tagged agricoltore, agricoltura, biologico, cibo, cost, ecologia, ecologico, farmer, farmers' markets, farmland, farms, filiera corta, grande distribuzione, green, greenmarkets, inquinamento, km 0, locale, locally-grown, market, mercati del contadino, mercato, natural, naturale, naturally, piccole imprese, piccoli agricoltori, pmi, production, qualità, risparmio, sano, spesa, stagionalità, sustainability, territorio, wholesale on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Farmers’ markets, sometimes called greenmarkets, are markets, usually held out-of-doors, in public spaces, where farmers can sell produce to the public.
Farmers’ market produce is renowned for being locally-grown and very fresh. People argue farmers’ markets allow farmers to pick produce at the peak of flavor, preserve the nutritional content of fresh [...]
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 [...]
The Guardian International Development Journal Competition
Posted in media, ngo, ong, society, tagged article, competition, contest, development, freelance, guardian, journal, journalism, media, poverty, writers, writing on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you have the ability to be a top-notch journalist? Could you write the sort of articles the Guardian would be happy to publish? Here is the chance for your work to be published alongside some of the best journalism in the UK.
The Guardian, in partnership with eight UK-based international non-government organisations (NGOs), wants to [...]
Ten Reasons Why “Save Darfur” is a PR Scam to Justify the Next US Oil and Resource Wars in Africa
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 [...]
Sustainability – Ecosostenibilità
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 [...]
Hydrogen car
Posted in cooperation, ecology, energy, enviroment, people, science, society, technology, tagged air pollution, alimentazione ibrida, ambiente, anidride carbonica, automobili, automobili a idrogeno, behavior, benzina, car, carbon dioxide, CO2, diesel hybrid, effetto serra, electric motor, energia, energy, enviroment, fuel, gas emissions, gas serra, greenhouse, hydrogen, hydrogen car, hydrogen vehicle, idrocarburi, idrogeno, inquinamento, macchine a idrogeno, petrolio, reformin, renewable, rinnovabile, toyota prius on April 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A hydrogen vehicle is a vehicle that uses hydrogen as its on-board fuel for motive power. The problem is that hydrogen is an energy carrier, not an energy source, so the energy the car uses would ultimately need to be provided by a conventional power plant.
“Hydrogen is an energy carrier,” points out Wolfgang Leder of [...]
