Peace Direct is a charity based in London which supports grassroots peacebuilders in areas of conflict. Peace Direct focuses on supporting grassroots peacebuilders who are local to the conflict and have a clear vision of what needs to be achieved. Peace Direct funds this work, promotes it and learns from it. [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Ecocho: the eco search engine
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, health, internet, media, resource, risorse, salute, solidarietà, sustainability, technology, tagged alberi, clima, climate, CO2, ecocho, ecologia, ecology, effetto serra, enviroment, google, green, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, inquinamento, motore di ricerca, pollution, riforestazione, search engine, trees, verde, yahoo on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ecocho is a new search engine trying to make a difference for climate change.
For every 1000 searches users make on Ecocho we’ll counter balances or “offset” up to a ton of greenhouse gases. We do this by sponsoring two trees via advertising on the site.
Ecocho is a free service, and it’s one of the easiest [...]
How much biofuels contribute to higher food prices?
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, health, international organization, pace, peace, people, politic, resource, risorse, salute, security, sicurezza, society, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged alimentation, émeut, biocarburanti, biofuel, céréales, cereal, cereali, cibo, ethanol, faim, fame, FAO, food, pauvreté, prices, riot, rivolte, UN on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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The idea of turning farms into fuel plants seemed, for a time, like one of the answers to high global oil prices and supply worries [...] But now a reaction is building against policies in the United States and Europe to promote ethanol and similar fuels, [...]
World cereal reserves are depleted
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, health, international organization, ngo, ong, peace, people, resource, risorse, salute, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged africa, cereal, cereal reserve, cereali, cibo, clima, crop, famine, FAO, food, grano, mais, maize, report, rice, riso, scorte, UN, weather, wheat on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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11 April 2008, Rome – The cereal import bill of the world’s poorest countries is forecast to rise by 56 percent in 2007/2008. This comes after a significant increase of 37 percent in 2006/2007, FAO said today.
For low-income food-deficit countries in Africa, the cereal bill is projected to increase by [...]
FAO Hunger Map
Posted in cooperation, ecosostenibilità, health, international organization, ong, people, resource, risorse, salute, security, society, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged biofuel, emergency, FAO, food, hunger map on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
9 April 2008, New Delhi
Urgent measures required to reduce impact of high food prices on the poor.
“World food prices have risen 45 percent in the last nine months and there are serious shortages of rice, wheat and maize,” FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said.
A combination of factors, including reduced production due to climate change, historically low [...]
Free Rice
Posted in cooperation, ecosostenibilità, games, health, internet, ngo, ong, people, risorse, salute, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged food, free, free games, free rice, hunger, solidarity, sustainability, sustainable development, sviluppo sostenibile, UN, world food program on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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