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 [...]
Incidenti stradali
Posted in cooperation, ong, people, society, solidarity, tagged aifvs, auto, codice della strada, feriti, incidenti stradali, pedoni, sicurezza stradale, vittime on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ogni anno scompare un paese di settemila persone
Tante sono le vittime delle strade italiane, 300.000 sono i feriti, ed oltre 20.000 i disabili gravi prodotti da questa guerra non dichiarata.
Il parlamento Europeo ha chiesto all’Italia di ridurre del 40% in dieci anni questi numeri. A ciò lo stato italiano ha risposto [...]
An Inconvenient Truth (Una scomoda verità) – Al Gore (2007)
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, film, health, ong, people, salute, science, society, solidarity, sustainability, tagged air, al gore, an inconvenient truth, antarctic, carbon dioxide, climate change, CO2, davis guggenheim, ecology, enviroment, famine, glaciers, global warming, greenhouse, keeling curve, ocean, pollution, sea level, temperature on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An Inconvenient Truth is an American Academy Award-winning documentary film about global warming, presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore and directed by Davis Guggenheim. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened in New York and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006.
The film’s thesis is [...]
Global Warming
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 [...]
Biofuels starving our people
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, international organization, people, resource, society, solidarity, sustainability, tagged alan garcia, biofuel, bolivia, crisis, energy, enviroment, evo morales, food, hunger, peru, poverty, riot, rising price, UN on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Gato Azul via flickr
the Guardian, April 22 2008
“How important is life and how important are cars? So I say life first and cars second.”
In his UN speech, Morales [Bolivian president] called for the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to take action against the biofuel industry “in order to avoid hunger and misery [...]
Madonna – Hey You – Live Earth
Posted in cooperation, ecology, music, people, society, solidarity, tagged climate, hey you, live earth, madonna on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hey You” is a pop charity song by Madonna. It was released as part of the Live Earth campaign, and Madonna performed the song as part of the Live Earth global concerts on July 7, 2007.
Sorce: wikipedia
Drug-Resistant Tubercolosis: Give us the tools to meet the challenge
Posted in cooperation, international organization, ong, people, society, solidarity, tagged deseas, drugs, farmaci, hiv/aids, infezioni, TB, TBC, tubercolosi, tubercolosis on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Only ten years ago health experts believed that multiple-drug-resistant TB would never present a real problem. Since then, the relentless rise of cases of MDR TB as monitored by the WHO has buried the idea that we are dealing with an easily contained phenomenon. Today, drug-resistant TB is a disease that [...]
