From charity : water, the nonprofit organization bringing clean water to hundreds of thousands: Imagine drinking this. Tonight, 29 million Americans will. It was a simple idea we had about a year ago. We wanted to bring the harsh reality we saw in Africa home to our friends. The reality that millions of women and […]
Blue Green Alliance Teams with Gore to Create Green Jobs and Solve Climate Crisis
– by James Parks The Blue Green Alliance (BGA), a strategic partnership between the United Steelworkers (USW) and the Sierra Club, has joined with the Alliance for Climate Protection, the nonprofit organization founded by former Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore, to take action to solve the climate crisis. In a first-of-its-kind program, the BGA and USW […]
Shut it Down! Human Rights Violations at New Orleans’ Juvenile Detention Center
On January 19, 2007, New Orleanians and several local organizations voiced their support of a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of juvenile inmates awaiting trial and housed at Orleans Parish’s Youth Study Center. The lawsuit was filed by the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (JJPL), a local nonprofit. The lawsuit targets Richard Winder, the head […]
$600,000 for Flowers, but No Water for Workers
by Mike Hall, Mar 25, 2008 The Arizona State University Foundation spent nearly $1 million for meals and other events at luxurious Phoenix-area hotels and more than $600,000 in flowers, gifts and trophies in 2005–2006. That same year, overhead expenses, including the meals and flowers, accounted for 56 percent of the foundation’s expenditures, while direct […]
Dhaka second dirtiest city in the World & Earth Award 08 to BD Environmentalist
Dhaka second dirtiest city in the World & Earth Award 08 to BD Environmentalist As I reported before http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangla_ict/message/5403 Dhaka gets the dubious distinction of being the second dirtiest city in the World according to the Forbes magazine. Now the question raised how Bangladesh NGO name "Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) http://www.bcas.net/ has […]
Polar bear, the first potential victim of global warming.
The Interior Department might act soon on its year-old proposal to make the polar bear the first species to be listed as threatened with extinction because of melting ice from a warming planet. The US administration is nearing a decision that would acknowledge officially the environmental damage of global warming and name its first potential […]
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