PEACE-KEEPERS OR BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS ? By Venatrix Fulmen A Call to End the Deadly Impact of Foreign Troopers on Innocent Civilians OUTBREAK +++Cholera+++RiftValleyFever+++MarburgFever+++DengueFever+ ++YellowFever+++HIV/AIDS+++Malaria+++AvianFlu+++SwineFlu++ +++HantaVirus+++ and so on – these lines run through the news tickers of media agencies every day. In well-off societies, at least the pharmaceutical industries are interested in upping […]
Effective Sales Process through Internet
Increasing Sales Through Strategic Internet Marketing What use to be the traditional way of marketing products & services is now things of the past. Even marketing via newspapers, magazines or other printing materials have becoming less popular. More & more It is good to know that there are millions of searchers out […]
Depending on A Global Workforce
This is the second and third parts in a series of blogs Nourishing the Planet will be writing about workers in the food system. Nourishing the Planet research intern Ronit Ridberg recently spoke with Erik Nicholson, National VP of the United Farm Workers of America. In the first part of this two-part interview, Erik talks […]
Improving Farmer Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation
Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Earlier this week, we highlighted Nicholas Kristof’s OP-ED in the New York Times about Gabon, a country in West-Central Africa where the rights of farmers are frequently in conflict with wildlife conservation efforts. One young village chief and farmer, Evelyn Kinga explained that she doesn’t like elephants […]
1,000 Words About Ethiopia
Cross posted from BorderJumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. We started this trip in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a place most Americans associate with war and hunger because of the famines of the mid 1980s and 1990s. Even today, more than 6 million people in Ethiopia are at risk for starvation so we think we had […]
How Senator Vitter Battled the EPA Over Formaldehyde’s Link to Cancer
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has pushed the EPA to slow its process of updating its 20-year-old health assessment of formaldehyde. After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of his state’s residents said they suffered respiratory problems after being housed in government trailers contaminated with formaldehyde. (Left: A child looks out of a FEMA trailer in Port Sulphur, La. […]
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