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Beyond access: Quality education for life - Special podcast for the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative

There are a couple of things I see in here that could help with education. Number one among them is lobbying for the development of a comprehensive, relatively small, single… Continue

Posted on May 10, 2010 at 9:29pm

INDIGENOUS WOMEN HEALERS FORMED GROUPS TO PRACTICE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN OAXACA

(MEXICO)

from http://www.kivu.com/wbbook/casestudies.html

So, the most important thing I get out of this is that not only can communities use natural herbs as perhaps a more trusted alternative to pills etc, but it's also cheaper and has more widespread effects- here, the creation… Continue

Posted on May 10, 2010 at 9:18pm

BC Earthquake

One of the big natural disasters we've been waiting to happen here is a major earthquake. Ushahidi could help with resource sharing post-quake. However, this would require some form of communication if cell towers were downed.

Info on water and food would be the most useful, as well as transportation or emergency/high occupancy building collapses that needed immediate attention.

Additionally, info shared on which areas to stay away from in the incidence of flooding or riots would be… Continue

Posted on May 10, 2010 at 9:14pm

water water everywhere

Living in BC, this is a problem I've never had to deal with, so it might be outside my scope to try and recognize many of the problems inherent to this idea. However, I do have a friend who works in Mexico with the water wells. One of the big problems is water purity. If someone could invent a filter made, for example of some form of wood fibre that could be produced locally, it might help solve the problem without requiring distribution or donation of anything but a set of instructions of how… Continue

Posted on May 10, 2010 at 8:56pm

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At 3:23pm on April 9, 2010, nikita aleksander said…: I beileve that ww3 must have china america and russia as allies

At 3:23pm on April 9, 2010, nikita aleksander said…: jk

At 3:23pm on April 9, 2010, nikita aleksander said…: im a stalker

At 3:22pm on April 9, 2010, nikita aleksander said…: i like u

At 3:22pm on April 9, 2010, nikita aleksander said…: i like this poste

At 3:22pm on April 9, 2010, nikita aleksander said…: russsia must stand with america that is the only way we can do all the things we say were doing

At 5:32pm on April 8, 2010, Ursula Kochanowsky said…: I used to have sim Life. Wasn't very good at it. It sounds like fun, i'm already in farmtown, the pre farmville. I don't know how you'd go about coding for ecologies..but I know of sources of info for them if you need them.

At 7:00am on April 8, 2010, Lynn Caldwell said…: Hi - I think you have something with the FarmVille analogy. The more fun and addictive the game - the more players do it. EvokeVille could have some seriously gamey things like FarmVille. Personally, I don't play FarmVille, but my facebook friends do - if you could take evoke problems to the real online ma****, it would be fierce. Let me know if you do anything...I know that the game-makers don't accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, howver, it might be worth getting to know a smallish person in the company, and getting the ideas through - this will only work if you don't want to protect your IPR. Either way - let me know! :o) Take care.

At 7:35pm on April 7, 2010, Ursula Kochanowsky said…: Hahahahahaha! I was thinking the same myself. How could we make a farmville game where people actually learned bout their local ecologies?

At 7:10pm on April 5, 2010, Optimus Prime said…: transplant medicine sure is interesting stuff, i wrote a paper in my undergrad about that. I was really interested in the stuff Anthony Atala was doing with tissue engineering. Hopefully that field finds more success, as I know there are so many in need.