Promote Peace
Nets Save Lives
Studies show that use of insecticide-treated bed nets can reduce transmission as much as 90% in areas with high coverage rates.
Your Signature is more powerful than you think
This film from Amnesty International won the Cannes Lions 2007 Gold Lion Award for Public Service. Powerful!
(Direct Link: YouTube )
Kill Weeds or Grow Lawn?
I read the following at the Tom Barnett's Blog:
The Middle East is certainly the future of "weeds" in globalization's spread, but South and East Asia is obviously where the "lawn" is being grown most heavily right now.
Compressed Air Engine
Great Technology. Using Compressed Air as a fuel with Zero toxic emissions and Great mileage ;-)
School House Rock - Constitution
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Five Reasons Why
Five Reasons Why is a movie made by Amy Wilson. In April, Amy gave away or sold most of her personal belonging, moved out of the home where she’d been living, and cashed in her retirement in order to manifest her dream: a documentary about the impact of climate change on people in the United States. Watch the trailer below:
$100 laptop project
I believe technology can transform the world in a very positive way. We just need to make it accessible to the poor.
The first batch of computers built for the One Laptop Per Child project could reach users by July this year. The scheme is hoping to put low-cost computers into the hands of people in developing countries.
Ultimately the project's backers hope the machines could sell for as little as $100.
Instead of information being stored along the organising principle of folders and a desktop, users of the XO machine are encouraged to work on an electronic journal, a log of everything the user has done on the laptop.
The machine comes with a web browser, word processor and RSS reader, for accessing the web feeds that so many sites now offer.
Complete story: BBC News
