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Blog Post Why Now is the Right Time For the Catholic NGO's To Jump Onboard by Joan
I was looking for pictures for this post and the only one that didn't leave me completely speachless was this plain picture of long grain rice. Experiment for a moment. Go to Google images, wr...
Blog Post Northern Iraqi Refugees From Turkish and Iranian Bombings by Joan
While we are involved in the presidential race some people around the world are involved in just staying alive from day to day. In The Qandil mountains, North Iraq, both Turkey and Iran have be condu...
Blog Post Meet Aureophycus aleuticus, One Of The New Marine Species Found in Survey by Joan
Photograph by Max K. Hoberg/Institute of Marine Science/University of Alaska Fairbanks/courtesy COML This is one of the new species found in the 10 year survey, including scientists from...
Blog Post Marketing Strategies For The Green Movement by Joan
This is not my own personal thought, but I am adopting it because - it makes such total sense, I am not sure why I, or very many others for that matter have chosen this line of action. The green move...
Blog Post Equal Pay? by Joan
Did you know that the average American woman makes only 77 cents to every Dollar the American man makes? Most people are unaware of the differences in pay with people from different genders doing ...
Blog Post Making The World a Better Place, Here's How by copper
There are many devoted people out there that actually care enough about the world to try and make it a better place. This time I want to focus on the people that give up a lot of their time an...
Blog Post Provide Relief For the Earth Quake Victims From Your Home. by Joan
Many humanitarian organizations are in the midst of trying to help the victims of the two natural catastrophes to hit Asia recently.One such organization is the Humanitarian agency Church World S...
Blog Post Break Free with The New American Revolution by Joan
This is a softer post than the usual. We lead a pretty cushioned life here in the states, for the most part we have every thing we need, most of us have food in our plates and roofs over our h...
Blog Post Green Peace Protest Heathrow's Expansion Plans by Joan
An interesting and very creative PR stunt recently by Green peace and actress Emma Thompson, Comedian Alistair Mcgowan and Zac Goldsmith who bought a plot of land right in the middle of the proposed ...
Blog Post 500,000 Women Die Due to Maternity Causes Annually. Only 5,000 In The Western World by Joan
I am a Little behind in posting this but as they say - better late than never. The 16th of October was the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty , for the 15th consecutive year. Accord...
Blog Post Are You Ready for Houda Nonoo by Joan
Houda Nonoo is the first woman ambassador of Bahrain to the united states. Not only that , she is also the first Jewish ambassador of Bahrain. I first read about this here . Nonoo, at only 4...
Blog Post Maude Barlow Appointed As U N's First Senior adviser On Water Issues by Joan
photo Canadian activist Maude Barlow, who is co founder of the Blue Planet Project, a group that works to protect fresh water from trade and privation internationally, has been appointed as...
Blog Post Where We Live Is What We Eat by Joan
In this week end of Thanks Giving I thought it only appropriate to say thank you to who ever is responsible for me being born to my parents and being a citizen of the west. Eric  from Stop G...
Blog Post The Big Ask: Climate change, "ACT NOW!" by Joan
The Big Ask: Climate change, "ACT NOW!" I found this on the Island of Doubt and thought I would get it out there a bit more via the blog. James, the author of the Island of...
Blog Post Total Blindness to Climate Change. by Joan
Playing ostrich with heads in the sand seems to be the way to describe the republicans attitude towards Climate Change. Although both presidential candidates address the Issue, and according to Clima...
Blog Post A truly Innovative Way to Think About English by Joan
I thought that I would write about something completely different today. There is a whole movement, or sub culture amongst us that believes in "rewilding" ourselves and our ways of life to a more...
Blog Post Volunteering For The Important Tasks by Joan
One of the organizations out there that can really be assisted by your involvements is the FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS. This is an organizations that sets for himsel...
Blog Post Should Water Have a Price??? by Joan
I found this interesting blog on the commodifcation of water. Riccardo Petrella of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium is rightly concerned that a billion people do not have access ...
Blog Post Barak Obama's Climate Change Policy by Joan
From his mouth to gods ear. Thanks Maribo for the Video
Blog Post For Asia Lovers by copper
With the recent attention that Asia gets in the news as a result of the recent events in Burma and China, I wanted to introduce you to a very interesting project of the graduate school of journa...
Blog Post Need a Reality Check? Probably 50,000 Dead! by Joan
This recent cyclone has us all in shock by the proportions of it. This blogger had an interesting way of putting it: 22,500 dead and 41,000 missing. This number is incredible. I was loo...
Blog Post Ron Sims New Deputy Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. by Joan
Looks like Obama is sticking to his words on all that is green and has nominated Ron Sims to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sims has a long green tende...
Blog Post Biomimicry by Joan
Today I learned a new word. Biomimicry. Biomimicry  is in essence the mimicking or imitating of nature to solve problems in all walks of design research and industry. The question to ask y...
Blog Post How to Move Things With a Little Effort by Joan
It seems that Ofra's Big Give television show is inspiring people to organize local efforts under the beautiful idea of paying forward. Here is a story of one of these events that took place in G...
Blog Post Climb Aboard the boycott of the Chinese Olympic Games by Joan
Time is running out And a move needs to be made Now. I read very insightful article on the Telegraph which I quote only partially but recomend reading in full.  We can go further....
Blog Post Mandela's Support on Demand by Joan
Rueters tells us that Peter Tatchell the human rights activist is demanding of Mandela to speak out against Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe. Nelson Mandela should publicly urge Robert ...
Blog Post Car Fueled By Human Fat. by Joan
Something about this just gives me the shivers. I am all for green sustainable living but this is taking it a bit to far. I must say, it kind of reminded me of Nazi Germany with soap from human ...
Blog Post Northern Ice Is Declining. Still. Regardless of Wishful Thinking. by Joan
A lot has been said recently and  not so recently about global warming and subsequently about the Northern Hemisphere sea ice. I am not a scientist, and it the charts and explanations are oft...
Blog Post Some Good News by Joan
Some Good New for sure on election day. According to Spere the referendum question for Stratford Coneticut residents wil be whether to sell the town''s portion of Longh Beach West the the US F...
Blog Post Kafkaesque world by Joan
Sometimes I feel Like we live in a completely Kafkaesque world, or maybe through Alice's looking glass. A fine example of what would create that feeling with me is a post a read on Green leave rep...
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