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Thu, 2009-01-29 13:15 — mdmcdonald

The mission of this working group is to explore the evidence regarding points of leverage assisting human groups in coping with or reducing the risk of global climate change.

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Inventor turns cardboard boxes into eco-friendly oven

Thu, 2009-04-09 12:38 — admin

By Saeed Ahmed
CNN

(CNN) -- When Jon Bohmer sat down with his two little girls for a simple project they could work on together, he didn't realize they'd hit upon a solution to one of the world's biggest problems for just $5: A solar-powered oven.

Inventor Jon Bohmer with the oven he has made out of a cardboard box.

The ingeniously simple design uses two cardboard boxes, one inside the other, and an acrylic cover that lets in the sun's rays and traps them.

HOW DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE COPING WITH THE GLOBAL CRISIS

Fri, 2009-03-13 13:06 — admin

SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE:
HOW DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE COPING WITH THE GLOBAL CRISIS

Background Paper prepared by World Bank Staff for the G20 Finance Ministers and Central
Bank Governors Meeting, Horsham, United Kingdom on March 13-14, 2009

Available online PDF [21p.] at:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/NEWS/Resources/swimmingagainstthetide-march2009.pdf

SAISPHERE: Water: The New Reality (pdf version)

Fri, 2009-03-13 11:12 — admin

Below are a list of the articles in the new SAISPHERE focusing on the new understandings regarding global water supplies.

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http://www.sais-jhu.edu/pressroom/publications/saisphere/2008/index.htm

The World Is Dry (pdf version)
by Erik R. Peterson

Getting to the Bottom of Water Scarcity (pdf version)
by Pieter Bottelier

The Mediterranean: Byway or Barrier? (pdf version)
by Esther Brimmer

The Price of Power in the Mekong Delta (pdf version)
by Frederick Z. Brown

Grains of Gold: Water in Central Asia (pdf version)
by John Daly

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