Focal Point: looking at Haiti's future

Tue, 2010-01-26 04:43 — admin

Series of articles in Focal Point, Canadian Foundation for the Americas March issue put Haiti in the center.

Haiti Needs Jobs To Be Sustainable
Carlo Dade

Haiti’s Economic Prospects ‘Hopeful’
Carlo Dade interviews Paul Collier

Paul Collier’s Report on Economic Security in Haiti
Robert Maguire

Le Rapport de Paul Collier sur la sécurité économique en Haïti
Robert Maguire

Ignoring rural Haiti is a recipe for failure
Yasmine Shamsie

Riding the Waves of Rescue, Rebuilding and Resurrection: Mark Hyman, MD

Tue, 2010-01-26 04:27 — admin

The following is a blog post from Mark Hyman, MD posted 23 January 2010 on The Huffington Post.

Note: Two photo slideshows appear in this post on the Huffington Post website. The first one is not graphic. The second one includes extremely graphic depictions of surgery and wounds. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.

Haiti Journal Day 8: The Tsunami Coming -- Riding the Waves of Rescue, Rebuilding and Resurrection

The Best Field Medicine Set-Up Available Is From the Israelis

Tue, 2010-01-26 04:07 — JRees

In case you missed the footage of the incredible field hospital set up by the Israelis' in Haiti, up and running a mere 48 hours after the quake, here it is "the best field medicine available".

Solar Recovery In Haiti: Building Tough Solar Cities

Tue, 2010-01-26 03:23 — admin

Alex Aylett, 21 Jan 10

Last week's quake cut electricity to most of Haiti's capital. Without power, residents and aid workers are struggling to maintain basic communication, lighting and water purification systems.

CBC News had reports of officials queuing to recharge their mobile phones. What power there is comes from gas powered generators, but diesel is running low.

Center For American Progress: Haiti’s Changing Tide A Sustainable Security Case Study

Tue, 2010-01-26 03:19 — admin

The United States should use the brief "dual window" in Haiti to initiate a virtuous circle of development.

By Reuben Brigety, Natalie Ondiak | September 1, 2009

Read the full report from Center for American Progress

Haitian Ambassador to US: building smaller, better from the ruins

Tue, 2010-01-26 00:33 — admin

Raymond Joseph, Haitian ambassador to the U.S., sees the opportunity to build a smaller, better city from the ruins.

Starting from scratch in Haiti's Port-au-Prince ruins

By Andres Viglucci and Scott Hiaasen

McClatchy Newspapers

MIAMI —

Jared Diamond: A divided island - the forces working against Haiti

Tue, 2010-01-26 00:10 — admin

Why does Haiti have it so tough compared with its neighbour, the Dominican Republic?

The following was printed in The Guardian on Friday 15 January 2010 and is extracted from the book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond, 2005.

After Haiti: Worries of Pending Big Quakes Elsewhere

Thu, 2010-01-21 04:40 — JRees

Inside Science reports on worries about big earthquakes in the US, and Caribbean.

With the world focusing upon the destruction in Haiti in terms of human impact, geologist are looking at the impact of the earth movement to populations living along other fault lines in the Caribbean. And too, what other parts of the world are pending risk from a major earthquake.

Mobile Action in Haiti

Sun, 2010-01-17 17:14 — JRees

Mobile phones are playing a significant role in the relief efforts in Haiti. From on the ground communications information sharing to fund raising, mobile is proving its' muscle in Haiti.

TWITTER
Many Haiti twitter lists have been set up, including those by reliable news organizations:
CNN Haiti Boots On The Ground Twitter list
NPR Haiti Earthquake Twitter List
New York Times Haiti Earthquake Twitter list

Group Think and Climate Change

Sun, 2009-12-20 10:29 — admin

Global Warming as Groupthink
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's process institutionalizes groupthink on a global scale.

By PETER LILLEY

Is the U.S. Really Ready to Make Substantive Efforts to Control Climate Change?

Fri, 2009-12-18 09:28 — admin

President Obama's speech in Copenhagen speaks strongly to his Administration's intent to control climate change. However, is the U.S. truly ready to live us to commitments the Obama Administration is prepared to make to the world community?

Why Copenhagen Still Matters: The climate talks won't seal a binding global deal, but a lot can still go right in Denmark

Sat, 2009-12-12 06:49 — admin

BusinessWeek Special Report

By Eileen Claussen

Two years ago this week, on the island of Bali, representatives of 180 nations agreed on an ambitious timeline for reaching a global agreement to address climate change. The Bali Road Map, as it was called, identified key issues to be resolved and set a 2009 deadline for completing the negotiations.

Margaret Atwood from the UK 10:10 project

Sat, 2009-10-31 19:03 — JRees

ROM THE UK
The project is called 10:10. The goal is to unite every sector of British society behind one simple idea: that by working together they can achieve a 10% cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010.
http://www.1010uk.org/#what_is_1010

To support the launch of the 10:10 Climate campaign in the UK, the Guardian newspaper http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/series/10-10-climate-change-special
asked authors to write new work in response to the climate crisis.

Climate Change: "Biggest Health Threat"

Wed, 2009-10-14 16:00 — JRees

The cost of climate change extend far beyond the welfare of polar bears. Food supplies, drinking water, and basic survival could become issues for all species in response to extreme weather events, flooding, drought and fires.

Doctors use the term “golden hour” to refer to the time in which critically ill and injured patients must receive medical care, otherwise, death appears certain. The question is, are we now at the golden hour of species health, particularly human species health, due to the impacts of climate change?

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