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[Worldchanging: Bright Green] Place Your Bids: Worldchanging Ideas Auction: The first of these projects include the construction of a monument sized all mechanical 10,000 Year Clock, and a seminar series about long-term thinking hosted by Stewart Brand.

[New Government Speeches] C Chabane: Limpopo Economic Development, Environment and Tourism ...: We have therefore developed a comprehensive Environmental IDP Toolkit for municipalities with the intention of firstly providing clear guidelines on how to mainstream environment sustainability and secondly to present to municipalities an easy to use set of tools and checklist in the integration of environment sustainability in the planning process. We continue to encourage municipalities to put in place proper waste management systems through the Cleanest Town Competition.

[iCommons.org - articles] iCommons.org - 10 of the Best Conferences, Meet-ups, UnConferences ...: About 400 people attended last year’s DebConf, in Edinburgh, and they proved that they have a sense of fun: for this event, attendees created their own tartan, the colours of which reflected the Debian swirl logo, Tux the Linux penguin and other relevant logos and mascots. The white in the tartan spells out DEBIAN in Morse Code.

[New Government Speeches] B van Wyk: Northern Cape Housing and Local Government Prov Budget ...: In conclusion, allow me to express a special word of thanks to our partners in local government and housing delivery, the South-African Local Government Association (SALGA) in the Northern Cape, the Development Bank of Southern Africa, Thubelisha Homes, the National Home Builders Registration Council, the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the South African Institute for Consulting Engineers (SAICE), Department of Provincial and Local Government (DPLG), Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF), Provincial Treasury, other sector departments at a national and provincial level, all mayors, councillors and officials at municipal level and the communities of the Northern Cape.

[Coral Michelin Unblog] Needed: Leadership From Architects and Designers (from ...: As Worldchanging contributor Patrick Rollens wrote in 2007, the United States has the opportunity to remake the built environment by 2030, when about half the nation’s buildings will have been built or substantially renovated in 2000 or .

[News - Rural Innovation Systems] Prolinnova News and Events: The current POG Chair, Scott Killough from World Neighbors welcomed the new members elected in early 2009: Magagi Saidou from Niger (for francophone Africa), Hector Velasquez from Bolivia (for Latin America), Sabina Di Prima from the Centre for International Cooperation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands (for the Prolinnova International Support Team) and Susan Kaaria from Ford Foundation Nairobi Office as an independent member. Qureish Noordin from Prolinnova–Kenya took part in place of Monica Kapiriri, the elected POG member who was unable to attend this meeting.

[Pambazuka News :Features] Pambazuka News : Issue 407: In a sector supported by lax tax collection by the country’s government and whose only concern is for profit, companies such as Barrick Gold Corporation have much to answer for in the face of widespread environmental degradation, the displacement and forcible removal of local people, and criminalisation of local mining activities. Drawing on the information collected within damning reports such as A Golden Opportunity?, Rubara documents the extent to which mining companies operate with impunity in Tanzania, an impunity giving rise to sustained abuse of local people’s rights and wholesale stealing of national resources.

[Docstoc feed for: Educational] Social Capital Markets 2008 program guide: Xavier served as the original software architect of Better World Books' proprietary software (Indaba) technology and continues to oversee key aspects of technology development while also serving as the Company's head of both domestic and international business development efforts. ...

[Pambazuka News :Features] Pambazuka News : Issue 341: • History and the present state of African higher education in general, in North Africa and in Morocco in particular • Contexts - national, regional and global - of higher education reform in North Africa, the implications on the democratisation process and to what extent the present reform has consolidated academic freedom, developed capacity in knowledge production and contributed to the promotion of social progress in North Africa • Strategies for the strengthening of academic freedom and social responsibility in North African contexts • Development of private universities and the privatisation of certain services in institutions of higher education and their impact on academic freedom • Impact of the universalisation of higher education reform in North African countries on academic freedom • Social actors in the struggle for academic freedom • Autonomy of university and the State The abstracts of contributions must reach the email of the CODESRIA Secretariat on 10 February 2008, latest. The abstracts must not exceed one page (font: Times New Roman, font size: 12, single space) and must contain the title, the contacts, affiliation and biography of the applicant.

[Rotman Magazine] The Magazine of the Rotman School of Management / Fall 2007 Roger ...: est in sustainability, social responsibility and protecting the environment. If their interest is genuine, aren't big companies risking trouble by losing sight of the bottom line?

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