"Half the Sky": A Review for a Muslim audience

Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:14 PM EST

Columnists for the New York Times have enormous power of persuasion in their writing but more significantly their impact simply comes from the unique pedestal the paper offers to get an audience of millions worldwide.

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religion, kristof, new-york-times, womens-rights, pakistan, islam, muslims

Environmental Innovation Began Early in Erstwhile 'Smoky City'

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 1:24 PM EST (waterworld.com)

technology, pittsburgh, coal, soot, green-jobs

The Ecology of Walmart

Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:57 PM EDT

Introduction

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business, china, walmart, corporate-social-resposibility, box-stores, environmental-planning

Texas firm has plan to make Gulf's salty water drinkable | Energy | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Seeded on Fri Oct 9, 2009 9:37 PM EDT (The Houston Chronicle)

A Texas firm plans to use power generated by the Gulf of Mexico's waves to make its salty water drinkable. Renew Blue Inc. says its project can address two global problems — climate change and scarce drinking water — by using clean energy to turn seawater to freshwater.

us-news, water, desalination, texas, wave-energy, renewable-energy

Oasis of Learning in Saudi Arabia?

Sun Sep 27, 2009 2:54 PM EDT

King Abdullah had another cause for celebration at the end of the Muslim Holy Month of ramadan this year – the opening of his namesake University of Science and Technology (The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) – which is being marketed with the awkward acr …

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world-news, saudi-arabia, al-qaeda, terrorism, abdullah, kaust

Verizon Apologizes for Sponsoring Mountaintop Removal Rally

Seeded on Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:57 PM EDT (biologicaldiversity.org)

us-news

Consumerism is 'eating the future' - opinion - 07 August 2009 - New Scientist

Seeded on Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:31 PM EDT (newscientist.com)

Gloom and doom from the Ecological Society of America meeting

science, environment, global-warming, climate-change, population, consumption

A brief history of climate change and conflict | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Seeded on Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:01 AM EDT (thebulletin.org)

world-news

Gojra Tragedy - A call for action

Seeded on Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:58 PM EDT (southasiaanalysis.org)

A Pakistani Christian writes about the tragedy in a Punjabi village recently in which an angry mob destroyed many Christian homes and left several people dead.

religion

Hydropolitics in Asia

Seeded on Fri Aug 7, 2009 1:27 PM EDT (Carnegie Council)

Because of its importance as a water source for the most populous parts of the world, the Himalayan and Tibetan region will be the bellwether for any progress that can be made on this vital resource issue.

world-news, water, china, tibet, pakistan, india, himalayas

"New" Nuclear Reactors, Same Old Story

Seeded on Fri May 8, 2009 2:34 AM EDT (rmi.org)

technology, nuclear-energy, environment, rocky-mountain-institute

Norwegian envoy calls for making Siachen Peace Park

Seeded on Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:15 AM EDT (thenews.com.pk)

world-news, pakistan, siachen, india, norway, glaciers, climate-change, water-scarcity

Water Fight

Seeded on Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:16 PM EDT (TIME)

The potential for conflict over water in Asia

world-news

Treating Pakistan's Cancer

Seeded on Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:56 AM EDT (The Daily Times)

The metaphor of "cancer" is particularly apt for our purposes: highly targeted radiotherapy, analogous to commando-style raids that have yielded important Al Qaeda targets, are essential to kill cancer cells.

world-news, pakistan, obama, terrorism, afghanistan

Obama's Network Power

Sun Nov 9, 2008 4:33 AM EST

Political scientists will be analyzing, for years to come, how Barack Obama was able to win the 2008 US presidential election with such alacrity.

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us-news, obama, internet, networks, environment

| Pakistani prince does it his way

Seeded on Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:14 AM EDT (BBC News)

A Pakistani aristocrat is using his wealth for social development but the outcome remains uncertain.

world-news, pakistan, millenium-development-goal, social-developmen-t

Palin's Alaskan approach to natural resources

Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:43 PM EDT

Energy and the environment were clashing forces in US Senator and Republican presidential nominee John McCain's selection of Alaska's governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.

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us-news, sarah-palin, john-mccain, alaska, mining, oil, environment

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

Seeded on Mon Sep 8, 2008 1:41 PM EDT (Wired News)

science, hypothesis-testing, theory, research-methods, modeling

Across Congo, Freelance Miners Dig In Against Modern Industry - washingtonpost.com

Seeded on Tue Sep 2, 2008 6:34 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

Illegal mining scourges war-ravaged Congo

world-news, congo, africa, gold, diamonds

The New Coal Age

Seeded on Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:56 PM EDT (theecologist.org)

Article lamenting the rise of coal from one of Britain's premier environmentalist magazines

politics, coal, fossil-fuels, climate-change

Psychologists determine what it means to think 'green' - USATODAY.com

Seeded on Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:35 PM EDT (USA Today)

Psychologists are considering research paths to understanding environmental behavior.

science, environmentalism, behavioral-economics, conservation-psychology

Ecological Dilemmas

Fri Jul 4, 2008 11:54 PM EDT

The decision made by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on June 27 to halt new applications for solar power developments on public land raises some new challenges for environmentalists.

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politics, environmental-politics, solar-energy, nuclear, vermont

Apocalypse in Islam and Christianity

Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:06 PM EDT

As people of Faith ponder their options with militancy on various accounts, it may be worthwhile to step back for a moment and reflect on what constitutes "fundamentalist" doctrines.

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Environmentalists Court Minority Students - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:31 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Working with inner-city high school kids, students recruit for environmental education

us-news, environmental-education, vermont, bronx

Obama's elusive race

Seeded on Sat Jun 7, 2008 9:41 PM EDT (The Daily Times)

We are still living in a world where race is more likely to be co-opted as a superficial tool of political posturing rather than a quality for substantive change.

us-news, barack-obama, race-relations, islam

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"Half the Sky": A Review for a Muslim audience
Columnists for the New York Times have enormous power of persuasion in their writing but more significantly their impact simply comes from the unique pedestal the paper offers to get an audience of millions worldwide.
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The Ecology of Walmart
Introduction
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Texas firm has plan to make Gulf's salty water drinkable | Energy | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Source: The Houston Chronicle
A Texas firm plans to use power generated by the Gulf of Mexico's waves to make its salty water drinkable. Renew Blue Inc. says its project can address two global problems — climate change and scarce drinking water — by using clean energy to turn seawater to freshwater.
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Oasis of Learning in Saudi Arabia?
King Abdullah had another cause for celebration at the end of the Muslim Holy Month of ramadan this year – the opening of his namesake University of Science and Technology (The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) – which is being marketed with the awkward acr …
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Hydropolitics in Asia
Source: Carnegie Council
Because of its importance as a water source for the most populous parts of the world, the Himalayan and Tibetan region will be the bellwether for any progress that can be made on this vital resource issue.
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