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Wednesday, 31 January 2007 |
"Venture capital and private investments in clean energy companies saw a huge leap in 2006, increasing by 167 percent from $2.7 billion to $7.1 billion. The increase was driven by investment in biofuels (up fourfold from $647 million in 2005 to $2.8 billion last year), solar (up 210 percent, thanks to initiatives like California's 'Million Solar Roofs'), and wind (which more than doubled from $307 million to $821 million)." (GreenBiz.com) |
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Wednesday, 31 January 2007 |
Our friends at NewsofInterest.tv pulled together a group of photos showing the people and countryside of Iran and many of the photos look as if they were taken in any city of America ... or Canada ... or Europe.
The women look modern and lovely and the skiing looks fine!
(Images of Iran) |
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Tuesday, 30 January 2007 |
For the third consecutive year, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network will tour the country offering young people a financial literacy life raft for a generation drowning in debt. The 2007 financial empowerment tour features a panel discussion with the group's Co-Chair and music industry icon, Russell Simmons, along with hip-hop artists and financial specialists. The “Get Your Money Right” workbook will be a centerpiece of the program. It will be distributed in both English and Spanish -- as well as online.
“Hip-hop is about eliminating poverty and ignorance...” |
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Tuesday, 30 January 2007 |
"More Americans than ever before are volunteering. In 2005, 29 percent of adults were serving – a 30-year high. Volunteerism is uniquely rooted in the American character (barn-raising and crop harvesting), but now the trend is poised to engender real change" (C.S. Monitor) |
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Tuesday, 30 January 2007 |
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Paris has contracted with a French firm to offer a free bicycle service to commuters, locals and tourists. Following a similar program in Amsterdam, Paris aims to cut the amount of air pollution and traffic throughout the city by offering more than 14,000 bikes ready to ride by this summer. (AP) |
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Monday, 29 January 2007 |
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With help from a nonprofit agency and $10,000 he saved from doing odd jobs, a 17-year-old boy from Truman, Minnesota, is stocking the empty grocery shelves on Main Street to try to revitalize the dying town. (KARE-TV produced this news report and Video for NBC) |
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Monday, 29 January 2007 |
"I immediately fell in love with her," Karen said about Abby. "She was absolutely gorgeous and she just started snuggling and kissing my ear as soon as I picked her up."
Since that day in 2002, Karen and her husband, Steve, have opened their home for, and rescued, hundreds of guinea pigs. They find new families to adopt them in the Cincinnati area... |
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Monday, 29 January 2007 |
"Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, said African churches were paying too much attention to the issue of homosexuality while ignoring real problems facing the continent. "I am deeply, deeply distressed that in the face of the most horrendous problems - we've got poverty, we've got conflict and war, we've got HIV/AIDS - and what do we concentrate on? What you are doing in bed," Tutu told journalists in Nairobi during the World Social Forum..." |
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Monday, 29 January 2007 |
Abbé Pierre, the French Roman Catholic priest whose radio appeal in 1954 for the homeless and destitute stirred the conscience of his nation has died at age 94. Pope Benedict XVI expressed "thanks for his activity in favor of the poorest." Using his fame to challenge political leaders about homelessness and campaigning for the destitute until the end of his life, he was frequently voted France's most popular man, ahead of even personalities like football star Zinedine Zidane...
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Monday, 29 January 2007 |
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"A young disabled man who receives care for his life-limiting illness at a hospice run by a nun spoke yesterday of his decision to use a prostitute to experience sex before he dies." Twenty-two-year-old Nick explained, "There are many aspects of life that an able-bodied person takes for granted but from which I am excluded. I had hoped to form a relationship when I went to university, but it didn't happen." (photo- Telegraph) |
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