World food security and the global economic crisis

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009
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This presentation, based on the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) publication The State of Food and Agriculture 2009, deals with world food security and the global economic crisis. More people are hungry today than at any point since 1970, [...]

Mobile health solutions for West Africa

MHealth Alliance (picture source) and Orange Healthcare team up to develop mobile health solutions for West Africa.
At the GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Orange Healthcare announced last week that they will be joining the mHealth Alliance, a partnership which leverages rapid advances in mobile technology to improve public health, health care systems and patient [...]

Kevin Kelly tells technology’s epic story

In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking talk from TEDxAmsterdam, Kevin Kelly muses on what technology means in our lives — from its impact at the personal level to its place in the cosmos.

Kevin Kelly has been publisher of the Whole Earth Review, exec editor at WIRED, founder of visionary nonprofits, and writer on biology and business and [...]

Keeping an eye on the Earth

The European Environment Agency (EEA) and Microsoft have recently launched a website which collects climate data, by actively encouraging EU citizens to actively contribute their observations about the environment, reports BBC.
Water and air quality data from the member countries are displayed on an interactive map, and official data from the EEA as well as the [...]

Learning for a sustainable world

MKFC Stockholm College is working to realize Education for All (EFA) and to make the educational activities sustainable (ESD).
“In this regard, EFA provides the basic foundation for building more just societies focusing on rights, empowerment and development, but it does not go far enough. This is where ESD reinforces EFA efforts by challenging dominant conceptions, [...]