[Signal boosts are awesome. --L.]
- Get Ready for No Impact Monday: Trash
- Discover how wasting less improves your life: Steps to prepare for Day 2 of No Impact Week on January 3rd.
- The Guardian’s Global Development Page: Required Reading
- [GOOD - Ann Marie Gardner]
The Guardian's page on global development, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (full disclosure: they also sponsor GOOD's global health coverage) is a good quick read on the latest breaking issue in global development. One section continuously tracks the ongoing progress of the Millennium Development Goals leading up to 2015 and stories cover everything from cocoa prices in the Ivory Coast affected by the recent election turmoil to podcasts on whether celebrities should be involved in development.
Of their most viewed stories over the last few days, the short film on the dangers facing "house girls" in Africa is haunting and will compel you to grab your checkbook to help keep these girls in school.
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- The Five Global Health Stories of the Year
- [GOOD - Ann Marie Gardner]
The United Nations News Dispatch ranked the biggest global health stories of 2010 today. The best news this year was the progress made in vaccine development for meningitis and the advances in HIV prevention.
Under the "needs more work" section of the list was fallout from the earthquake in Haiti and floods in Pakistan.
…the best news this year came from the growth of of the use of mobile phones and mobile devices to collect data and help with remote diagnostics in the field.
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[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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