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Danny OCallaghan

How does your nation rank in the world map of life expectancy? | Mail Online - 5 views

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    Life Expectancy
Danny OCallaghan

BBC News - Favela life: Rio's city within a city - 4 views

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    "As Brazil comes under the World Cup spotlight, life goes on as usual for millions of Brazilians working to make a living in the shanty towns - or favelas. The largest favela in Rio de Janeiro is Rocinha, where homes are packed together in a sprawling maze of streets and alleys."
Danny OCallaghan

Humans - the real threat to life on Earth | Environment | The Observer - 3 views

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    "If population levels continue to rise at the current rate, our grandchildren will see the Earth plunged into an unprecedented environmental crisis, argues computational scientist Stephen Emmott in this extract from his book Ten Billion"
Danny OCallaghan

Daily chart: The Melbourne supremacy | The Economist - 0 views

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    "THE best quality of life of any of the world's urbanites is still enjoyed by Melburnians, according to the latest Liveability report by the Economist Intelligence Unit, our corporate sibling. For the third year in a row Australia's second city has kept a hair's breadth ahead of Vienna and Vancouver, which spent almost a decade in first place before Melbourne's reign began. The ranking scores 140 cities on a scale of zero to 100 for each of 30 factors such as the quality of public healthcare or the threat of military conflict. These 30 values are then combined to create scores in five areas: stability, infrastructure, education, health care, and culture and environment. A weighted average of those five numbers gives each city its final score."
Danny OCallaghan

Climate change report: what does it mean for you? - Telegraph - 0 views

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    What are the main findings of the report? How reliable is the IPCC? Do a couple of degrees really matter? How will this affect my everyday life?
Danny OCallaghan

Lifelines on Vimeo - 1 views

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    "In a village 2500m high in the Indian Himalayas, life is changing. Many of the younger generation seek to chart a new course, different from those of their parents. This is one man's story of juggling responsibilities and fighting for dreams, both for himself and for his community."
Danny OCallaghan

Two radically different cities, and the sustainability challenges they face | Guardian ... - 2 views

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    "Here, we look at two cities where, against the odds, efforts to promote sustainable living are emerging. The first is Iqaluit, a remote indigenous community in the Canadian Arctic that is entirely reliant on imported diesel for power yet at the same time is seeing climate patterns impact its traditional ways of life. The second is Johannesburg in South Africa, where efforts to promote alternatives to private car ownership are slowly bearing fruit. "
Danny OCallaghan

BBC News - The village and the girl: The impact of China's urbanisation on Xiao Zhang's... - 0 views

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    "She spent her childhood working in the fields, feeding the family's pigs. The destruction of rural China became for Xiao Zhang a liberation - and an opportunity. This is the story of how her life changed as much as her country."
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Bureaucracy: Fighting for identity | The Economist - 2 views

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    "IN HER parents' bare brick-built shack in southern Beijing, Li Xue sifts through piles of court verdicts, petitions and other papers that record her family's struggle for most of the 20 years of her life to secure a simple document: a household registration certificate, the basic building block of official identity in China. Because she was born in violation of China's one-child-per-couple policy, local officials will not give her one. As a result she could not go to school. She now cannot get a job, nor get married, nor even buy a train or plane ticket. Despite recent moves to relax family-planning rules, the ordeal for Ms Li (pictured) is still far from over."
Danny OCallaghan

BBC News - Where's the best place to be a woman? - 1 views

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    "For five years in a row, Iceland has been rated the country with the world's smallest gender gap by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The rating means Iceland is the country where women enjoy the most equal access to education and healthcare. It is also where women are most likely to be able to participate fully in the country's political and economic life."
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Emit This: 13 Strategies for Squeezing More Life out of Less Carbon - 1 views

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    Another FREE book. Go to the site submit your email address and you will receive the book. It is very good
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BBC News - Did the over-45s ruin life for the rest of us? - 0 views

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    "The richest, most powerful generation that ever lived is embarking on a comfortable retirement. But why does it feel like they've pulled up the ladder with them?"
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Luxury food shortage scares - should we believe the warnings? | Life and style | The Gu... - 0 views

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    "Alarming reports about our favourite treats - including chocolate, wine and prawns - are on the rise. So what is the truth behind the panic?"
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