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Brian G. Dowling

The Most Important Number in the World | MIT World - 0 views

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shared by Brian G. Dowling on 13 Jun 09 - Cached
  • McKibben saw the way ahead as harnessing the Internet’s multiplicative power. In 2007, with the help of six students and email’s exponential impact, 1,400 simultaneous demonstrations took place countrywide. “The thing just went viral,” McKibben exclaims, “…the biggest day of grass-roots environmental activism since the first Earth Day in 1970.” Social networking and cell phones proved most effective tools for mobilization.
  • From Martin Luther King, Jr., McKibben absorbed principles of righteous activism. The good fight must be “creative…determined…joyful.” In closing, McKibben cautions “nature does not grade on a curve.” Global warming “is the morally urgent question of our moment.”
  • Brian G. Dowling on 13 Jun 09
     
    "Just a sleep-deprived activist and organizer." That's how environmentalist Bill McKibben describes his current incarnation, with writing career in abeyance while he proselytizes about the danger of climate change. The plight he first wrote about as hypothesis in 1989 has evolved into "deeply rooted consensus." By 1995, world climatologists agreed: "Human beings are heating up the planet."
  • Brian G. Dowling on 13 Jun 09
     
    This is related to goal 7 of the Millennium Goals. It may not have the label but it is global in scope and defines an issue that will with us for the next millennium based on what we do today.
Brian G. Dowling

How to best use this site and this group - 1 views

I am still trying to come up with the best way of using Diigo and this group to promote the Millennium Development Goals. The reality is that this is a part time, learn-while-doing effort. It is ...

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started by Brian G. Dowling on 31 Dec 09 no follow-up yet
MrGhaz .

Do Diseases Come From Space: Comet Controversy - 1 views

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Astronomers Astronomy atmosphere diseases epidemic health influenza Interstellar Medical medicine Planet Probes science scientists Sir Fred Hoyle Solar System Space Explorer Swine Flu Wickramasinghe. comet

shared by MrGhaz . on 06 Jan 10 - Cached
  • MrGhaz . on 06 Jan 10
     
    To test their theory, the two astronomers studied flu outbreaks in British boarding schools. They found that flu did not spread from dormitory to dormitory, as one might think. Instead, out-breaks began randomly in different dormitories, as they might if they had been caused by organisms they might if they had been caused by organisms drifting through the atmosphere. In addition a flu epidemic in Sardinia in 1948 followed the same pattern.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 17 Jan 10
     
    Sorry about not getting you in the group sooner. I did not realize that I had to approve anybody. So please explain a bit more clearly what this has to do with the Millennium Development Goals?
  • Benno Hansen on 07 Feb 10
     
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