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Natural Skin Care Products - 1 views

I always want my skin to look fair and natural. I have been using many skin care products, yet, I obtain no change. My skin did not even improve. I am looking for a natural skin care product that...

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Benno Hansen

Extinction Countdown: Bugs off: Habitat loss killing Europe's butterflies, beetles and ... - 0 views

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EU Europe biodiversity endangered species

shared by Benno Hansen on 20 Mar 10 - Cached
  • The Red List update finds that 9 percent of Europe's butterflies, 11 percent of its saproxylic beetles and 14 percent of dragonflies are threatened with extinction, at least within the geographic confines of the European Union
  • Butterflies, for instance, play a hugely pivotal role as pollinators in the ecosystems in which they live.
  • 31 percent of Europe's 435 butterfly species suffer declining populations
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  • The habitat loss afflicting these species comes from many factors, including agriculture, climate change, logging and the depletion of freshwater resources.
Brian G. Dowling

What Next for the Millennium Development Goals? - 0 views

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wiley millennium development goals mdgs

shared by Brian G. Dowling on 11 Jul 10 - No Cached
  • Brian G. Dowling on 11 Jul 10
     
    From the article: It is just about time for yet another round of international development goals. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - the eight goals, 20 targets and 60+ indicators that came out of the United Nations in 2000 - are coming to the end of their natural life. Although the official end date is not until 2015, if your country is not close to reaching the MDGs now, there is simply not much time to catch up. (Helpfully, the UN's MDG Monitor website counts down to 2015 by the second.)
Brian G. Dowling

Committment to Global Food Security Sadly Lacking - 1 views

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FAO ONE AVAAZ change.org Food Security mdg1 UN

shared by Brian G. Dowling on 03 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Brian G. Dowling on 03 Jan 10
     
    I am going to be more outgoing (the word that more naturally arises is pushy) in support of the Millennium Development Goals by including posts from my blog Milestones for A New Millennium. This post is on Food Security. Give me a shout if you think that this is not a good idea.
Brian G. Dowling

United Nations Non-governmental Liaison Service - 0 views

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nations change-agent millennium development goals mdgs

shared by Brian G. Dowling on 03 Apr 10 - Cached
  • The United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) is an inter-agency programme of the United Nations mandated to promote and develop constructive relations between the United Nations and civil society organizations.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 03 Apr 10
     
    Objectives The United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) was created in 1975 by several agencies of the United Nations system to serve as a bridge between the UN and civil society organizations. It was established on the belief that meaningful civil society engagement in UN processes and deliberations is essential for the realization of the goals of the Organization and the pursuit of global democratic governance. The goal of NGLS is to strengthen the relations between the United Nations and civil society. Given its distinctive UN inter-agency nature, NGLS is uniquely placed to foster dialogue and greater coherence around the main issues on the UN agenda (development, human rights, environment, peace and security, and humanitarian affairs).
Benno Hansen

Euroalert.net - News about the European Union - 0 views

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EU biodiversity

shared by Benno Hansen on 20 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • biodiversity and the ecosystem services we get for free from nature are preserved, valued and, insofar as possible, restored for their intrinsic value, enabling them to support economic prosperity and human well-being, and averting any catastrophic changes linked to biodiversity loss
Benno Hansen

EU postpones by a decade plans to stop extinctions : Nature Environment - 0 views

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biodiversity EU endangered species

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  • the EU will have to bring in much stricter rules on protecting rare species and habitats and enforce them much more efficiently, ministers agreed
  • the extinction of animals and plants and the destruction of their habitats costs around 50 billion euros (69 billion dollars) a year worldwide
Brian G. Dowling

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

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mdg7 MIT sustainability environmental 350

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.
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