Globaïa :: portfolio - 1 views
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Scott Aughenbaugh on 28 Oct 11This is a really interesting series of projects that have a lot of overlap with seven revolutions. Lots of neat interactive presentations, images, and video.
Seven Billion - 2 views
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This New York Times article describes the implications of achieving a global population of seven billion people and examines the possibilities for population growth and related issues into the future.
Alternative energy won't make our future look all that different | Slate - 2 views
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This article arises from Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture.
Overview of water shortage/usage in 21st century | CNN - 7 views
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This quick article has some nice graphics about global water issues
Ten Things You Should Know About Nanotechnology | NanoWerk - 2 views
Nanotechnology Risks | NanoWerk - 0 views
Satellite Pictures Show How Cities Grow Over Time - 1 views
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Cities across the world are rapidly growing in response to urbanization. Satellite photos show how cities such as Dubai, Cairo, Las Vegas, Jakarta, Chengdu, Sacramento, and Calgary have grown over the course of a decade.
Demographics of Aging - 2 views
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This site discusses the growing elderly population in the U.S. and around the world. It also describes why this is happening, and how gender and racial trends are related to an aging population.
Stan's Cafe Theatre Company: Of All The People In All The World - 1 views
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Of All The People In All The World uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract population statistics to startling and powerful life. Each grain of rice represents one person, and piles of rice make up the populations being displayed.
If the world's population lived in one city… - 3 views
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This site represents the land area necessary if the population of the world were as dense as various cities.
Water wars: 21st century conflicts? | Al Jazeera - 2 views
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Click on the water conflict map to see some of Al Jazeera's coverage of an issue which could define 21st century strife After droughts ravaged his parents' farmland, Sixteen-year-old Hassain and his two-year-old sister Sareye became some of the newest refugees forced from home by water scarcity.
Drone Warfare in Pakistan | NPR - 3 views
A New (Underclass) of Travellers | The Economist - 1 views
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Victims of a warming world may be caught in a bureaucratic limbo unless things are done to ease-and better still, pre-empt-their travails
India's Corruption Problem | Foreign Affairs - 0 views
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Recent anti-corruption protests have managed to stoke anger among significant segments of India's electorate. The current government will not be able to fend it off without making some tangible concessions, such as extending the scope of the anti-corruption bill currently under discussion in India's parliament.
Problems Will Be Global--And the Solutions Will Be, Too | Foreign Policy - 4 views
The Truth About al Qaeda | Foreign Affairs - 0 views
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New information discovered in Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan suggests that the United States has been vastly overstating al Qaeda's power for a full decade. The group appears to have spent more time dodging drone strikes and complaining about money than trying to get an atomic bomb.
Success Without Victory | The Atlantic - 0 views
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America won the Cold War because Americans embraced a set of strategic principles and pursued them steadily, decade after decade. Here's the outline of a "containment" strategy for the age of terror.
Global Corporate Citizenship | Foreign Affairs - 1 views
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Global corporate citizenship means that companies must not only be engaged with stakeholders but be stakeholders themselves alongside governments and civil society. Since companies depend on global development, which in turn relies on stability and increased prosperity, it is in their direct interest to help improve the state of the world.
Fighting viruses, defending the net | TED Talk - 0 views
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