World Systems @ KSU

Impromptu Demo of OLPC's Children's Machine (aka $100 dollar laptop for the Third World) by Håkon Wium Lie

This article focuses on climate change problems that are directly affecting the South America area. Due to destruction of tropical rainforest, which is an issue we discussed on Friday during class, there are at least 15 species of birds that are being endangered.

This website has an interactive map that allows users to see potential problems that the climate change is causing globally.

One Laptop Per Child video as seen on 60 minutes (1 of 2).

This is a great website that has a bunch of different programs how U.S. Doctors can help with the low health care in AFrica.

This is a map showing the top ten countries by most patient per doctor. A good statistic for our presentation.

The earth's core is very hot!  If we can tap into this renewable source of energy, we will be able to satisfy a large chunk of our energy needs while simultaneously cutting down emissions and pollution dramatically.

The UN exhibits its huge problem with child warfare

child soldier threatens to go back to the army because he was not being able to reintegrate himself back in his old community

Africa Asia and South America pledge not to use children as soldiers

What can we do to make our homes better?  This article provides us with a few simple steps that can make our homes more efficient, which, amazingly enough, not only creates enormous benefits for us, but also helps to protect the environment.

This site describes the causes and effects of Global Warming.

I thought this site was neat

Provides a brief overview of the UNFCCC and what has been discussed at it's annual conferences.

This page describes the details involving the controversy surrounding Global Warming.

On the political side of global warming, nearly all Democrats realize that global warming is, in fact, a real problem while their counterpart Republicans deny this reality. According to the article, "In the United States, a February 2007 survey found that 95% of the 41 Congressional Democrats surveyed agreed 'it's been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Earth is warming because of man-made problems' while only 13% of the 31 Republicans surveyed agreed." And, although the U.S. has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, 195 U.S. cities have pledged to reduce carbon emissions.