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2014-03-11 20:49:14     About « The Restart Project

http://therestartproject.org/about/

The Restart Project is a London-based social enterprise ... empowers people to use their electronics longer, by lear... repair and maintenance skills.
Through community and workplace events we create engagin ...
Electronic waste is one of the fastest gr

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2013-02-19 07:45:23     Arctic Death Spiral Bombshell: CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice Volume Has Collapsed | ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/...ea-ice-volume-has-collapsed/?...

The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched b... but equally sharp, drop in sea ice thickness. The combin... a collapse in total sea ice volume — to one fifth of i...
Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via ...

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2012-07-18 18:13:16     Empowering Technology: Mobile Phone Access Reaches Three Quarters Of Planet’s Population

http://www.dailymarkets.com/...arters-of-planets-population/

The World Bank and infoDev released a study yesterday ti...
“Around three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants no ...
Here’s an excerpt from the Executive Summary:
“With some 6 billion mobile subscriptions in use world ...
The developing world is

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2010-10-14 20:50:35     Data | The World Bank

http://data.worldbank.org/

The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 ...

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2012-10-02 10:32:22     Future Perfect » Thoughts on Rural Research

http://janchipchase.com/2012/07/thoughts-on-rural-research/

This article summarises the issues in conducting corpora... research in rural locations covering logistics to resear... communities are far from homongenous.

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2013-12-28 12:09:50     The ‘penny-drop moment’: building political leadership for radical emission reduction | green alliance blog

http://greenallianceblog.org.uk/...dical-emission-reduction/

This post is by Rebecca Willis, independent adviser on e... sustainability and Green Alliance associate, working wit... Leadership Programme. This is a shortened version of her... presentation to the Tyndall Centre’s Radical Emissions... conference.

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2011-09-12 11:26:44     Arctic sea ice is melting at its fastest pace in almost 40 years | Environment | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...tic-ice-melting-at-fastest-pace

This year, both the North-west and North-east passages w...
Last month, the 74,000-tonne STI Heritage tanker passed ...
The north-east sea route, which links the Atlantic to th ...
Further evidence of dramatic change in the Arctic came l ...
... ear (20

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2013-10-12 17:22:31     Vinay Venkatraman: Technology crafts for the digitally underserved | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/...fts_for_the_digitally_underserved.html

Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the lates... local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech us... Vinay Venkatraman explains his work in "technology craft... mobile phone, a lunchbox and a flashlight can become a d...
Vinay Venka

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2010-11-13 20:53:03     Living On One Dollar-A-Day - Home

http://onedollaraday.weebly.com/index.html

Understanding the reality of poverty is the critical ste... problem. Time and again, microfinance has been proven to... effective method of combating poverty. With the goal of ... to the reality of living on a dollar a day and helping t...
To achieve

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2017-02-02 15:37:54     MacKay | Serendipity

http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?s=MacKay

We started from the question of how to take “back of t... calculations and make them explicitly shareable over the... shareable, but to turn them into structured objects that... updated, linked to evidence and so on (in much the same ... entries are

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2012-12-10 20:08:27     Official Google Africa Blog: Understanding barriers to mobile Internet adoption in Kenya and Ghana

http://google-africa.blogspot.co.uk/...rriers-to-mobile.html

While mobile phones have become commonplace, mobile Inte... lagged. In 2011, for instance, mobile Internet adoption ... compared to 54% in Europe. We’ve been working to bette... nature and root causes of this dynamic. Earlier this yea... with iHub R

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2014-01-10 16:50:04     The Coming ‘Instant Planetary Emergency’ | The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/...ing-instant-planetary-emergency

William Greider: Will It Matter That Janet Yelle...
Dave Zirin: Chris Kluwe, Aaron Rodgers and LGBT ...
John Nichols: Five Reforms to Make Democratic Po ...
A Look Back at the Year in Crazy, Part Two
... entists predict i

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2010-11-17 11:19:23     Wind Power Q&as · News · Sustainable Development Commission

http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/news.php/8.../wind-power-qas

Wind power produces no harmful emissions of carbon dioxi... to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions from electricity ...

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2014-01-10 16:32:10     Windbelt, Cheap Generator Alternative, Set to Power Third World - Popular Mechanics

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/so.../4224763

Working in Haiti, Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old inventor b... View, Calif., saw the need for small-scale wind power to... and radios in the homes of the poor. Conventional wind t...
Frayne's device, which he calls a Windbelt, is a taut me ...
Frayne hope

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2011-04-05 08:16:47     IBM Research | | arun_kumar | WWTW - The World Wide Telecom Web (a.k.a. The Spoken Web)

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/.../arun_kumar.wwtw.html

WWTW - The World Wide Telecom Web (a.k.a. The Spoken Web)
The World Wide Telecom Web (also referred to as The Spok ...
The World Wide Telecom Web
Past and Present Collaborators:
... Related Publications are available here

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