Archive for the 'Activism' Category



the globally-minded desktop

If you would like a socially and ecologically responsible desktop check out these two websites:

Worldwildlife.org - eco-friendly wallpapers
Povertyticker.com - socially-humbling screensaver

Please use these as reminders of our great responsibility to our beautiful and dying earth and our suffering fellow humanity.

Tags: Earth, povertyEarth, poverty

Not too long ago I watched CNN Presents “The End of AIDS” and was pleasantly surprised to see Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviewing President Clinton on his thoughts regarding his vision of a world without AIDS. After watching the airing I made my way to the Clinton Foundation’s website and learned a little more about the […]

This is perhaps the best thing that Bush has done during his second term as the President. We thank you. You had no poll-bettering reason to do this, and yet you did.
President Bush will create the world’s largest protected marine area today, designating as a national monument a 1,200-mile-long chain of small Hawaiian islands and […]

$100 laptop working model

Negroponte’s dream is close to reality. Check out the sites below to read more and see some images of the real thing:
eWeek.com .:. Working Model of $100 Laptop Steals MITX
laptop.org .:. On Laptop per Child website (images)
I’ve been a fan of this project since it’s inception (or at least since I knew about it).

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Net Neutrality

From Google’s blog:
The debate over “net neutrality” is coming to a boil in the next week as the House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill that could determine the future of the Internet. The big phone and cable TV companies want Congress’s permission to create a new, unprecedented regulatory bureaucracy on the […]