The Population Media Center addresses issues stemming from the world’s burgeoning population. According to their site the global population is growing by nearly 80 million people per year. "While population growth rates have slowed since their peak in the 1960s, the numbers being added to the population each year continue to be huge, in part because of the growth in the numbers of people of reproductive age. At current rates of birth and death, the world’s population is on a trajectory to double in 49 years."

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An interesting group working to protect rainforests.

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Dan Walker's Travel Website - read about a guy who has visited every sovereign county in the world.

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Find or upload videos about "your interests and hobbies, eyewitness accounts of recent news and distant places, and everything else from the strange to the spectacular" on Daily Motion.

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warm glow of polished silver
rising from her skin
softens night's hard edge

winter night on black river
car speeds
hungry she unbuckles my belt

portable phone in her ear
fingers between legs
teledildonics

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Erotica, Poetry and Art. The human comedy in erotic haiku by Marc Zegans with gestural drawings by Gabrielle Senza from g.spot press

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As they say on their site, "Geekcorps’ international technology experts teach communities how to be digitally independent by expanding private enterprise with innovative, appropriate, and affordable information and communication technologies."

Jeffrey Sacks in his article A Global Coalition of Good describes Geekcorps thus:

"Geekcorps is, well, just what it says. Its Internet-age volunteers bridge the digital divide one network at a time in the villages of the low-income world. They train people in information and communications technologies and advise them on starting businesses using these new skills. Working in Timbuktu and beyond, Geekcorps relies on its "Desert PC," specially designed for the low electricity access and high temperatures and dust of the Sahara."

The Geekcorps site contains success stories and a list of their current volunteer programs.

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In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and director of MIT's Media Lab started the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) target="blank" foundation. The vision is to give every child on the planet a laptop.

The program has received a lot of press recently.

Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes piece, “What If Every Child Had a Laptop” conveys Negroponte's inspired dream.

Virginia Heffernan in her article "Children’s Crusade" in the New York Times Magazine writes,

"The XO was designed, with much fanfare, for One Laptop Per Child, the marvelously hubristic organization created by the M.I.T. new-media guru Nicholas Negroponte to equip two billion children in poor countries with a means to educational salvation. In October, Negroponte presented the laptop at the Vatican to an audience of Roman Catholic schoolteachers and nuns. He stressed that his laptop would not run programs like Word, PowerPoint or Excel. When third-world kids use mainstream office software, he said, “that breaks my heart most.” Instead, he went on, “the children should be making things, they should be sharing things, they should be creating music, creating pictures, making videos, playing with mathematics, accessing the Internet.”

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A friend of mine emailed this to me. The authors of this project are Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio. I encourage you to visit their site to check out their other great photography and photo projects -
menzelphoto.com.

All photos below are ©Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com; from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. Ten Speed Press.

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VBS.tv - an online broadcast network, streaming free and original content. Spike Jonze (director of Adaptation and Being John Malkovich) is their creative director. They feature news, music and underground culture coverage. Check out their "Toxic Brooklyn" show.

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BoingBoing.net has launched a daily online TV show. You can see three-to-five-minute daily reports at tv.boingboing.net

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Great site that teaches you how to make video podcasts

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Here's something that might be helpful to some of you.

The VLC media player - a cross-platform media player

Check out our site for more such resources.

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Bioinitiative.org offers the BioInitiative Report that sheds light on this question.

"You cannot see it, taste it or smell it, but it is one of the most pervasive environmental exposures in industrialized countries today. Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) or electromagnetic fields (EMFs) .... . Based on new studies, there is growing evidence among scientists and the public about possible health risks associated with these technologies."

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I got this note from Jenna Higgins of the National Biodiesel Board:

"Tonight Show host and auto expert Jay Leno features biodiesel in a video of his recent meeting with National Biodiesel Board (NBB) CEO Joe Jobe at Jay's garage in California. On his Web site, jaylenosgarage.com, Leno describes his use of biodiesel in his Eco Jet concept car, his motorcycle as well as the New Holland tractor that he uses to move his famous car collection. Thanks to the New Holland Company, winner of NBB's 2007 Innovation Award, for their ongoing work to promote biodiesel to Leno and others. "

Watch the video in Jay Leno's Garage

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The adventurer Roz Savage who has rowed across the Atlantic alone is now embarking on rowing her boat, the Brocade, from San Francisco to Australia, by way of Hawaii and Tuvalu.

In a recent profile in Yahoo Picks she talks about how she keeps up her web site while at sea.

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Check out the 2007 Audio/Video Library of the Aspen Ideas Festivals -- available in a variety of viewable and downloadable formats, including short excerpts.

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Read more about this activist for environmental justice.

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Trippy....

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Ava Lowery, an amazing 16-year-old peace activist, is reaching millions with her Web site PeaceTakesCourage.com

Read an article about her on MTV.com

Watch some of the videos she's making. Many more are on her site!

Bring 'Em on Home

How This Must End

Still Doesn't Get It

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Looking for something lost in cyberspace? Don't have enough current information to sift through?

Now you can surf the more than 10 billion pages stored in this site's Web archive. Enter the URL, click Take Me Back, and watch the Way Back Machine find it for you. Even if the search is unsuccessful, this archive locator will promise to find the lost site on its next crawl.

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Benetech Bookshare.org claims to be the world's largest accessible online library. They give print disabled people in the United States legal access to over 32,750 books and 150 periodicals that are converted to Braille, large print or text to speech audio files.

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Women in Art (Well...pretty Caucasian women in art.)

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Hilarious.

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Mark Gibbs posted this intriguing piece to his blog.

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FunnyOrDie.com is a new comedy site created by comedian Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s company, Gary Sanchez Productions and Sequoia Capital.

Laura Holson at the New York Times wrote a story about them today - Comedy Business Turns to the Web (Requires free registration).

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Here's an interesting article by Sarah Rich on WorldChanging.com about an extraordinarily successful greening of the Jordanian desert project led by permaculture designer, Geoff Lawton.

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Sending out a newsletter? Worried it might get blocked by SPAM filters?

The Programmers Heaven SPAM analysis tool runs your message through SPAM checkers to see if they might detect it as SPAM.

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I received an email from TED about this exciting news -- EO Wilson's The Encyclopedia of Life is launched.

From their site:

"Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Our goal is to create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike. To transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating all known data about every living species. And ultimately, to increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity."

Here's their press release: "A Leap for All Life: World’s Leading Scientists Announce Creation of “Encyclopedia of Life”

Go here to watch EO Wilson's speech at TED.

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