World 2033 Forum

05/26/2013

AFRICA'S SOIL DIVERSITY MAPPED FOR THE FIRST TIME --> Atlas drawn up by international experts aims to expand understanding of soil and how Africa can manage it sustainably.

Source:http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/library/maps/africa_atlas/Documents/JRC_africa_soil_atlas_part1.pdf

05/24/2013

Economic growth will not reduce poverty, improve equality and produce jobs unless it is inclusive. Inclusive growth is also essential for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The globalization process, when properly managed, becomes an important ingredient for inclusive growth. In this context, UNDP works to make real improvements in people’s lives, opening up their choices and opportunities.

Source: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/povertyreduction/overview.html

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05/16/2013

LAST CALL ---> the untold reasons of the global crisis. A documentary film on the saga of the most controversial environmental bestseller of all times. Today its message is more relevant than ever.

05/14/2013

“As society is an unlimited reservoir of productive potential, each individual member is an infinite with unlimited power to think, create, discover, invent, and initiate actions that enhance the power and direct the destiny of the collective. Thus, one individual can change the world.”
Source: ORIO GIARINI, IVO ŠLAUS, GARRY JACOBS
http://www.cadmusjournal.org/article/issue-4/human-capital

Society is a teeming ocean of human energies and capacities, unorganized but latent with unlimited productive potential. The organization of social energies and capacities converts social potential into Social Capital. Each member of society is a microcosm of human potential – an unorganized reservo...

05/11/2013

A permanent solution to the global employment challenge demands a radical change in ideas and values. We must recognize that people – human capital – are the most precious of all resources which must be preserved and enhanced at all cost. People are not only the source of all the ideas, products, technologies and discoveries that have directed human development; they also constitute the ultimate purpose of that development. A human-centered theory of economics must place people first, while fully recognizing that humanity forms an integral part of the natural system.

SOURCE: Ian Johnson, Garry Jabobs: Crises and Opportunities: A Manifesto for Change (CADMUS, Volume 1, No. 5, October 2012, 11-25)

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05/08/2013

Did you know that approximately three billion persons around the world eat daily meals cooked with fuel consisting of wood, twigs, agricultural waste, animal dung, and charcoal?!
http://thesolutionsjournal.com/node/2371

Approximately three billion persons around the world eat daily meals cooked with fuel consisting of wood, twigs, agricultural waste, animal dung, and charcoal. They cook in diverse ways with diverse foods in diverse pots across many cultures, often on three-stone fires. A three-stone fire refers to…

05/05/2013

THE HIDDEN RISKS OF ENERGY INNOVATION ----> Advocates of tackling climate change through innovation are at risk of dangerously overreaching at home and abroad; a more modest program could produce better results.
More on http://www.issues.org/29.2/Michael.html.

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04/21/2013

As energy requirements become more pressing, the need for a more efficient system via which to control electricity is being worked on by a number of companies. Smart grids act as a more flexible and customisable control system for how electricity is used, as well as offering both price and security benefits.

Graphene, with its diversity of interesting properties, has been heralded as technology’s next big thing. But, nearly a decade after its discovery, are bendy phones all this material can offer?

04/19/2013

Why can't we quit fossil fuels?
Despite the clean technology of the past decade, we continue to extract and burn fossil fuels more than ever before.

Despite all the mounting scientific concern, the political rhetoric and the clean technology of the past decade, the growth rate in global carbon emissions has not reduced at all. Why? Because we continue to extract and burn fossil fuels more than ever before, reports Duncan Clark

03/25/2013

Research has shown how tiny particles from vehicle emissions can cause heart disease and other problems.
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Scientists find that air pollution is even worse for you than previously thought. As this ScienCentral News video explains, new research shows how tiny parti...

03/19/2013

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. Organisms that have been genetically modified include micro-organisms such as bacteria and yeast, insects, plants, fish, and mammals. GMOs are the source of genetically modified foods, and are also widely used in scientific research and to produce goods other than food. The term GMO is very close to the technical legal term, 'living modified organism' defined in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which regulates international trade in living GMOs (specifically, "any living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology").
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd_X1-moZkc

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. Organisms that have been g...

03/15/2013

Our contemporary world is so dependent on technology fueled by oil, and yet oil will not last forever. How will the world change and how will people adapt as food disappears, electrical power fails? Witness the devastation in major cities as winter sets in. What will be more important to our survival; the technology to develop new sources of energy, or a change to a more sustainable way of life?

Aftermath: World Without Oil [720p] Our contemporary world is so dependent on technology fueled by oil, and yet oil will not last forever. How will the world...