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Canadian child stands up to oil giant
Canadian Ta’Kaiya Blaney may only be 10, but she’s also a great environmental teacher. In early July 2011, this Sliammon First Nation activist stood outside Enbridge Northern Gateway’s office to hand-deliver an envelope containing an important message about the company’s proposed pipeline construction.
Tributes pour in for Wangari
Africa’s first woman Nobel Peace Prize recipient has died of cancer. Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan ‘green’ warrior who educated the world about the importance of trees, founded the Green Belt movement as far back as the 1970s, in order to combat environmental and societal conditions that perpetuate poverty in her home country.
Japan’s people set example to school children; say no to nuclear power
The impact of the 11 March 2011 crisis in Japan, when a tsunami caused core meltdowns at three reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex, has made itself felt.
Bishops’ ‘White House’ goes solar
Bishops Diocesan College in Cape Town recently implemented an energy efficient hot water solution at its White House boarding facility. The result? Seventy percent savings in the consumption of electricity needed for hot water.
Free laptops project in Tamil Nadu under fire
Handing out free resources will not necessarily improve education, yet this has not stopped government ministers in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu from planning to give away 6.8 million laptops to schoolchildren.
New web app to combat malnutrition
Millions of children in the Horn of Africa are the helpless victims of malnutrition, and old interventions are simply not working. In a bid to stop millions of people dying, the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched a webpowered tool to provide governments and civil society groups around the world with up-to-date guidelines to fight malnutrition.
A supercomputer for the Lone Star State, USA
One of the most powerful computers in the world is soon to be built at the Texas Advanced Computing Centre (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin.
Missouri moves to make online friendship illegal
Missouri’s emergence as the first in the nation to make it illegal for students and teachers to be Facebook ‘friends’, has caused a hullabaloo.
Student blogger in the clink in Thailand
In late August this year, a Business Administration graduate from Kasetsart University in Thailand was arrested because of his online blog posts.
Inaugural Information Technology showcase at St Benedict’s College a great success
In late September this year, St Benedict’s College hosted its first Information Technology (IT) showcase.
