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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. . By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. social tools + people = lives saved. .

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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

ASU Lodestar Center

Poverty in these countries is defined as falling short of food, not being able to send children to school, having limited or no access to safe drinking water, living in unstable houses and, perhaps worse, feeling powerless as the conflicting or corrupted governments don’t offer any means to get out of poverty 3. in 2010 alone.

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Cultivating Food Entrepreneurs: Interview with Patricia Loya of La Cocina

Have Fun - Do Good

It's always their choice, but oftentimes the women are really shocked that they can buy organic local products for the same price, or less than what they're spending on products that aren't organic. You've got Mexican food from Mexico City, Mexican food from the Yucatan area, Japanese snack food. That's totally exciting.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2014 - The Green Issue

Tech Soup

This is a fresh change because ever since the economic downturn of 2008-09, Americans have invariably chosen economic growth over the environment, except for immediately after the BP oil spill in May 2010. for poor people without electricity in Mexico. The Big UN Report on Climate Change. The device did well on Kickstarter.

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Steve Bridger

I just read the news for today at my local newspaper’s online addition. I empathize with your mothballing Mexico and consider that a possible option of my own. J Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 7:41 am | Permalink Steve Andrews wrote: Fabulous article, Steve. All there was to read was who got robbed, killed, raped, etc.

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